Product Designer (Mid) — 12‑month FTC (Maternity Cover)

Product Designer (Mid) — 12‑month FTC (Maternity Cover)

🌏 Oxford / London / Manchester / Remote

💷 Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme  

⏰ Monday – Friday (37.5 hours per week - hybrid)  

💖 Our perks  

• 🌏25 days holiday (rising to 28 after 3 years’ service) plus bank holidays, to take time to recharge and do something you love. 
• 🤒 Private Medical - via vitality, with reward schemes paid for you and your family.
• 🤒 Health cash plan - via Simply Health for employee's and children claiming money back for dental, optical, etc
• 👍Pension – Oodle will contribute 5% of your salary into your pension pot to help you save for the future
• 🪙Life Assurance - 4 x annual salary - benefit funded by Oodle 
• 🥝Free breakfast, drinks and fruit in the office – you can help yourself to cereals, toast, fizzy drinks and lots of fruit. 
• 🤟Employee discounts – discounts you can access anywhere, anytime for all major shops. 
• 👌1 day volunteer day per year – an opportunity to give back to the community each year.
• ⭐Mental health care – 6 free counselling sessions via our EAP (Employee Assistance Programme). 
• 🤧Paid sick leave – enhanced company sick pay.  
• 👨‍Enhanced family leave – we provide enhanced family leave for primary and secondary caregivers.

🚗 Oodle – who are we? 🚗

Our mission is to empower our customers by delivering simple experiences, straightforward lending products, and compassionate support, from application to final payment – and beyond.

Upgrading. Growing a family. Fresh starts. Big moves. Bumps in the road. - we finance cars, but more importantly, we finance people. Since 2016, we’ve supported tens of thousands of customers on their car buying journey

As an employer, your career is important to us. We’re committed to creating an environment where you can thrive as yourself. We celebrate diversity and inclusion, actively working to make sure every team member feels supported on their journey with us. Our Talent Development team is here to support your growth, providing opportunities for learning, development, and career progression.

🙌 The Role  

We're looking for a mid-weight Product Designer to join our cross-functional product team and own their design projects end-to-end across the customer journey. You'll be embedded in a team alongside product managers and engineers, helping us ship work that’s both well-crafted and commercially meaningful.

This is a 12-month maternity cover contract. 

What You'll Do: 

• Taking design from initial discovery and sketching through to polished, high fidelity UI ready to build
• Working closely with product managers and engineers to understand problems before jumping to solutions
• Running and contributing to user research - and using those insights to validate decisions and iterate
• Designing across web and mobile, with a strong awareness of cross device experience
• Benchmarking fintech and automotive trends to bring informed, relevant thinking to the team
• Presenting your work clearly at different stages, and adapting ideas based on feedback
• Contributing to design quality in the team, joining crits and maintaining a high bar for accessibility and UX
• Supporting the marketing team with design needs including website, email campaigns and presentation decks

Who you are: 

• A strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product experience
• Solid UI, interaction and visual design skills
• Demonstrable commercial experience in a product design role
• Expert level Figma skills, including prototyping
• Clear, organised communication
• A collaborative mindset, you give and receive feedback well, and you’re happy to support the team around you
• Self-motivated and able to manage priorities and deadlines

👩‍💻 Hiring Process  

• ☎️ Preliminary Interview 30 mins
• 📹 Face to Face Interview 1 hour
• 🏢 Final Round 30 mins

💚 Our Values   

Our values are our personal brand and lay the foundation of what we care about the most. They provide us with guidance, so we can work towards the same goals. They are our DNA and are kept at the forefront of our Oodler’s mind when making business decisions.   

• Embrace being human – empathy and diversity make us stronger.  
• Strive for awesome – it’s awesome when we do better every day.  
• Everyone’s a builder – we’re in this together and we win as a team.  
• Bravely honest – we’re honest with ourselves and everyone else.  
• Think customer – they’re at the heart of everything we do. 

To find out more about our culture and what happens at Oodle check out our LinkedIn and Instagram.  

Oodle is proud to be an inclusive workplace and we recognise diversity of experience, thoughts and backgrounds leads to better customer outcomes and an environment where our colleagues can thrive. We have several DEI networks which are made up of our ‘Oodlers’ who strive to make positive impacts to our cultures. 

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