Product Design Manager - Finance Experience
About Us
Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming, manual work that gets in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we’re on a mission to power real work, with real impact.
We’re trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide, including Wise, On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics, and we’re tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week, a $1.7 trillion problem.
Founded in 2015, Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1,800 people across 12 offices globally, with headquarters in London and Boston. We combine innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work.
At Perk, we’re driven by our values, like being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team. We value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge, to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from the travel and SaaS industries, representing over 70 countries. If you’re excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work, we’d love you on the team.
Visit www.perk.com to learn more.
The Role
Product Design Managers at Perk directly support Product Designers in delivering the best work they can while also working on high-impact strategic design projects.
As a Product Design Manager, you'll oversee the design and delivery of experiences that support the growth and evolution of our platform. You’ll team up with Product and Engineering leads to always keep scope and priorities clear, and to advocate for design and the customer within your area of ownership.
This is a hands-on role: you will be expected to do product design work alongside your team whenever is needed, in addition to your management responsibilities.
You'll help develop the product strategy for a specific Group (of squads) and fine-tune its design approach, while also guiding our product design teams to execute end-to-end user experiences and take a meaningful part in multidisciplinary teams as the design expert.
Focus area: Finance Experience group. You will help shape and deliver experiences across the reconciliation journey for expense data, finance automation that reduces manual processes, ERP integrations (e.g., SAP, QuickBooks, Sage), and our invoice processing tool.
This role reports directly to the Senior Director of Product Design. It is part of the Design Leadership team, shaping how we scale and improve while we grow in size.
What you will do
You will directly line manage a team of product designers (typically 3–6 people), being responsible for their personal and professional development.
Lead and support the Finance Experience group, making sure Product Design is contributing to the strategic goals and translate them into design strategies.
Oversee complex design initiatives spanning multiple workstreams, maintaining a high-quality standard delivery.
Be hands-on in product design work when needed, partnering closely with designers to unblock execution, raise craft quality, and move critical work forward.
Develop partnerships with Product Managers, Engineering Leads to help elevate the voice of Design and advocate for the user within Perk
Effectively communicate design ideas and strategies to stakeholders, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
Collaborate with the wider Product Design team to align the experience, making sure journeys and design patterns across our tools are coherent and consistent.
Drive continuous improvement of design operations by shaping the processes, frameworks, and rituals that elevate the Product Design team to world-class standards.
Influence and support the growth of the team through hiring, networking, and sourcing future team members.
What are we looking for?
8+ years of experience as a Product Designer.
2+ years of experience leading design teams, mentoring designers and helping them progress in their career.
Experience managing a small team (typically 3–6 people) and scaling delivery across multiple workstreams.
Strong B2B SaaS product experience.
Excellent collaboration skills and ability to constructively direct and inspire action within your team. You can successfully push a team to improve the quality of the work they ship.
Solid communication skills (verbal and written). You are comfortable presenting ideas to multiple stakeholders and articulately defending design decisions.
Special talent for breaking down complexity and creating context for others.
Ability to influence product roadmaps working alongside Product Managers and Engineers.
Experience educating, partnering with, building with, and influencing product teams.
Comfort staying close to the work and being hands-on in design when needed.
Experience working in high-growth product companies with an international footprint.
Why you’ll love our team
You’ll join a team of 50 product designers, content designers and researchers, with multiple nationalities, backgrounds and personalities. You will be working in a highly collaborative environment where feedback, transparency, and support are at the core of what we do. We lean on each others strengths and we save competitiveness for the occasional after-work games night.
We value autonomy, proactivity, and creativity. We create time, space, and opportunities for you to think, experiment, and share ideas. And we firmly believe in prioritising impact over effort.
Your career and development are supported by our Competency Framework, with regular development conversations, and our learning and development program. We offer a transparent career path - both for individual contributors and for design managers.
Want to know more? Find us at https://design.perk.com/
How We Work
At Perk, we take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our hubs. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in real life to improve connectivity, productivity, creativity and ultimately making us a great place to work.
For certain roles, we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world, English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. Do not forget to submit an updated portfolio and/or resume.
Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base, and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that. We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means you’re welcome at Perk regardless of how you look, where you’re from, or anything else that makes you, well, you.
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