Senior UX Designer
SMG - Service Management Group
Senior Product Design Manager
Upstart
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $198,700 - $275,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Lead and grow a team of product designers, providing mentorship, feedback, and professional development while creating a culture of excellence, curiosity, and accountability.
- Drive the design vision and execution across key product areas, ensuring consistency, usability, and measurable business and customer impact.
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders to shape product strategy and define priorities that balance user needs with business goals.
- Establish clear expectations and success metrics for design work, championing outcomes over outputs and ensuring design is an equal voice in product decisions.
- Guide cross-functional alignment on initiatives that span multiple products, unifying experiences through shared systems, standards, and principles.
- Foster collaboration across disciplines, encouraging experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement in how teams work and deliver.
- Collaborate with the Director of Product Design and peers to evolve our operating model, processes, and rituals to scale high-quality design across Upstart.
- Contribute to hiring and onboarding strategies that attract diverse, exceptional talent and reinforce an inclusive, mission-driven design culture.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience designing and launching digital products, with 3+ years leading design teams or managing designers in a product development environment.
- Proven track record guiding end-to-end product design, from strategy to execution, with measurable impact on business and user outcomes.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating design leadership, craft excellence, and systems thinking across multiple product surfaces or ecosystems.
- Experience managing and developing design talent at different career stages, with evidence of elevating team capability and influence.
- Deep understanding of user-centered design processes, interaction design, and data-informed iteration.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills; able to influence and inspire peers, partners, and executives.
- Proficiency in Figma and familiarity with modern design and research tools.
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation (base + bonus & equity)
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with Health Savings Account contributions from Upstart
- 401(k) with 100% company match up to $4,500 and immediate vesting and after-tax savings
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Life and disability insurance
- Generous holiday, vacation, sick and safety leave
- Supportive parental, family care, and military leave programs
- Annual wellness, technology & ergonomic reimbursement programs
- Social activities including team events and onsites, all-company updates, employee resource groups (ERGs), and other interest groups such as book clubs, fitness, investing, and volunteering
- Catered lunches + snacks & drinks when working in offices
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
product designuser-centered designinteraction designdata-informed iterationdesign leadershipsystems thinkingend-to-end product designdesign strategymeasurable business impactmeasurable user outcomes
Soft skills
mentorshipfeedbackprofessional developmentcollaborationcommunicationinfluenceinspirationteam capability developmentcuriosityaccountability
