Lead Product Designer (App)

Job Description

Are you interested in joining of Europe's fastest growing companies? Do you want to impact the wellbeing of millions of users?
If yes, join us to make an impact in a fast-paced and dynamic environment where you’ll play a key role in driving financial accountability, supporting strategic decisions, and enabling sustainable growth.

Epassi’s purpose is to boost everyday well-being. We are a leading provider of employee benefit solutions across Europe. We were established in Finland in 2007, and in 2008 we were the first company to launch a mobile-payable employee benefit payment solution in Europe. Since then, we have consistently grown, diversifying our products and introducing our services into new markets.
Epassi has been awarded by the Financial Times as one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe on multiple occasions.

We are currently hiring Lead Product Designer (App) to be based in Helsinki, Hamburg or Bremen

Your mission at Epassi

To deliver on Epassi’s vision as the “Daily Wellbeing Companion” by unifying and elevating the end-user app experience across all markets.

Your responsibilities will be:
Serve as the global design authority for the Epassi App UI layer, setting and enforcing standards across all markets. Lead concept creation, interaction, and visual design for modular/super-app structures, ensuring a unified and scalable user experience. Leverage and evolve the Epassi Design System for overall consistency and operational efficiency.

You’ll be successful in this role if you:
You can switch between taking your time to explore interaction concepts and making practical design decisions to make sure we get things done on time.

You are highly collaborative and communicate with ease with other designers, engineers and product managers, as well as brand marketing.

The first 6-9 months: you will define the foundations and the first realization of our future app UX concept together with our current app designers.

What you’ll be doing (daily):
Design collaboration and leadership: You will have a morning sync call with a mug of coffee or tea with all the app designers to discuss a global onboarding experience and who will work on what and what does the user research tell us today.

Focus work: Then you will analyse on your own the different user needs and potential flows and interaction models around a key app concept.

Breaks together: Now is time for a break and a lunch with local colleagues.

Seeking alignment and making decisions: In the afternoon you have a 1-1 with the UI Architect and last but not least a meeting with brand marketing to align on a new animation guideline.

What you should bring:

7 + years of proven success in at-scale, complex apps, e.g. “super-apps”. Knowledge and perspective on the latest app design trends. Understanding of the possibilities and restrictions of AI in both design process and in the end-user experience.

You have a good grasp of how mobile and app technical opportunities and restrictions impact design-decisions. You are familiar with mobile accessibility requirements. Preferably you would have experience from HR tech, Fintech, wellness or sports sector.

Your language profile:
Fluent English is required, German or Finnish language skills are appreciated.

Your track record:
You have worked on published consumer apps with a significant user-base, preferably multi-market and multi-language. You have led complex design projects from start to finish. You have created or significantly contributed to app design systems. You have moved key UX and business metrics.

Your competency profile:

• Able to create visually impressive and easy to use experiences: You understand shape, color, movement and composition, as well as interaction design best practices and how all these impact user experience.

• Data-driven: user research and analytics are important to you, and you understand how to prioritize and balance both UX metrics and business goals.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills: you are able to express your thinking in a clear way and have productive debates with colleagues. You take into account multiple points of view, empathize with not only users but also colleagues, and you can facilitate complex discussions and decisions with ease.

• Adaptability: You should be able to change your problem-solving approach depending on the task at hand and the surrounding context.

Why You Should Join Us (country specifically adapted with the benefits of each country)

• Be part of an ambitious growth journey and join a global community of driven, bold, entrepreneurial, yet humble Epassians in a company that is constantly evolving.

• Work with a clear purpose — boosting everyday wellbeing — and create a meaningful, positive impact on both individuals and society.

• Thrive in an open and inclusive culture with low hierarchy, where relationships are built on respect, camaraderie, and shared successes and challenges.

• Come as you are — we’ll bring out the best in you and support your personal and professional growth.

• Join a fast-growing tech company with a strong financial foundation, offering opportunities to grow and make an impact together with us.

• Benefit from an inspiring and supportive work environment where employee wellbeing is a true priority.

• Contribute to solidifying our position as the number one player in Europe’s employee benefit market and help shape the next wave of success.

This position will be filled as soon as we have a suitable candidate - please apply as soon as possible!
For more information, contact the Talent Acquisition team on [email protected]