smartIBAN · Full-time

UX Obsessed Product Designer

Remote·Europe

1 unique Product Designer = You. 1 million unique invoices = 1 million unique IBANs

Do you hate dinosaur banks? Good - we do, too. Keep reading. Here’s our reason: the tech to make payments instant, cheap and actually built for people already exists. Banks have it. They just don't use it for the ordinary person. As a neobank for gig-economy and payment methods, our mission is to make SEPA payments cheap, fast and programmatic for humans and robots. And everything executed with an effortless UX we already get from tapping a card, but brought to account-to-account payments. We are not just another fintech company. We’re building something hard and uncommon. The kind of product people assume only big companies with big floors and bigger committees get to build. We see the fintech industry as a giant box of Lego: the pieces are all there and we are here to build them into something people actually love using. That takes the right people, not the most people. We're small, fast and allergic to corporate fintech theater. If that sounds terrifying, this isn't for you. If it sounds like Tuesday, keep reading.

The role:

Our clients trust us with something they trust almost no one with: their money. That's the whole job. Not "make it pretty", but make it feel safe, obvious and calm at the exact moment someone is about to move their money, approve a payment or trust a number on a screen. In fintech, a confusing button isn't a bad UX metric. It's a person deciding we're not worth it. We need a UX Obsessed Product Designer who feels that weight and gets a little obsessed with getting it right. Someone who's designed a product from zero to a million users and knows the difference between a UI that looks good and UI that actually makes the product work. Someone who can look at a problem and know whether it's a standalone feature, a fix to an existing flow or an entire product hiding behind a feature request and designs accordingly.

What you’ll actually do:

You'll own product design end-to-end. Not "hand off wireframes." Own it.

  • Make decisions on either it’s a standalone product, a feature or something that needs to be added or even better, to be removed. Good product design improves the product by removing something and not stacking more on.
  • Take a fuzzy problem, like "onboarding drops off" or  "people don't trust the transfer screen" and drive it from research to a shipped, high-fidelity experience.
  • Design the hard stuff: dense financial data, dashboards, KYC and compliance flows that today feel like a tax audit and shouldn't.
  • Turn regulation into a design constraint you design around, not an afterthought bolted on at the end.
  • Build and grow our design system so the product stays consistent as we scale, not held together with duct tape and one-off screens.
  • Talk to real users, run tests, watch the metrics and let the data, not your ego, tell you what's working.
  • Sit shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering, product and co-founders. You'll defend your decisions, change your mind when you're wrong and ship either way.

Who we’re looking for:

  • Have shipped real products from research to a live screen (5+ years, but we care about the work, not the number).
  • Have a portfolio that shows thinking, not just screens: the messy problem, your calls and what actually happened after launch.
  • Live in Figma and know how to build a design system, not just borrow one. Borrowing well is a craft. Good Product designers copy the right pieces and build the rest.
  • Can make complex, data-heavy interfaces feel simple without dumbing them down.
  • Move fast, work through ambiguity, and don't need a 12-person team to get things done.
  • Use AI tools to move quicker and prototype an idea instead of just pitching it. And never as an excuse to think less.

Bonus points: you've designed for fintech, banking, payments or investing before, or you're just genuinely curious about money and how people relate to it. If you've never worked in finance but you obsess over craft and clarity, still talk to us. We can teach the domain. We can't teach caring.

Why join us:

  • We're not offering easy. We're offering worth it. If "no one's really solved this before" is the sentence that makes you lean in instead of back away, you'll feel at home here fast.
  • Think and build like a founder, without the risk of doing it solo.
  • Be the voice of user experience at the leadership table.
  • Equity upside in a high-conviction team.
  • Remote-first culture with flexibility and autonomy.
  • Be challenged by a mission with teeth: replace Visa and Mastercard with SEPA without sacrificing the user experience.