Product Design Lead Payment Services
Speedinvest is a European venture capital firm that invests from seed to growth stage (Series B to pre-IPO), backing founders with sector-specific expertise and a large network of operational support. It leads the majority of its initial investments and continues to support portfolio companies through multiple follow-on rounds as they scale.
About Speedinvest
Speedinvest is a pan-European venture capital investor with specialist investment teams organized around core sectors including AI & Infra, Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech & DeFi, Health & Bio, and Marketplaces & Consumer, alongside a dedicated Growth team writing checks from Series B to pre-IPO. The firm emphasizes leading with conviction and long-term capital from day one, leading 85% of its initial investments, participating in 100+ follow-on rounds each year, and backing 70+ Series A companies over the past four years. Speedinvest works with startup founders across Europe and beyond, providing not just capital but network access and growth support, and counts companies like Bitpanda, Moove, cylib, Tide, Gigs, Upvest, and GoStudent among its portfolio.
Skills
About the Role
You will partner with Product Managers, Technical Owners, and senior stakeholders to define strategic objectives, prioritise roadmap opportunities, and set success metrics. You will de-risk initiatives through research, product, and engineering collaboration; deliver tested, validated outcomes incrementally; and monitor customer and operational impact. You will champion design thinking, improve ways of working, and lead and mentor product designers across geographies.
Requirements
- Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in a comparable UX Design or Product Design role
- Experience in a scale-up or start-up SaaS company
- Experience leading a small Product Design squad or contributing to product design and launch in a fast-growing company
- Knowledge of product design methodologies, especially Design Thinking and user-centred design
- Ability to define product strategy and OKRs with Product Management and Engineering
- Proficiency leading design reviews and using Figma
- Experience with user testing and research methodologies
- Experience working in an agile scale-up environment
- Experience using data tools such as Looker, Heap, GA, Hotjar, or similar to inform design
Responsibilities
- Define strategic objectives and goals with Product Managers, Technical Owners, and senior stakeholders
- Identify and prioritise product roadmap initiatives and opportunities
- De-risk initiatives through collaboration with research, product, and engineering
- Define success metrics, expected impact, and outcome measurement
- Deliver tested and validated outcomes incrementally
- Partner with Product Engineering to align delivery with the vision
- Improve ways of working to deliver quality member experiences
- Monitor customer impact and operational success and pivot when needed
- Champion design thinking and member-centric practices with stakeholders
- Lead and mentor product designers across geographies
- Develop a high-performing design team and support career development
- Promote continuous improvement and collaboration across the team
Benefits
- Remote-first work
- 25 days paid annual leave
- 3 additional days for volunteering and learning
- Private Health Insurance
- Mental Health Support Platform
- FitPass
- Family and Friendly Leave according to statutory requirements
- Share options