Senior Product Designer at Thinkmill
Help us design high-impact fintech products with craft, clear communication, and strong prototyping.
Key facts
- Full-time.
- Remote-first (with on-site available in Sydney & Melbourne).
- 6-month contract (with opportunity to extend).
- Australia & New Zealand residents only.
About Thinkmill
- We’re an internationally recognised consultancy that designs and builds software and platforms with partners like Atlassian, Reckon, Enlitic, Vocal, and more.
- Our team works across a wide range of domains including accounting software, medical AI, online publishing, IoT, and connected products.
- Our model is not typical: we partner with companies both locally and internationally to augment, or become, their design and technology teams. This means we get the best of both worlds: the depth of long-term product development usually restricted to single-product companies, as well as the diversity of multi-client agencies.
- We’re serious about open source with contributions including Keystone, Keystatic, Emotion, and react-select.
- We organise popular meet-ups and conferences, including React Sydney, SydJS, and ReactConfAU.
- We work in the open by sharing our approaches. You can read more about the Thinkmill Method here.
About the role
This is a team augmentation role with an existing client. You’ll design complex financial products used by teams operating across regions and regulatory contexts where clarity, speed, and trust matter.
Day-to-day, the job involves…
- Working with Product and Engineering to define problems, map flows, prototype interactions, and ship improvements to core product experiences.
- Turning ambiguity into clear options, trade-offs, and a recommended direction.
- Facilitating stakeholder alignment through effective critiques and workshops, and bringing people along the design journey with strong narrative and rationale.
- Producing high-fidelity interfaces from design system components with exceptional attention to detail (layout, hierarchy, state, motion, copy/labels, and accessibility fundamentals).
- Creating realistic Figma prototypes that communicate intent, with interaction models, componentised patterns, and clean file hygiene.
- Working in a remote-first environment with strong written communication: decisions, rationales, and progress communicated clearly and proactively.
We offer competitive contract rates commensurate with experience. This position is available to start ASAP, but if you’re not available in the short term, we’d still love to hear from you as other opportunities may arise.
About you
You bring 7+ years of product design experience with a bias toward shipping. You care about craft, but you’re equally strong at bringing stakeholders along with you.
You likely have:
- Fintech experience (or adjacent complex B2B SaaS): Exposure to global product considerations like multi-region users, complex permissions, and dense information.
- Great consulting and communication skills: You can parachute in, build trust quickly, facilitate alignment, and make compelling arguments for your work, both in writing and in meetings.
- High visual acuity: You sweat the details of interface and interaction design, consistently raising the bar for quality.
- Figma prototyping tekkers: You can wire up prototypes that clearly communicate complex product behaviour.
- Comfort working autonomously: You excel at unblocking yourself and collaborating tightly with Product and Engineering.
- A practical mindset: You balance user value with feasibility, sequencing, and time constraints.
- Experience redesigning major parts of a product or taking meaningful new surfaces from 0 to 1.
- Familiarity working within established component libraries and design systems: Using constraints well, and proposing improvements when patterns break.
How to apply
To apply, write something specifically for this position that tells us why we’re a great fit for each other. Please showcase one or two related projects you’ve worked on recently and tell us what you think we should know about them. Highlight your specific contribution or role – we’re keen to see it and hear the story. Please also include your experience to date.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Send an email with the above to work@thinkmill.com.au (no recruiters for this one, sorry).