Staff/ 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?

Join Epassi to make a real impact in a fast-paced, product-led environment.

In this role, you will take strategic and hands-on end-to-end ownership of the super app experience and help scale it across Europe.
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 now hiring a Staff/Lead Product Designer (App) — a staff-level role with end-to-end ownership of the Epassi super app. This is a senior individual-contributor role: you'll lead through influence, collaboration and design excellence.

Your mission at Epassi

As a staff-level designer, you'll deliver Epassi's vision as the Daily Wellbeing Companion by shaping the super app experience for millions of people — from the long-term concept down to the details that make the app a pleasure to use.

Your responsibilities will be:

• Define and shape the super app concept.
• Own the app's design guidelines within the Epassi design system.
• Lead hands-on concept creation, interaction design, and visual design for complex, modular app structures.
• Hold the experience coherent across verticals and markets.
• Raise the quality bar across the app design team — through patterns, critique, and example, not just direct coaching.
• Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and brand marketing.
• Define UX metrics that tie design quality to business outcomes.

What success looks like

You make confident decisions across the full app and communicate them with authority — to designers, developers, senior leadership, and business stakeholders alike. You help the team focus on the right problems, not just solve the ones handed to you. You balance a long-term UX vision with what's practical to deliver, and you keep the whole experience moving in one direction.

During the first 6–9 months, you will:

• Build a deep understanding of the app's users and the business context across Epassi countries.
• Adopt and drive AI-driven ways of working
• Take on the super app concept and set a plan to scale and improve it.
• Establish a strong collaboration model with design system, product management, engineering, UX writing, research, and brand.

What you’ll be doing (daily):

• Design leadership: Setting direction across app designers, owning the app design guidelines, and driving alignment on UX standards and priorities across domains.
• Hands-on design work: Jumping in to design, prototype, or review when needed — keeping high quality and coherence across the product.
• UX metrics: Defining and monitoring UX metrics across the super app
• Cross-functional alignment: Regular collaboration with engineering, UI architecture, senior product leadership, other senior designers, and brand marketing to align design decisions at scale.
• Team interaction: Working closely with local colleagues and global teams in an open, low-hierarchy culture.

What you should bring:

• 8–10+ years designing complex, at-scale consumer apps.
• Proven ownership of end-to-end product experiences across multiple verticals and markets.
• Deep command of modern app design trends and interaction paradigms.
• A track record of connecting design to measurable outcomes.
• A working understanding of mobile technical constraints and accessibility requirements.
• Experience in HR tech, fintech, wellness, or sports is a plus.
• English is mandatory; an Epassi market language is a plus.

Your track record:

• Published consumer apps with a large, diverse user base.
• Leading complex, cross-domain design initiatives from start to finish.
• Setting design standards and guidelines at team or org level.
• Mentoring and growing other designers.

Your competency profile:

• Exceptional visual and interaction design skills, with a sharp eye for detail, system coherence, and usability.
• Strategic thinking — seeing the big picture while staying close to the details that lift an experience.
• Data-informed decision making, drawing on research, analytics, and metrics to set priorities.
• Ability to align teams and drive decisions through clarity and trust rather than authority.
• An adaptable leadership style, comfortable moving from strategy to hands-on execution.

Why You Should Join Us

• 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.

The role can be can be home-based, with twice-monthly travel to one of our offices in Spain (Barcelona), Finland (Helsinki), or Germany (preferably Hamburg or Bremen).

This position will be filled as soon as we have a suitable candidate - please apply as soon as possible! Share both your CV and portfolio in your application.