Starling is the UK’s first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! Our vision is fast technology, fair service, and honest values. All at the tap of a phone, all the time.
Starling is the UK’s first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way.
We’re a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We’re a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use and designed to demystify money for everyone. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices.
Our technologists are at the very heart of Starling and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together!
The way to thrive and shine within Starling is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, discovering, to sharing knowledge with your colleagues.
Hybrid working
We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Starling - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. In Technology, we're asking that you attend the office a minimum of 1 day per week.
Our product environment
At Starling we spend our time building products that we’re really proud of. We focus on the experience, often delivering things with real polish but sometimes making a fast strategic move. We’re always working closely and collaboratively with our engineers to solve problems, build new products and improve existing ones. We focus on what is right for our customers and stick to our values.
We think being great at product design requires clear communication, a sense of focus, and to challenge the conventional ways of doing things. We’re open-minded when it comes to hiring, we care more about skills and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you care about finding elegant solutions to difficult problems and advocating for the customer, we’d love to hear from you.
We’re looking to expand our design team to help us build products and features across our app, online bank and even our internal tools. There’s a wide variety of things we work on and we’re a small team that spends our time working alongside engineers, research, content designers and product managers to make our products the best they can be. There’s lots of scope to get involved in all aspects of Starling and we’re looking for someone who is keen to get stuck in and work collaboratively.
What you'll do
- Rely on user-centred design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences for new products and features, from concept all the way to execution across our iOS, Android and Online Bank platforms
- Lead the design of major new strategic products and features, alongside tactical fixes and iterations of existing experiences
- Take full ownership of your work, taking into consideration existing insights and research, technical constraints and business needs, whilst proactively filling knowledge gaps both independently and with the support of cross-functional partners
- Participate in regular design reviews to seek specific feedback on your work and share feedback on other designers’ work
- Evolve and grow our internal tooling and design systems across mobile and web
- Advocate for, and design inclusive and accessible solutions to complex problems
- Collaborate closely with other designers, researchers, writers, engineers, product managers and more
Applications close on 23rd October 2026, but we encourage you to apply as soon as possible if you are interested in the role. Please include a link to your portfolio as part of your application, alongside any passwords to access it (if applicable).
Requirements
- You have worked on the design of high quality products and features at a senior level, ideally in consumer-facing mobile apps in the finance or banking sector.
- You have a high level of attention to detail and craft, with strengths across both visual design and user experience design.
- You are highly collaborative, with experience working cross-functionally.
- You thrive working with ambiguous problems, and are able to distil complex flows into highly considered user experiences that keep the user’s needs and business objectives at the heart.
- You have a track record of driving decision making in a fast-paced product environment, ensuring we have the right information available to make informed decisions that lead to meaningful customer and business outcomes.
- You place research and validation at the core of your process. You champion the voice of the user and you have experience planning, executing and actioning user research.
- You are a proactive, confident and effective communicator. You are able to present your work, and articulate your design decisions clearly and confidently to a range of stakeholders, including executives.
- You have experience working with and evolving design systems, across iOS, Android and responsive web.
- You have a portfolio of well crafted case studies that showcases a mixture of research, user experience and user interface design skills, clearly describing outcomes, results and impact of your work.
Interview process
Interviewing is a two way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you. Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team:
- Skills and experience (60 mins): Interview with a member of our product design team to go deep on your skills and experience.
- Portfolio review (90 mins): A presentation of two case studies of your previous work to two members of our product team, with time for questions and answers.
- Executive interview (45 min): Interview with our Product Director and another member of the team.
Benefits
- 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
- An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
- Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
- Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
- Life insurance at 4x your salary
- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
- Generous family-friendly policies
- Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
- Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing
You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren’t sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway.
We’re on a mission to radically reshape banking – and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we’re proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.
Starling Bank is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Starling Bank are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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