Senior Product Designer - Cards

About the position

In this role you will help shape the long term strategy for Cards and related products at Mercury by influencing the thinking at the executive level. You will lead design solutions that help scale our experiences while abstracting the complexities of cards, credit and related banking experiences. Collaborating closely with product, engineering, and marketing partners, you will craft a long-term vision and roadmap for your product area. You will work across the entire design stack, including speccing projects, designing workflows + detailed interactions, creating high-fidelity visuals, and ensuring quality implementation. Your goal will be to find elegant solutions to user problems and imbue perspective that transforms mundane tasks into rewarding experiences. You will simplify and cull design elements with a ruthless eye, craft designs from first principles, prototype multiple visual and UX concepts, and communicate the reasoning behind your product decisions to arrive at the most optimal solution together with your team.

Responsibilities

• Help shape the long term strategy for Cards and related products at Mercury by influencing the thinking at the executive level.
• Lead design solutions that help scale our experiences while abstracting the complexities of cards, credit and related banking experiences.
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and marketing partners to craft a long-term vision and roadmap for your product area.
• Work across the entire design stack, including speccing projects, designing workflows + detailed interactions, creating high-fidelity visuals, and ensuring quality implementation.
• Find elegant solutions to user problems and imbue perspective that transforms mundane tasks into rewarding experiences.
• Simplify and cull design elements with a ruthless eye.
• Craft designs from first principles.
• Prototype multiple visual and UX concepts and then narrow them to the right solution.
• Communicate the reasoning behind your product decisions and arrive at the most optimal solution together with your team.

Requirements

• Have 3+ years of experience in the design industry.
• Experience in the fields of fintech, banking, or other regulated industries is preferred but not necessary.
• Have experience collaborating with cross-functional partners at senior levels to define product strategy.
• Are comfortable running different types of quantitative & qualitative research and can use it to inform product decisions.
• Have a strong understanding of when and how to use metrics to inform design and measure success.
• Have experience and interest in the entire design stack, including UI/UX, visual design, and interaction design.
• Can contextualise solutions as a moment in an ongoing relationship with our customers.
• Have experience building for a variety of form factors, including mobile and web.
• Understand when no design is the best design.
• Understand the balance between perfect design and getting to market.
• Exhibit kindness and humility in everyday interactions.
• Enjoy working with fellow designers of all levels.

Benefits

• Base salary
• Equity (stock options)
• Highly competitive salary and equity ranges within the SaaS and fintech industry
• Regular updates using reliable compensation survey data for the industry