Senior Product Designer

Role Overview

The Senior Product Designer is a people‑manager and senior individual contributor responsible for leading high-quality product design delivery within Clear Score’s platform missions.

You’ll manage and develop a small team of Product Designers while remaining close to the work yourself. This role balances hands‑on design, line management, and delivery accountability, with a strong focus on translating design intent into build‑ready experiences that scale.

Working in close partnership with Product Managers, Engineers, and Platform teams, you’ll help ensure Clear Score’s experiences are clear, consistent, and expertly executed — designed not just for individual features, but for reuse, quality, confidence, and scale across teams.

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• Lead product design delivery
• Lead end-to-end design delivery across one or more squads, from Platform discovery through to launch and iteration
• Translate design intent into coherent, build-ready experiences, resolving UX, interaction, and edge-case decisions before handover
• Maintain high standards of usability, accessibility, and visual quality
• Balance speed and quality, choosing the right level of fidelity at the right time
• Design with reuse, scale, and long-term system health in mind
• Line manage and develop designers
• Line manage a small group of Product Designers (typically IC2–IC4)
• Set clear expectations around quality, consistency, and efficient ways of working
• Coach designers on craft, judgement, and responsible use of AI tools
• Support designers in building confidence, autonomy, and sustainable habits
• Set direction and raise the bar
• Guide design direction within your area, ensuring clarity and coherence across journeys and features
• Facilitate critiques that raise quality and shared understanding
• Role-model strong design judgement and platform-aware decision making
• Maintain quality without compromise, even under delivery pressure
• Partner closely with engineering and product
• Work in strong partnership with Product Managers and Engineers to shape scope, sequencing, and trade-offs
• Collaborate closely with engineers to understand constraints and land feasible, scalable solutions
• Take shared accountability for outcomes, not just outputs
• Communicate design rationale clearly and influence decisions across disciplines
• Enable others and contribute to the wider design community
• Design in ways that reduce friction, rework, and dependency for other teams
• Encourage thoughtful use of AI and automation to remove low-value work across your area
• Support effective use of design systems, DAMs, and content management systems
• Share patterns, guidance, and learnings that help teams move faster with confidence

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer with strong hands‑on capability, people leadership experience, and a platform‑aware mindset.

• Strong experience designing digital products across mobile and web
• Excellent UX, UI, and interaction design skills with high attention to detail
• Figma mastery (non-negotiable), including complex component systems, libraries, variants, and prototyping
• Deep experience working with design systems in scaled product environments
• Knowledge and experience working with Digital Asset Management (DAM) and Content Management Systems (CMS)
• Strong judgement in applying AI tools to improve efficiency while protecting design quality and standards

• Experience line managing designers and supporting their development
• Comfortable setting expectations and influencing how work gets done
• Pragmatic, organised, and accountable for outcomes
• Deep care for quality, clarity, and enabling others to succeed

Clear Score’s mission is to make the world of personal finance clearer, calmer, and easier to understand. We started by giving people free access to their credit score and report — and we’re building far beyond that.

We support over 25 million users globally
, including a fast-growing presence in South Africa. While we operate at…