Copy of Senior Product Designer - Identity at Perk

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 [Upgrade to PRO to see link] 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 [Upgrade to PRO to see link] to learn more. At Perk, we build in small, empowered teams that move fast and care deeply about the quality of what they ship. As a Product Designer at Perk you'll own the experience, quality, and vision. You'll uncover real user problems, shape how they get solved, and drive execution with the craft and attention to detail that makes the difference between good and great. You'll work closely with product and engineering to build experiences that are simple, considered, and built to last. As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll partner with a Product Manager and an Engineering Manager to define a 7-star experience for our customers—empowering employees with a frictionless way to pay for their expenses, while giving admins full control and visibility over company spend. What you'll do: Drive high-velocity execution in close collaboration with product and engineering, holding the bar on both craft and speed - Bridge user needs and business goals, making sure design has a clear voice in shaping what gets built and why - Conduct and synthesize user research to deeply understand customer problems, translating insights into clear, intuitive experiences that reduce complexity and guide users toward confident outcomes - Design experiences that help millions of employees and thousands of finance teams seamlessly manage expenses, cards, and invoice processing. - Prototype rapidly using tools like Claude and Cursor to explore interaction patterns early, accelerate decision-making, and shorten the path from idea to shipped product - Stay current on emerging AI trends and product patterns, building a clear point of view on what matters and bringing that perspective into how we design at Perk - Push design practice forward: championing the user inside the triad, contributing to a culture of high craft, and moving toward more iterative, AI-native ways of working What skills are required? - Experience that counts: 5+ years of product design experience at a fast-growing tech company. Experience with Expense Management, FinTech, or SaaS products is a strong plus. - A Sharp eye for UX: You know what makes a great product experience and can design solutions that are both simple and scalable. You are able to set the bar and influence the craft for other designers around you. - Systems Thinker: Comfortable designing within (and contributing to) a design system, balancing consistency with innovation. - Cross-Functional mindset: Skilled at working with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into simple, elegant designs. - Storytelling Skills: Able to clearly communicate the “why” behind your design decisions to inspire your team and align stakeholders. - End-to-end execution: You can take a project from concept to launch, breaking down complexity into deliverables that ship value quickly. - Strong customer empathy and design thinking - Fluency in data, using qualitative and quantitative signals to validate design decisions, measure impact, and inform tradeoffs - Demonstrated ability to influence product direction inside cross-functional teams - Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders and large cross-functional teams - Strong communication and storytelling skills, able to articulate design rationale, tradeoffs, and vision to product, engineering, and senior stakeholders - Passion for AI, shown through hands-on building, prototyping, or side projects, and staying current on research and tools. - Fluency with modern prototyping tools (e.g. Cursor, Bolt, Claude Code) and comfort with design/collaboration environments like Figma and Git. Why You’ll Love Our Team - We are a team of 50 talented Product Designers, Content Designers and Researchers. We like to think of ourselves as high-achievers, goal-oriented, and eager to learn and grow. We foster efficiency through autonomy and creativity through collaboration. - Working in the Product Design team will ensure high-quality design, strategic impact on the product and next-level GIFs 😎 - In the Product Design team, you will find a strong culture of ownership, impact-over-effort and lending support to each other, there are no egos and transparency is highly valued. - We are a heterogeneous team with multiple nationalities and backgrounds, pushing for getting better, having fun and always asking why (of course). - In the next 12 months, we have the challenge to grow our team to almost double its current size, supporting every squad while also scaling our Content and Research functions. What do we offer? - 💰 A competitive compensation package, including equity options in Perk; - 🌴 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays; - 💼 Company Pension Plan with Aviva; - 💊 Private medical insurance from Bupa; - 🙌 Life insurance with Zurich; - 🧘‍ Income Protection + Wellbeing App with Unum; - 🦷 Access to voluntary dental insurance through Bupa; - 🚲 Tax-efficient schemes such as Cycle2Work & electric car leasing via Octopus; - 💪 Discounts on 12-month gym memberships with GymFlex; - 💙Spring Health - Get access to 12x therapy & 12x coaching sessions per year! - a mental health support tool with access to therapists year round; - 🎟️ Access to a wide variety of discounts and rewards; - 🥳 Unforgettable Perk events, including our spectacular annual summer party; - 👶 Parental leave: 12 to 16 weeks, based on eligibility factors; - 🫶 16 paid hours per year to volunteer for a cause of your choice; - 🌎 A ’Work from anywhere’ in the world allowance of 20 working days per year. - 📈 Exponential growth opportunities 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. Protect Yourself from Recruitment Scams All official communication from Perk will always come from email addresses ending in @perk.com [Upgrade to PRO to see link] or @externalperk.com [Upgrade to PRO to see link] our verified social media channels, or recruiters listed on our official LinkedIn page. We will never ask you to pay for equipment, training, or fees, request sensitive personal information such as bank details early in the process, or communicate through unofficial apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal. If you receive a message claiming to be from Perk that seems suspicious, please do not respond. Forward it to security [at] perk .com, and we will confirm whether it is legitimate.