Product Designer (FTC)

We are looking for a Product Designer to join our team on a 12 month fixed term contract. Runa is pioneering a first-of-its-kind payment rail that enables seamless, global money movement at scale. Legacy banking and payment infrastructure struggles to support the demands of today's low-volume, high-velocity payouts, leading to inefficiencies in global payouts. Businesses worldwide send over $20 trillion annually in rewards, remittances, and disbursements often incurring costs of up to 50% per transaction and subjecting recipients to lengthy delays.

Runa transforms this landscape by providing a new digital payments infrastructure that empowers businesses to send digital money instantly and cost-free to anyone, anywhere. The Runa API empowers thousands of businesses to make payments to 5 billion+ consumers in 190+ countries instantly to cards, wallets, bank accounts and gift cards. Leading companies such as Sodexo, TopCashback, Perkbox, Sweatcoin, Coinbase, and Globetopper rely on Runa to facilitate instant, flexible global payouts to tens of millions of consumers.

As a Product Designer at Runa, you’ll design experiences at the core of how customers fund, manage, and operate on our platform. You’ll shape how money enters the system, how customers set up and run their accounts, and how we ensure financial data is recorded accurately, securely, and compliantly. Working across the Treasury Team, you’ll own design within this domain, spanning customer-facing journeys and internal operational workflows. Partnering closely with Product Management and Engineering, you’ll navigate complex constraints, influence product direction, and help raise the bar for design across the organisation.

What Excites You

• Being influential and leading design within your team, partnering with Engineering and Product Management to drive impact in your product domain.
• The opportunity to work autonomously and dive deep into your product space, crafting experiences that are innovative, easy to use, and clear, creating experiences you are proud of.
• Evangelising product design and best practices, increasing customer-centricity, creativity, and design quality as part of the wider design team and across the business.
• Elevating product quality by contributing to a globally used payment payout platform that serves millions of users.
• Operating in a fast-moving, evolving environment, embracing ambiguity and helping shape both our product and design culture as we scale.
• Balancing deep user empathy with business understanding, designing for both customer needs and operational efficiency.

What Excites Us

• A well-rounded product designer with strong visual skills, a high level of design craft, and experience designing fintech or payments related products.
• The ability to translate design concepts into production, collaborating with engineering teams to deliver value to customers at the highest level of craft quality.
• Experience collaborating across teams and domains, contributing to broader initiatives that strengthen our overall ecosystem.
• The ability to draw on your full range of Product Design skills to discover, design, and deliver engaging, well-crafted, end-to-end experiences across our platform.
• Curiosity about new tools and technologies that make design work more efficient and scalable.
• Even if you do not meet all of the above requirements but still think you would be a good fit for the role we would still encourage you to apply.

What’s In It For You

• We have a hybrid structure with the requirement of 1-2 days a week at our London Office (Shoreditch High Street).
• £1,000 annual L&D allowance to invest in mastering your craft, including accredited studies. Plus 5 L&D Days per year.
• Runa Reset Days - Runa closes on the first Friday of each quarter for a well-deserved, Reset Day.
• Summer Hours - In the month of August, we log off at 3pm on Fridays.
• Work from anywhere for up to 45 calendar days a year.
• Private Medical + Dental Health Insurance with Bupa.
• Enhanced parental leave for all new parents, up to 16 weeks full pay.
• We are currently working towards salary transparency however we are not there just yet so our talent team will discuss this during the initial call to ensure that the right expectations are given.

Diversity and Inclusion: We are committed to providing a hiring and working experience in which all people feel they are equally respected and valued regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.