Design Director

Your mission

You'll lead designers, content designers and researchers working across the cross-functional teams that make up High Volume at Wise. Our personal and business customers move large, often life-defining amounts of money through us: property purchases, payroll, treasury operations, inheritance.

In this role, you'll own the vision and strategy for design across High Volume, and direct your team to remove the friction, unpredictability and lack of premium servicing. Many of these customers also need to send hundreds of payments at once, for payroll, suppliers or treasury operations, and today that's still a manual, clunky process. You'll help automate and simplify how large volumes of transactions get sent, so scale becomes an advantage rather than a burden.

This is a genuinely hands-on role: expect to be personally in the weeds on a handful of projects each quarter, not just directing from above. You'll build the systems, servicing experiences and financial products that turn Wise into the primary financial partner for our most valuable customers, at scale.

Here's how you'll be contributing

Partnering with your Product and Engineering leadership partners to provide unified leadership for High Volume, setting the vision, defining strategy and leading your teams to deliver it

Owning the design strategy for High Volume, shaping the design agenda across personal and business segments, and defining what great looks like across every surface

Staying properly hands-on: each quarter you'll pick up a small number of projects yourself, working the problem directly rather than reviewing it from the sidelines, and using that work to set the creative and craft standard for the team

Leading, mentoring and helping to develop all designers in the team, across product design, content design and research, accountable for their performance, growth and the quality of their work

Proactively integrating AI into the team's design workflow and operational practices, identifying where it accelerates craft, reduces friction and creates new possibilities

Creating vision with substance that influences the High Volume roadmap and shapes perspectives at the most senior levels of the business

Working with Design Directors from other squads to create a single, seamless experience for customers across the Wise product

Evangelising High Volume's design strategy across the tribe and wider business, connecting great design decisions to business outcomes and company mission

This role will give you the opportunity to

Build and lead a talented, multi-disciplinary design team, and be the best, most hands-on leader they've ever had

Stay deep in the craft, quarter after quarter, on a genuinely hard problem: making our largest, highest-stakes transactions feel simple, predictable and safe.

Shape entirely new product areas for Wise, from early exploration through to launch

Define what excellent service and premium experience looks like for our most valuable customers, and elevate your team to deliver it

Shape how AI changes the way a world-class design team works, not as an experiment, but as a core part of how the team operates

Set the standard for quality, creativity and accountability in one of Wise's highest-impact areas

Be part of a positive change in the world. We're fixing a broken, greedy system, and putting people and businesses in control of their money

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders  — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.

Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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