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# Functional Designer - Payments Platform

- **Company:** Edenred Paytech
- **Location:** Swindon, UK
- **Salary:** £75,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Cloud Computing, Operational Data Store, Systems Integration, Api Management, User Administration, Microservices
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/functional-designer-payments-platform-not-ux-design-edenred-france-company-9888734

## About the Role

* Experienced Functional Designer or similar role, with a proven track record of delivering technical solutions to market.
 * Strong problem-solving skills, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints
 * Strong communicator, able to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels, from executives to engineering teams.
 * Skilled in setting, tracking, and delivering against key OKRs and KPIs.
 * Able to communicate effectively with technical stakeholders and confidently challenge where necessary, ensuring a pragmatic balance between business value and technical best practices.
 * Thrives in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities and challenges effectively.
 * Able to analyse operational data to gain insights to evidence the approach.

Desirable:

 * Experience working with API integrations and microservices within cloud-based environments.
 * Knowledge of the payments industry, including payment processing, regulations, and emerging technologies.

## Description

As a Functional Designer, you will craft innovative, market driven product designs for a specific vertical that promotes standardisation, maximises value and unified strategies across multiple roadmaps. You will play a key role in shaping seamless user experiences that align with business goals and drive product consistency and impact.

What you will be doing:

 * Design and deliver innovative product solutions aligned to business and market needs.
 * Translate business goals into functional product designs and capabilities, focusing on services and system to system integrations (typically APIs)
 * Embed compliance, security, scalability, and availability into product designs.
 * Maintain design standards, style guides, and component libraries.
 * Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver effective solutions.
 * Create user journeys, process flows, capability maps, and personas.
 * Prioritise design activities based on impact, feasibility, and strategy.
 * Refine designs using stakeholder feedback and data insights.
 * Promote design best practices and ensure consistency across products.
 * Ensure designs align with architectural principles and technology standards.
 * Stay informed on fintech trends, emerging technologies, and market developments.
 * Facilitate workshops, design sprints, and stakeholder reviews.
 * Manage shared design assets to support efficient delivery.
 * Balance innovation with technical feasibility and delivery timelines.
 * Track and analyse design metrics to measure user and business impact.
 * This role does not involve UX design