Hybrid Founding Product Designer

at Odin

• Job title: Founding Product Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: £115,000 - £145,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United Kingdom

About the role

• Design leader responsible for shaping Odin's customer experience and brand identity. Leading design culture while preparing for a major US launch in the investment infrastructure sector.

Responsibilities

• Define and elevate the entire customer experience at Odin as we prepare for a major US launch.
• Set the design direction for the company, shape the design culture, and build the systems and practices that future designers will inherit.
• Redesign complex, regulation-heavy workflows and dense UIs into clarity.
• Own the development of our brand identity alongside the founders - expressing the philosophy, ambition and cultural stance of a company that is rethinking what progress means.

Requirements

• 8+ years experience in design, with a strong track record shaping complex products end-to-end.
• In-house experience (not purely agency) with ownership over entire journeys, not just isolated screens.
• Strong in information architecture, interaction design, prototyping, and delivering polished, production-ready UI.
• Demonstrated strength in visual design and high-bar craft: an eye for detail, care for precision, and the ability to enforce quality even at the pixel level.
• Systems thinker who designs with the full workflow in mind - across user actions, emails, automations, permissions, operational steps, and regulatory constraints.
• Experience designing complex, multi-party systems or working in regulated environments.
• Able to run product discovery independently: user interviews, assumption validation, prototypes, usability tests.
• A portfolio showing real business impact-how design improved operations, clarity, conversion, or user experience.
• Numerical literacy and attention to detail, especially for financial or data-heavy products.

Benefits

• Work from anywhere for up to 6 weeks a year
• Private health insurance, paid sick leave (including support for pregnancy loss and fertility treatments), and free access to Spill for mental health support
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, paternity, and partner leave
• 4% pension employer contribution, with salary sacrifice options and NI savings reinvested into your pension
• 25 days of annual leave, 2 wellness days, and flexible bank holidays (33 days total)
• An extra day off to celebrate your birthday