Senior Product Designer - Engine by Starling · Starling

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:16:49 GMT
Design

Starling · London · hybrid

At Engine by Starling, we're on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. We're at an exciting point of our journey, building out a series of mobile SDKs and web portals to delight our clients as we help them bring best-in-class digital banking to customers around the world.

We like to spend our time building products that we're really proud of. We focus on the experience, often delivering things with real polish but sometimes making a fast strategic move. We're always working closely and collaboratively with our product teams and clients to solve problems, build new products and improve existing ones.

As a Senior Product Designer, you'll be able to own the design of products and features, working closely with the rest of the Engine team to design the product, and then staying closely involved as our engineering team builds, helping make sure the outcome is as good as possible.

The Engine team works with clients around the world. Some of the interesting challenges will be balancing the needs of both clients and their customers, creating journeys that work in multiple regions.

Responsibilities:

Lead design work across multiple product areas, solving complex, ambiguous problems with product owners and tech leads.

Anticipating and pre-empting unintended consequences and risks

Own the entire product design lifecycle, from discovery through to delivery, ensuring your work directly impacts the domains goals and desired outcomes

Design the visual and functional experience of our mobile SDKs for your product domains.

Adopt and develop our multi-brand design system to ensure a consistent user experience and unrivaled client configuration

Contribute to our ways-of-working, suggesting improvements and simplifications to team processes

Ensure our products are designed and documented to a standard that enables rapid adoption and meaningful configuration by our clients

Champion design, both internally and externally, demonstrating how best-in-class design can transform banking

Requirements:

5+ years experience as a UX / Product Designer working with design systems, tools, and research platforms (Figma, User Testing etc)

Lots of examples of designing thoughtful, accessible experiences for customers, driving inclusive and accessible design that demonstrates tangible impact for customers and businesses

Accomplished visual design quality

Able to push and evolve our design language to the next level

Experience planning and running various research methods to test and evaluate our ideas

Proactively communicates complex design decisions and strategies persuasively to all audiences and stakeholders.

Anticipates and challenges design decisions that conflict with principles or user safety.

Nice to have:

Experience in a Product Design role for a FinTech or Software Startup / Scaleup

Ideally with mobile design experience

Experience navigating and resolving conflicting requirements between end-users and enterprise clients, making pragmatic design trade-offs that satisfy both user needs and business viability

Practical experience driving adoption, alignment, and maturity of a design system

Extending the system beyond Figma and UI components.

Strong visual craft (illustration, iconography, motion etc), with a desire to define visual standards that help the wider design team maintain standards

Experience leading internal 'communities of practice' to improve a specific area of design maturity (e.g. research, accessibility, or design systems)

Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, or related field (or equivalent professional experience)