Founding Product Designer

About Aravis

We are building a vertically integrated, AI-native property operations and financial services business serving landlords and tenants. Letly runs rental homes end to end; Aravis is building the accounts, payments and finance around those relationships.

We build the software and run the operation to make homes radically easier and cheaper to own, run and finance. We're a small, AI-native team in London, building for global scale.

The role

You'll own product design for Aravis, with a particular focus on exceptional UX as we rethink how people engage with their finances. Working directly with the founders, product owners and engineers, you'll turn complex financial tasks into clear, coherent experiences.

You'll take work from understanding the problem through to production, owning the journeys, interactions and details that help customers understand their money and act with confidence.

What you'll own

• Discovery: understand customer needs through conversations, observation and product data. Identify the underlying problem before designing the solution.

• UX design: define information architecture and journeys across onboarding, accounts, payments, cards and lending.

• Interaction design: make choices, costs and product states understandable, including errors, delays and recovery.

• Prototyping: explore alternatives, test important assumptions with customers and refine designs before committing to implementation.

• Delivery: produce clear, buildable designs, work through details with engineers and personally review the shipped experience.

• Product improvement: use completion rates, errors and customer feedback to improve usability and develop consistent patterns across the product.

How we build

Product, design and engineering work together from problem definition through release. We test important assumptions early, reuse strong patterns and refine the experience in production.

AI is central to how we work. You'll use it extensively for research synthesis, exploration and prototyping, while exercising your own judgement and verifying the result.

What we're looking for

• Experience owning product design end to end, with a portfolio of shipped work that explains your decisions and results.

• Exceptional UX judgement: you can organise complex information, simplify journeys and anticipate where customers will struggle.

• Strong research and usability testing skills, with evidence that your findings improved the product.

• Fluency in Figma, interactive prototyping and design systems.

• Strong attention to product language, accessibility and visual clarity.

• The ability to understand technical and commercial constraints and work through them with product owners and engineers.

• Clear communication: you explain trade-offs, respond thoughtfully to feedback and take responsibility for the quality of what ships.

Experience with financial products or similarly complex customer journeys is useful.

How we work

• Agency: we move fast, own outcomes, and take responsibility for our work end to end.

• Craft: we go deep on problems and build with care, down to the smallest detail.

• Intensity: we outwork our competition and continually raise our team’s talent density.

• Ambition: we pursue big goals and push ourselves to solve the hardest problems.

We work together in our London office and expect a high baseline commitment of time, energy and focus. Sustained intensity is an essential part of how we will win.

Our process

We aim to complete the interview process in under a week.

1. Introduction: 30 minutes with the CEO.

2. Portfolio and UX experience: 45 minutes with the CEO.

3. Problem solving: 60 minutes with the CEO and CTO.

4. Learning and ambition: 45 minutes with the CEO.

5. References and offer: a decision in days.

Benefits

Private health insurance, paid gym membership, three meals a day in the office, and Ubers home on late nights.