Staff User Experience Designer

Sydecar

Staff User Experience Designer at Sydecar leading user experience evolution for a fintech platform, focusing on design quality and customer trust. Collaborating with Product and Engineering teams on strategic initiatives.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the evolution of the entire user experience for deal leads, investors, and internal operations teams
Personally drive design on high-impact initiatives, from discovery through delivery
Simplify complex, regulated workflows into clear, intuitive, and experiences that create trust for our customers
Set and maintain a high bar for design quality while operating with startup speed
Lead user research as a first-class input to product strategy and design decisions
Partner closely with Product Managers to define problems, test assumptions, and validate solutions
Act as a strong voice of the customer in roadmap and prioritization discussions as well as on specific initiatives
Synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights into clear, actionable direction
Lead the adoption and evolution of design systems, shared UI components, and design libraries
Partner with Engineering and Product to ensure consistent implementation across the product
Define standards, guidelines, and best practices that enable speed without sacrificing quality
Balance systemization with flexibility as the product evolves
Work with SMEs to balance regulatory, compliance, and operational requirements with excellent UX
Design systems and flows that support trust, accuracy, and clarity for investors and deal organizers
Make confident tradeoffs when constrained, and communicate them clearly
Use data to inform decisions and optimize for outcomes such as conversion, activation, and retention
Act as a coach and mentor for more junior Product Designers
Provide direct feedback and clear creative direction to keep work moving and maintain quality.
Foster a culture of trust, collaboration, speed, accountability, and continuous improvement
Help designers grow both their craft and product thinking

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of product design experience, including at least 2 years experience as a lead/senior designer
Experience establishing or improving design processes on a team.
Exceptionally strong hands-on design skills, with a portfolio demonstrating end-to-end UX ownership and redesigns
Deep experience leading and applying user research to drive strategy and execution
Strong experience designing complex workflows, multi-step processes, or system-heavy products
Strong experience in design systems and UI libraries
Experience working in regulated markets, especially fintech, capital markets, or private venture strongly preferred.
Ability to balance compliance and regulatory needs with delivering a best-in-class customer experience
Experience with consumer and/or SMB products strongly preferred
Data-informed, outcome-oriented designer with a bias toward execution
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and energized by early-stage environments

Benefits

Comp & perks

Offers Equity
$20K – $25K Bonus

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Hard Skills & Tools

product designuser experience (UX)design systemsUI librariesuser researchworkflow designdata-informed designend-to-end UX ownershipmulti-step processesdesign processes

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationmentoringproblem-solvingtrust-buildingaccountabilityadaptabilitycreativitystrategic thinking