Senior UX & UI Designer

Lendo is well established in the Nordics and is looking to grow in Europe and beyond. Multiple markets introduce many opportunities to explore challenging and fun solutions to scaling and automation. _ _

To support the future growth at Lendo, we are currently looking for an outstanding and motivated UX & UI designer. As Global Design is a new discipline at Lendo, you will join a small team and have the chance to shape and advocate the Design culture across the different product and tech teams at Lendo.

In this role, you will

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Create UX & UI designs that will help us strengthen the satisfaction of our customers across different markets (there will be different phases in which it will be more UX or more UI depending on new products and new markets, but overall an equal split between the two)

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Be part of shaping the way of working and process with design in collaboration with product and tech

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Conceptualize solid design solutions with attention to simplicity and user-friendliness

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Lead the work at all visual design stages from concept to finished design, with an eye for details

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Be hands-on in design processes in preparation of sketches, prototyping, and testing

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Participate in defining customer journeys and user stories for new product verticals

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Collaborate with product and tech teams in different markets to create good technical requirements and challenge developers to create great solutions

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Occasionally travel to work closely with the local markets to organize workshops, participate in team activities or specific projects when it is safe and necessary

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Have a direct report to the UX Lead Global

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Share insights and expertise with the UX & UI community across the entire organization

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Work collaboratively with both frontend engineers and designers to maintain and evolve our Design System


What we have been doing for the last six months

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Planned and conducted both quantitative and qualitative customer research for new markets including surveys, user interviews and usability tests

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Migrated our Design System from Sketch+Abstract to Figma as our primary UX/UI design tool to improve work efficiency and design delivery process

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Launched new designs based on our Design System in Austria and Finland

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Redesigned consumer loan product in Portugal of a company acquired by Lendo through M&A

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Created design templates for transactional emails and newsletters to continuously engage our customers

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Worked closely with Data & Security to ensure we adhere to GDPR regulations and promote the importance of user data protection and privacy

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Conducted surveys and workshops to ideate solutions and services around open banking enabled by the PSD2 license

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Set up the Global Design team, design processes and planned OKR’s for 2022

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Team building and improving collaboration between the Global Design team and Sweden’s Design team


Some things we will be doing

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Further set goals and identify design’s vision and long term value for the organization and our customers

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Design, test and build MVP for two new markets in Europe in 2022

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Conceptualize new solutions to build around open banking enabled by PSD2 license

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Continue migration and further UI refinement for 2 new design libraries to be included in our Design System

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Design widgets and landing pages for POS integration to drive traffic from online marketplace to Lendo and increase potential customer’s interests

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Continue to improve and map out the design way of working and product development process

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Organize more team activities and social gatherings to have fun and bring the team closer together!


We offer

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A place for everyone - you are welcome at Lendo for who you are, no matter where you come from or what you look like. Our product is for everyone, and so is our workplace!

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Be a part of the biggest media house company in the Nordics, Schibsted with endless possibilities

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Actively work with a large UX & UI community across Schibsted and share knowledge with other product and technology companies such as FINN.no, VG, MittAnbud, Prisjakt, etc.

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An inspiring workplace with professional development opportunities, internally through Schibsted Learning Lab, LinkedIn Learning or externally through e.g. conferences

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Awesome colleagues at Lendo who enjoy doing team activities, having fun parties, and playing Mario Kart

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We also chip in on your pension and give you extra Schibsted shares for free if you join our share saving plan


____ We believe you have/are

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A team player, who has an open and collaborative mindset who focuses on execution and strikes the right balance between being pragmatic and pushing the boundaries

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Professional experience with UX & UI design projects that have made a difference for the end-users

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2-3 years of experience working inside organizations and/or with consulting experience working with online banking, fin-tech industries or other consumer services

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A deep understanding of user-centered design methods and best practices including research, analytics, and testing

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Practiced working with design as an iterative process, continuously improving and changing

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Experience in driving design processes from insight to prototyping and testing until launch to end-user

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Knowledge and good skills with tools such as Figma, Miro, Adobe XD, Sketch, Invision, and Zeplin

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Good communicative abilities, able to clearly present your ideas for stakeholders through user stories, prototypes, and sketches

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Good analytical skills, making decisions based on insights and data


A background check will be performed before employment.

Lendo is a leading marketplace for loans. We are an international fintech company, founded in Sweden in 2007. In the last couple of years, Lendo has embarked on an exciting global journey launching its innovative product in numerous European countries, including Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Italy and Finland. Our purpose is to empower people to make smart financial decisions that actually make a difference in their lives.