Senior Design Manager

About the Role

• The Financial Services track is looking for a Senior Product Design Manager to lead its design team as the current design leader transitions into a broader product leadership role.
• This role will be central to raising experience quality across Financial Services, maintaining coherence with the wider SME product, and designing high-converting experiences that contribute to Pennylane's acquisition and revenue goals.
• Our vision is to become the most beloved financial Operating System of French SMEs and Accounting Firms (and soon, European ones).
• We help entrepreneurs rid themselves of time-consuming tasks related to accounting and finance while providing them with access to key financial information to assist in making the best decisions for their business.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead, support, and develop a team of four Product Designers and one first-time Design Manager, all reporting directly to you.
• Coach the Design Manager in building strong management practices, developing team members, and creating the conditions for high performance.
• Set a clear design direction for Financial Services, translating product and business priorities into an actionable experience strategy.
• Raise the quality and consistency of customer experiences across the Financial Services journey while ensuring coherence with the broader SME product.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data, Marketing, and other stakeholders to design experiences that support acquisition, activation, conversion, and revenue objectives.
• Guide designers through complex product challenges, strengthening craft, strategic thinking, customer understanding, and measurable impact.
• Represent Financial Services in cross-functional Brand and Design System initiatives, contributing to shared standards while ensuring that the track’s specific needs are addressed.

What You'll Bring

• Significant experience leading Product Design teams in complex, fast-moving product environments.
• Comfort managing both individual contributors and design managers, including coaching someone through their first management role.
• Ability to define a compelling design direction and connect customer experience decisions with product strategy and business outcomes.
• A strong track record of improving the quality, usability, and coherence of end-to-end digital experiences.
• Understanding of how design contributes to acquisition, activation, conversion, and revenue, and the ability to use qualitative and quantitative insights to guide decisions.
• Ability to deliver and demonstrate measurable results within short cycles without losing sight of long-term experience quality and customer trust.
• Ability to navigate complex product ecosystems and balance local team needs with consistency across a broader platform.
• Ability to build effective partnerships with Product, Engineering, Data, Brand, Marketing, and senior stakeholders.
• Ability to provide clear, actionable feedback and create an environment where designers can grow, challenge ideas, and produce their best work.
• Fluency in French and English.

Nice to Have

• Experience with financial services or another regulated, trust-sensitive product environment.

Compensation & Benefits

• 25 vacation days paid by Pennylane.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Company shares.
• A budget to turn your home into a more comfortable workspace, as well as a monthly allowance to work from a coworking space.
• Access to Gymlib, providing access to 8000 fitness spaces in Europe and more than 300 activities related to wellness.
• Access to Busuu to perfect English or French.
• Latest Apple equipment.
• Ability to work remotely from your country of residence, as long as it is in Europe and within a maximum time difference of two hours from the CET time zone.
• Regular company events such as Tech Days (bringing remote Pennylaners together every 3 months) or an annual company seminar.
• For those based in France: 6 to 12 RTT, 5 weeks PTO, lunch credits (Swile), Alan Blue healthcare cover, and regular events in cities such as Lyon, Bordeaux, and Nantes.

About Pennylane

• Pennylane is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in France and Europe.
• In 5 years of existence, the company has become known as a groundbreaking accounting and financial software for small businesses and their accountants.
• Raised a total of €400 millions, including from Sequoia.
• Grown from 7 cofounders to 1000 employees, with a 4.6/5 rating on Glassdoor.
• International environment with more than 25 nationalities and a strong remote-friendly culture, where 30% of employees work from various parts of Europe.
• Trusted by thousands of customers and accounting firms.
• More than 900,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and over 6000 accounting firms use Pennylane in France.

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