Principal Product Designer
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full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $246,500 - $272,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Build World-Class Experiences: Help shape the future of financial products by transforming traditional digital banking processes into efficient, scalable, and beautifully crafted experiences.
- Craft Visual Identity: Help define and evolve a unified visual language and interaction guidelines that strengthen brand consistency.
- Define Design Systems: Build and refine scalable design systems to ensure consistency and efficiency across platforms.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work with product managers, engineers, and UX writers to deliver user-focused, impactful designs.
- Champion User Needs: Develop user flows, wireframes, and prototypes that balance user goals, business objectives, and technical constraints.
- Think Strategically: Contribute to product roadmaps, refine design processes, and share knowledge through documentation and presentations.
- Prototype and Iterate: Test and validate design ideas with conceptual models and prototypes, ensuring usability and feasibility.
- Own Execution: Manage the entire product design lifecycle, from research and ideation to implementation and launch.
- Innovate with Impact: Identify unmet needs, uncover design opportunities, and create experiences that redefine how users interact with financial technology.
- Enhance Scalability: Implement tools and processes that streamline workflows and support a growing portfolio of products.
- Advocate for Excellence: Uphold design best practices while looking for opportunities to improve and elevate design standards.
- Deliver Exceptional Quality: Create products known for their ease of use, reliability, and elegant, cohesive design.
Requirements
- 15+ years of product design expertise, including leadership roles, with a strong focus on end-to-end design execution.
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, or a related field (Master’s preferred), or equivalent professional experience.
- A stunning portfolio showcasing user-centered design solutions for web and mobile, with an eye for polish and usability.
- Mastery of visual and interaction design, UX/UI, typography, and branding, with impeccable attention to detail.
- Experience leading 0-to-1 product initiatives and scaling solutions in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, breaking down complex problems, and delivering actionable, impactful design solutions.
- Fluency in best practices for fintech experiences and design, as well as a deep understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies, ensuring solutions are tailored to meet user needs and enhance their experience.
- Demonstrated success in promoting a culture of creativity, and driving cross-functional collaboration with engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
- Ability to present ideas with confidence, articulate design rationale, and influence stakeholders at every level.
- Fluent in Figma, its prototyping tools, and all of the tools du jour.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation based on experience, geographic location, and role
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k Matching, and other wellness benefits, including FSA, HSA and HRA
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidays
- A fun and challenging team environment in a dynamic industry with ample opportunities for career growth
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product designend-to-end design executionvisual designinteraction designUX/UItypographybrandinguser-centered designprototypingdesign systems
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingcreativitycommunicationstrategic thinkingattention to detailinfluenceadaptabilityuser advocacy
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in DesignBachelor’s degree in HCIMaster’s degree in Design (preferred)