Shine is the financial copilot for entrepreneurs and small business owners.
Founded by serial entrepreneurs Rico Andersen and Martin Hegelund, Shine is a leading European fintech unicorn on a mission to restore the joy of running a business, by ending wasted time on financial admin. Shine offers a connected solution for invoicing, accounting, payroll, business accounts, payments, and financing, meaning business owners can focus their energy on growing a healthy business, not held back by manual admin.
Part of something bigger
Today we're part of Cegid, a European leader in cloud software for finance and accounting. Together we're building Europe's leading financial copilot for small businesses and their accountants.
Shine already supports more than 400,000 small businesses. As part of Cegid, we now reach over one million small businesses and 15,000 accountants across Europe.
We're a multicultural team working from France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, contributing to a wider European network that spans Spain, Portugal and Belgium.
Your hiring experience matters
Just as we respect our customers' time, we respect yours. Your experience with Shine and Cegid should feel simple, transparent and genuinely supportive.
If this sounds like somewhere you want to grow, we'd love to hear from you.
Our Product Design team is made up of 15 talented people across four areas: Staff Design, Copywriting, Banking, and Invoicing & Accounting. In this role, you'll join the Banking domain and work closely with a cross-functional squad (Product, Engineering, Data, Ops, Compliance).
Your direct manager will be Arnaud (Head of Design - Banking), and you'll partner day-to-day with your Product and Engineering counterparts within the squad.
The Banking Experience squad owns the core of what our customers interact with every day: the mobile and web application surfaces that make running a business feel simple and powerful. This is the heart of Shine's product, the place where freelancers and business owners manage their money, track their activity, and stay in control of their finances.
The squad owns:
Account overview and day-to-day navigation
Transaction history, search, and categorization
Payments (transfers, scheduled payments, SEPA, instant)
Card management (virtual, physical, settings, limits, freeze)
Cross-market feature consistency
You'll own end-to-end design for the core banking experience across mobile and web, designing surfaces that millions of entrepreneurs rely on daily. Your mission is to make complex financial interactions feel effortless, raising the bar on usability, consistency, and delight while shipping at pace.
Your responsibilities will include:
Own banking experience design from discovery delivery measurable impact
Design and iterate on high-frequency surfaces that balance simplicity with functional depth
Diagnose and improve daily-use flows: account management, payments, card features, navigation
Lead discovery with customers, synthesize usage data and research insights into decisions
Contribute scalable components and interaction patterns to the design system
Ensure cross-platform consistency between mobile and web
Partner with PM/EM on prioritization, trade-offs, and roadmap shaping, co-own engagement and retention metrics
Participate in design rituals and raise quality while shipping pragmatically
Job located in Berlin with possibility of two remote working days per week.
6+ years experience designing digital products; experience in consumer-grade mobile apps or fintech is a strong plus
Strong track record designing high-frequency, high-quality mobile and web experiences
Proven end-to-end ownership with shipped outcomes and impact validation
Excellent craft and interaction design sensibility — you care deeply about details and feel
Hands-on user research & synthesis, strong collaboration with PM/Engineering
Strong systems thinking
1️⃣ 45' call with Saskia
2️⃣ 45' interview with Arnaud
3️⃣ A 1h portfolio review highlight your skills
4️⃣ A team introduction, followed by a soft skills interview based on personality assessments to see how we can best support your growth at Shine
A role with visible impact on the daily lives of freelancers and small business owners across Europe
End-to-end ownership in a product trio environment (Design × Product × Engineering), with real influence on what we build and why
The opportunity to work on high-ambiguity, high-impact problems and ship improvements that are measured and iterated
A strong Product Design community (15 talented people) with regular rituals for feedback, craft, and learning
A multicultural environment with colleagues across France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands
A competitive salary, depending on your experience and profile
Equal Opportunity Employer
We follow the principle of equal treatment to consider all job applicants and do not discriminate based on their gender, sexual orientation, color, racial or ethnic origin, religion, disability, etc. as per applicable law.
