You will work directly with the Head of Design to eliminate manual spreadsheets for finance teams through automation and AI. As an early design hire, you'll own the visual craft and information hierarchy of complex financial workflows, building a modern toolkit that recently won Xero's Global People's Choice Award.
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Product Designer at Mayday
Join an award-winning accounting-tech startup that's mending the 'month-end' for finance teams worldwide. Backed by 8VC and Mark Cuban, this company recently passed £1m ARR and is doubling its team to accelerate global growth. As a Product Designer, you'll work directly with a seasoned Head of Design to replace tedious spreadsheets with elegant AI automation. If you have 2-3 years of experience and a passion for high-fidelity UI, this is your chance to own the design system for a category leader that just won Xero's Global People's Choice Award.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
£45k-£50k + Equity
Company
Mayday
Role overview
Mayday is an accounting-tech startup that builds automation and AI tools to eliminate manual spreadsheet-based work for in-house finance teams using Xero or QuickBooks Online. It automates month-end operations including intercompany reconciliations, recharges, journal postings, bank reconciliations, deferred revenue, prepayments, and more, helping teams close faster, reduce errors, and achieve ERP-level control without complexity. Serves mid-market SMBs with 2-10 person finance teams, with products like Balancer, Recharger, BRAG, Mayday HQ.
What you will do
- Design end-to-end product experiences from initial discovery and prototyping to high-fidelity execution and refinement for desktop-first interfaces.
- Partner with PMs and engineers to distill complex accounting workflows into simple, intuitive UI that replaces legacy spreadsheet processes.
- Maintain and evolve the company design system, ensuring visual consistency and high interaction standards across the entire global toolkit.
Who this is a fit for
- Has 2-3 years of product design experience, ideally within a B2B SaaS startup environment focusing on complex data-heavy interfaces.
- Demonstrates exceptional visual craft and a portfolio showing the ability to translate technical requirements into clean, user-centric information architecture.
- Possesses a proactive mindset with an interest in utilizing AI tools for prototyping and a desire to own product features from ideation to launch.
Why this role is remarkable
- High-growth trajectory: Join a category leader that doubled its revenue in 2025 and recently acquired a competitor to expand its global product ecosystem.
- Top-tier mentorship: Work directly under a Head of Design who previously scaled teams from 1 to 7 and served as CPO at a major tech firm.
- Direct impact: Own the design system and visual direction for a product used by thousands of finance professionals, backed by elite investors like 8VC.
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