Design Lead

Summary

Join Collective, a company redefining how businesses-of-one operate, as an IC Product Design Lead. You'll be instrumental in creating innovative, AI-enabled financial back-office solutions for solopreneurs. This role involves designing user experiences, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and shaping the overall design system. Collective offers a remote-first environment, competitive compensation, and a collaborative team culture. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in product design, a strong understanding of UX/UI, and a passion for solving complex problems. This is a full-time, permanent position reporting to the VP of Product.

Requirements

• 6 - 8+ years of experience as a Product Designer
• Demonstrated impact on product strategy and customer experience in previous roles, preferably within Fintech or Consumer Tech
• Outstanding UX capabilities and strong visual design competency, including visual, UI/UX, copywriting and systems-design
• Experience with and a high bar for visual polish and intuitive, simple design patterns
• Passion for turning complex problems into simple & engaging solutions
• Innate understanding of the end-to-end design process - from identifying customer needs and pain points to delivering exceptional customer experiences
• The ability to apply consumer insights and metrics to inform design decisions and influence the product roadmap
• Strong systems thinker with the ability to connect the dots across the entire customer journey
• Passion for an iterative process. You think fast on your feet, come up with solutions to important situations, are swift to make decisions and take calculated risks, while soliciting and acting on feedback
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, as well as the ability to align teams and stakeholders around a shared vision
• Growth mindset, proactively seeking out opportunities to improve, always searching for new knowledge and ideas. You experiment, learn from failure, and iterate

Responsibilities

• Deeply understand our customers’ needs, business objectives, and state of the industry to imagine & bring to life paradigm-changing experiences
• Establish a high bar for visual polish and intuitive interaction patterns
• Clearly define customer and business problems. Explore broad-to-narrow solutions with thoughtful designs
• Ideate, design, launch and improve products to help advance Collective’s mission
• Work with a cross-functional product development team (product managers, engineers, designers, operations, sales & marketing) to ship innovative and well-crafted experiences, for scale
• Optimize for execution velocity while maintaining a high-quality bar, making tradeoffs between design choices and resources available
• Contribute to growing a robust & refined design system

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous work experience in a consumer-focused tech organization
• Experience in customer journey mapping and strategic design to complement design foundations
• A passion for design systems with experience building UI components from scratch and expanding an existing design system
• Familiarity in creating interactive prototypes to enhance the customer story
• A design evangelist with strong business acumen to help further the value of design within an organization

Benefits

• Compensation Range: $155,000-$190,000 USD annual base salary
• A remote first environment
• A diverse and collaborative team culture
• Competitive salary and stock options package
• 11 company holidays + unlimited PTO
• 401K
• Employer paid Health, Vision and Dental Insurance
• 100% coverage for employees
• 75% coverage for dependents
• PC or Mac laptop + $750 Home office stipend
• Paid parental leave
• Team events, virtual gatherings
• $600 wellness bonus