Varo Bank

Lead Product Designer

Varo Bank

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $125,000 - $175,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Lead end-to-end design for the core banking experience. Take complex financial flows and turn them into seamless, trustworthy experiences.
  • Manage multiple, large-scale projects simultaneously, maintaining a holistic perspective in every decision.
  • Develop frameworks that enable scalable, data-driven design decisions across teams.
  • Influence decision-making at the senior leadership level across disciplines, set design direction, and align strategy.
  • Partner with leadership to connect design strategy to company goals and measurable outcomes.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, User Research, Data Science, and Operations to define vision and roadmaps, align stakeholders, present to leadership, and deliver outcomes tied to user and business goals.
  • Collaborate with user research to run usability tests and gather feedback to validate hypotheses and iterate on features.
  • Evangelize design thinking within the company and mentor junior team members as the team grows.
  • Grow our design system to ensure consistency across multiple products and platforms.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of product design experience with a proven ability of driving end-to-end design across complex, multi-surface experiences in fast-paced environments.
  • A strong portfolio showcasing your design process, not just final visuals. We want to see how you solve problems.
  • Banking domain expertise: You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and can pivot when necessary. You are a strategic architect of complex financial workflows.
  • You have experience in design systems, both contributing to and maintaining. You don't just design screens; you design flows and systems.
  • Experience leading design through ambiguity and influencing strategy through storytelling and systems thinking. You can guide and persuade executives, engineers, and other stakeholders on your design decisions clearly.
  • You have a mentorship mindset and a proven track record of helping other designers grow.
  • Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
  • This role is also eligible for a bonus, equity, and competitive benefits.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
product designdesign systemsusability testingdata-driven designdesign thinkingstorytellingsystems thinkingcomplex financial workflowsmulti-surface experiencesdesign process
Soft Skills
leadershipmentorshipcollaborationinfluencestrategic thinkingproblem-solvingcommunicationadaptabilitypersuasionholistic perspective
Certifications
Bachelor's degree