Staff Product Design

The Tax & Year-End team at Shine

Year-end is a key part of every accountant's calendar: closing the books, producing the annual accounts and filing the tax return. Today, most of that time goes into manual bookkeeping and admin. Our mission is to change that, so accountants can automate more of their work and spend their time giving clients strategic advice. We're building a new year-end product from scratch and launching it as a standalone product in a new market.

Your role as a Staff Product Designer

As our Staff Product Designer, you'll take this product from zero to one. You'll run research with accountants to understand how year-end works, test concepts early and shape what the product becomes. You'll make decisions together with your product manager and engineering manager as a trio, and as the product grows, you'll help it scale to other markets. You'll also manage and mentor other designers in this area.

Why you'd want this role

• You get the pace and ownership of a startup, with the support and design maturity of an established company.
• Your work has a direct line to business impact.
• You'll work closely with the people making the key decisions.
• You'll shape the design strategy for a whole new area.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Taking the product from problem–solution fit to product market fit through experiments and small iterations
• Managing and mentoring designers in this area, and fostering psychological safety
• Working with designers and teams across Shine, through design critiques and when a feature depends on them

Job located in Berlin & Amsterdam with possibility of two remote working days per week

About you

You have 7+ years of design experience, including at least 2–3 years at senior level. You're hands-on with a strong focus on craft, you use AI in your design workflow, and you speak fluent English.

What we need

• You're comfortable starting from a blank page: you've turned early, unfinished thinking into a first version, testing as you go, in an organisation that changes often.
• You've managed and mentored designers, ideally for two years or more. We'll explore what that looked like in the interview.
• You've worked in a design team with multiple designers.
• You've designed a product that scaled into different markets.
• You've worked in accounting, tax, finance or a similar field.

Nice to have

• You speak German.
• You move easily between big-picture vision and detail.
• You've shipped products with AI features.

What we're looking for in your portfolio

A project where you started from a blank page and got to a first version, with testing along the way.