Lead Product Designer @ Hnry
Hnry
Product, Design
NZD 145k-160k / year
Posted on Dec 10, 2025
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Lead Product Designer @ Hnry
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Wellington, New Zealand
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Permanent, full-time
Hnry takes the hassle out of being self-employed by taking care of all the financial admin – everything from Invoicing and Payments through to Expenses and Taxes. We’re automating traditionally labour-intensive and stressful tasks, delivering great experiences and online tools for our users, and making their lives easier.
We’re looking for an experienced Lead Product Designer to expand on our existing in-house capabilities, and take responsibility for delivering excellent experiences for all users of the Hnry app. In this role, you will be part of our growing Product team, and work collaboratively across all areas of the business and technical teams to design, deliver and validate experiences across the Hnry product and service.
🚀 Responsibilities
Designing simple, intuitive, user-centric experiences and interfaces that delight Hnry users across all platforms and devices
Taking ownership of, and creating concepts and experiences for the overall Hnry user experience, interactions, and interfaces through user flows, information architecture, wireframing and visual design
Balancing immediate user experience needs with how these map to the medium to longer term direction Hnry is driving towards
Being a driving force for product design quality and craft at Hnry, and helping to elevate what best practice looks like
Engaging and observing user behaviours to determine the most appropriate patterns and interfaces to use
Creating prototypes at varying levels of fidelity, to help validate concepts with Hnry customers and internal teams
Working directly with our internal engineering team to deliver improved experiences in to the Hnry app, using beta testing, user trials and usage data to inform incremental delivery of those experiences
Seeking out innovative ways of solving users' problems - working directly with them to understand their challenges, and provide best-fit solutions
Maintaining the consistency of brand identity, visual styles and patterns across the Hnry product
Collaborating with the wider Hnry team to deliver memorable and valuable experiences for Hnry customers, ensuring the product caters for the broadest range of user types and capabilities
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Tom - Head of Product
🫵 You will:
Have 5+ years of relevant design experience, preferably working in fast-paced environments
Have experience with multiple wireframing and prototyping tools, such as Figma, InVision, Adobe XD, or Sketch
Have a passion for pragmatic user-centric design, delivering engaging experiences for both novice and advanced users alike
Be comfortable to clearly articulate a product vision and work incrementally to deliver on that vision
Be able to design mobile-first, creating mobile experiences that also scale up and translate well onto a responsive desktop interface
Have prior experience in data-led decision making, and the ability to identify the key metrics that indicate the success of particular designs
Have a keen eye for detail, particularly when it comes to UI design patterns. High scores on Can't Unsee are a must! 😁
Be well-organised and able to manage & prioritise several initiatives concurrently
Be able to bring your own ideas to the table, be driven and motivated to hit goals, and have the skills to make those ideas a reality
Bring a passion for product design quality, and help grow the product design craft in a way that aligns with Hnry’s ways of working
Have excellent written communication and collaboration skills - we work together and succeed as a team
Bonus points for the following:
Experience working in highly agile and responsive environments
Experience in collaborating directly with engineering teams to deliver the right outcomes
Experience being self-employed (freelancing, contracting etc) in any industry/profession
💪 How we work
We are a fast-moving, highly collaborative and motivated team, that is growing quickly
We have a relentless focus on the customer, and on delivering great experiences to ensure we maintain our high rate of customer referrals
We take a data-driven approach to everything we do, making decisions based on user behaviour - constantly tweaking and optimising to improve.
We follow agile practices, delivering improvements iteratively in small chunks. We track the impact of our work and measure ourselves based on delivering measurable contributions towards agreed targets.
We encourage experimentation - whether that's experimenting with new tools or techniques, or experimenting with new channels
We invest in our people, and provide opportunities for career growth and progression
We work hard and we finish on time, no crazy hours.
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Salary banding: $145,000 - $160,000 per annum
