Staff Product Designer – Product Infrastructure

Valon

Staff Product Designer leading end-to-end design for Valon’s mortgage servicing platform. Enhance user-centered solutions and mentor designers in a collaborative environment.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $197,000 - $232,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead end-to-end design of foundational platform capabilities, reusable patterns, and our design system, enhancing usability and accelerating product development across the organization.
Contribute to product strategy, bringing a strong user-centered perspective and helping the team identify the most important initiatives to work on and why.
Drive deep user understanding through quantitative and qualitative research—serving the needs of mortgage servicing operators, deployment strategists, and technical teams alike.
Partner closely with cross-functional partners and other internal product teams to identify shared requirements and deliver generalized tools and systems that solve for broad use cases, reduce redundancy, and promote consistency.
Mentor designers and cross-functional partners, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuously raising the bar for product quality and craft.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years of product design experience, preferably in a D2C fintech environment.
A portfolio showcasing strong design fundamentals, systems thinking, and a user-centered approach to solving complex problems.
Track record of shipping and iterating on end-to-end product experiences, from concept to launch and beyond.
Ability to navigate ambiguity with confidence, bringing clarity and structure to evolving product spaces.
Excellent communication and organizational skills, with a collaborative mindset and attention to detail.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Compensation: competitive salary with a meaningful stake in the company via equity, and 401k plan.
Health & well-being: we’ll invest in your physical and mental well-being with comprehensive medical, dental, & vision benefits.
Commuter benefits: We offer pre-tax deductions for public transportation, rideshare services, and parking expenses to make your commute more affordable and convenient.
Grow together: Company wide orientation for you to successfully onboard and other learning & development opportunities including regular review cycles that feature 360 degree feedback.
Play together: quarterly budgets for team and company outings. Use it for team swag, cooking classes, or team dinners!
Generous time off: flexible paid time off, sick days, and 11 company holidays.
Baby bonding time!: 12 weeks off for both birthing and non-birthing parents - fully paid so you can focus your energy on your newest addition.

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Hard Skills & Tools

product designuser-centered designsystems thinkingquantitative researchqualitative researchend-to-end product experiencesdesign fundamentals

Soft Skills

communicationorganizational skillscollaborative mindsetattention to detailmentoringnavigating ambiguity