Functional Designer - Payments Platform

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Functional Designer – Payments Platform 

Salary: Up to £75,000 per annum + Bonus

Swindon/London – Hybrid

As a Functional Designer, you will craft innovative, market driven product designs for a specific vertical that promotes standardisation, maximises value and unified strategies across multiple roadmaps. You will play a key role in shaping seamless user experiences that align with business goals and drive product consistency and impact.

What you will be doing:

• Design and deliver innovative product solutions aligned to business and market needs.

• Translate business goals into functional product designs and capabilities, focusing on services and system to system integrations (typically APIs)

• Embed compliance, security, scalability, and availability into product designs.

• Maintain design standards, style guides, and component libraries.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver effective solutions.

• Create user journeys, process flows, capability maps, and personas.

• Prioritise design activities based on impact, feasibility, and strategy.

• Refine designs using stakeholder feedback and data insights.

• Promote design best practices and ensure consistency across products.

• Ensure designs align with architectural principles and technology standards.

• Stay informed on fintech trends, emerging technologies, and market developments.

• Facilitate workshops, design sprints, and stakeholder reviews.

• Manage shared design assets to support efficient delivery.

• Balance innovation with technical feasibility and delivery timelines.

• Track and analyse design metrics to measure user and business impact.

• This role does not involve UX design

What you will bring:

Essential:

• Experienced Functional Designer or similar role, with a proven track record of delivering technical solutions to market.

• Strong problem-solving skills, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints

• Strong communicator, able to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels, from executives to engineering teams.

• Skilled in setting, tracking, and delivering against key OKRs and KPIs.

• Able to communicate effectively with technical stakeholders and confidently challenge where necessary, ensuring a pragmatic balance between business value and technical best practices.

• Thrives in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities and challenges effectively.

• Able to analyse operational data to gain insights to evidence the approach.

Desirable:

• Experience working with API integrations and microservices within cloud-based environments.

• Knowledge of the payments industry, including payment processing, regulations, and emerging technologies.

Why Edenred PayTech?

We are a subsidiary of the Edenred group and leaders in prepaid solutions including banking, virtual cards, debit, credit, and prepaid processing.

As an Edenred PayTech employee you will get the support and structure that you need to enjoy your work and develop your career while doing what you love and making a difference in a fast-paced and innovative business.

What you will get:

• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays 

• Hybrid working environment (min. 3 days per week in the office)

• Pension Scheme – employer 6% with minimum employee contribution 3%

• Discretionary bonus scheme based on company and personal performance

• Medical & international travel cover (leisure and action sports)

• Life insurance (4x salary)

• Wellbeing Employee Assistance Program (extended access to family members)

• Holiday trading scheme 

• Season ticket loan

• Cycle to Work scheme

• Employee discount shopping platform

• Employee referral bonus scheme

• Digital learning platform

• Complimentary fruit and other ‘in office’ snacks & refreshments

• Volunteering programme

• Social events

Diversity:

Edenred PayTech are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on age, race, colour, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, marital status or civil partnership/union status, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable country or local laws.

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