Senior Product Designer in Manchester

We’re on a mission to protect society from fraud and money laundering. We’ve already protected over 3 million people through life’s big transactions, with a core aim to protect 3.5 million people by the end of 2025. Fraud and regulation are rising, costing the UK economy over £100bn every year; this makes it more difficult for businesses to protect themselves and their clients from fraud and money laundering.

Our co-founders were led to this area when a friend was defrauded of £25K when buying their first property. At the time, anti-fraud technology didn’t exist, which meant that completing the anti-fraud checks required in these processes was largely manual. These big life moments should be exciting, but instead are often confusing and scary due to the painful process of completing these paper-based checks and the risk of fraud.

Thirdfort helps businesses to facilitate these anti-fraud checks so that individuals know they can transact safely and seamlessly with professionals during these big transactions. Our anti-fraud platform provides a secure way for professionals in regulated sectors like Lawyers, Estate Agents and Accountants to transfer funds and verify sensitive information through app-based document checks, facial recognition and open banking. Over 1000 businesses now trust Thirdfort to verify their clients. We are FCA regulated and have raised over $25m in capital from leading Fintech investors.

Design at Thirdfort

Our designers don’t just make things look good—we solve problems that matter. When law firms struggle with 6-month property transactions, we design systems that cut that to 4 weeks. When compliance teams drown in manual processes, we create workflows that feel effortless while meeting regulatory requirements. We ask “why” until we have the ability to bring clarity to the problem space, and deliver an experience that is so simple – it feels like it was always that way.

We’re looking for designers who are creative problem solvers at their core; viewing complex challenges as creative opportunities. You’ll work with stakeholders who understand that good design drives business outcomes, not just user satisfaction. Our team values designers who can articulate design decisions in terms of reduced friction, decreased time to value, improved completion rates, and measurable impact on client success.

As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll own end-to-end design for one of our core product domains while championing the evolution of our design system. You’ll collaborate directly with product managers and engineers in a remote-first environment, with access to our London & Manchester offices for team collaboration. You’ll join a small & focused design team where your voice shapes product direction. We work collaboratively with product and engineering partners who respect design expertise and expect you to own your domain. The Product Experience (Design) team is a hybrid team that gets together 4x per month in the Manchester or London offices.

As a Senior Product Designer, you will:

• Own end-to-end design for a core product domain.
• Take complete design ownership for one of our four product teams (Platform, Identity Risk, Financial Risk, or Business Risk).
• Design complex workflows that guide users through multi-step compliance processes.
• Transform data-heavy risk assessment tools into clear, actionable interfaces.
• Create interface solutions that make sophisticated risk assessment tools feel intuitive.
• Collaborate directly with your PM and engineering counterparts to prioritise, plan & deliver experiences in the right slices.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure technical feasibility and optimal implementation while balancing visual delight + experience.

Contribute to our evolving design system:

• Build reusable components that work across all our platform workflows.
• Establish design patterns that other teams can adopt and extend.
• Document design decisions and rationale for complex scenarios.
• Balance consistency with domain-specific user needs.

Mentor and elevate team design quality:

• Provide design feedback and guidance to other designers.
• Share expertise in complex B2B workflow design.
• Contribute to design critiques and process improvements.
• Take initiative on design process improvements and tool adoption.
• Be an active participant in suggesting new methodologies and tool adoption that helps us to deliver the best outcomes.
• Represent design thinking and customer-centricity across teams in Thirdfort.

Drive user-centered solutions in a regulated environment:

• Conduct user research with law firms, compliance officers, and property professionals.
• Transform complex regulatory requirements into clear user flows.
• Test and iterate on designs that must meet both user needs and legal standards.
• Measure design impact and optimise designs based on real client outcomes and business metrics.

We believe in building a diverse team, valuing different skills and experiences and so if you don’t think you have all the requirements listed here but feel this could be a role and environment you’d thrive in, we would still love for you to apply.

Life at Thirdfort:

Driven by our values, our culture promotes a collaborative and open environment where Thirdforters can take ownership, have impact, and feel empowered when it comes to their growth and development. We understand the importance of our teams' wellbeing and recognise a one-size fits all approach rarely works, that’s why we aim to provide the flexibility individuals need to work in the way that suits them, and their families, best.

Our Benefits:

• Compensation - £80K- £100K p.a. base salary.
• Share options for all employees.
• Flexible Working Hours.
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Customisable wellness budget and £250 WFH Budget.
• Up to 30 days Working from Abroad.
• Uncapped holiday.
• Enhanced sick leave.
• Private healthcare with our provider, AXA.
• Regular company and team socials.
• Uncapped budget for personal development.
• Enhanced employer matching pension scheme with salary sacrifice options.