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Staff Design Researcher

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Hybrid
London, England
Senior level
Hybrid
London, England
Senior level
As a Staff Design Researcher, you'll lead research strategies to enhance customer experience and compliance in financial crime prevention, collaborating across teams and mentoring others.
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Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

Job Description

Your mission: 

We're seeking a Staff Design Researcher to join our FinCrime Squad in London. You'll play a crucial role in balancing customer experience with compliance requirements, ensuring our financial crime prevention measures are both effective and user-friendly.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Identify and prioritise high-impact research opportunities that improve customer experience and operational processes.

  • Shape research strategy and direction for the FinCrime squad, aligning current and future work with our broader mission.

  • Set the bar for outstanding customer understanding across all project sizes.

  • Use diverse research methods to uncover insights about complex financial crime prevention challenges.

  • Create clear narratives that make complex topics accessible to a diverse range of stakeholders.

  • Work across multiple teams to solve intricate problems with cross-functional partners.

  • Build and maintain a healthy research culture within the organisation.

  • Mentor emerging researchers and shape collaborative practices that elevate the entire team.

Here’s how you’ll be contributing:

  • You'll have a significant impact on improving the understanding of the Wise customer’s contexts, problems and goals.

  • You'll get to know teams across the full breadth of the business to uncover opportunities.

  • You'll be using your full range of Design Research skills to discover, craft and deliver well rounded insights that ensure a deeply understanding of the customers.

  • You'll be influential in your team, increasing customer-centricity, creativity, and research quality.

  • You'll meet agents, build empathy and understand what challenges they face when using our internal products.

This role will give you the opportunity to: 

  • Ship work you’re proud of. Craft experiences that are innovative, easy to use and clear.

  • Own your impact. Product teams decide what opportunities to work on, and define their success metrics.

  • Elevate product quality. You define what ‘good’ looks like to your team. And you help them deliver it.

  • Be part of a positive change in the world. We’re fixing a broken, greedy system, and putting people and businesses in control of their money.

About you: 

  • You’ve got a portfolio of well-crafted, impactful work that solves real problems for real people.

  • You navigate complex multi-team projects, flagging tradeoffs and opportunities as direction changes.

  • You’re a seasoned collaborator, leveraging other functions’ expertise, and taking them on the journey with you.

  • You can articulate your decisions clearly and credibly.

  • You operate as a full partner with your cross-functional team members (product, data analysts, design, content).

  • You have moved beyond merely seeking “a seat at the table.”

Additional Information

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders  — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Top Skills

Customer Experience Analysis
Design Research Methods
Qualitative Research
User Experience Research

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