Staff Product Designer

About the position

As a Staff Product Designer at Blank Street, you will help ensure quality of our platforms by combining a love for systems, a strategic mindset, and design skills across both UX and Visual to deliver stellar customer experiences across our digital platforms. You are an expert at generating ideas based on a product requirements document (PRD) or brief, sketching those ideas and bringing them to life digitally. You are extremely passionate about the user experience and are unwavering in advocating for our customers. This role reports to the Global Director of Product Design and is based out of our Brooklyn, NY HQ office.

Responsibilities

• Lead product development process end to end, from initial concept through shipping and beyond
• Design holistic systems, flows, and interfaces that are simple, elegant, and beautiful and produce detailed wireframes, visual compositions, and prototypes
• Visualize and verbalize complex ideas, rationalizing solutions to team and stakeholders, and help continue the process moving forward
• Partner with fellow designers, product managers, and engineers to identify customer pain points, develop robust and efficient solutions, and to bring them seamlessly to life in the real app experience
• Manage our design system and execute on new feature development across our digital platforms

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred, with multidisciplinary background such as psychology, computer science, information sciences, human/computer interface design or commerce/business
• 5-7 years of experience minimum in a product design, user experience, or equivalent role
• Experienced, innovative and forward-thinking designer who can demonstrate leadership of medium-scale projects from concept to completion
• Experience creating, managing, and delivering design systems and tokens with engineers
• Proven interpersonal skills, stakeholder relation skills, and ability to work in a team environment
• Strong storytelling with excellent verbal, written and visual communication skills
• High proficiency in the use of tools such as Figma and Principle as well as Adobe Creative Suite, Keynote, and Google Slides
• Experience creating, managing, and delivering design systems and complex products with development partners.

Benefits

• Annual Base Salary: $140,000-$170,000
• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage. Blank Street covers the full premium for low and mid-tier employee-only plans.
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off + company holidays
• Paid parental leave benefits
• Equity
• Learning and development opportunities. We're growing and we'd like for you to be a part of the journey.
• A whole lot of Blank Street swag & coffee