Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join Mercury's Cards team as a Senior Designer and help shape the long-term product strategy, influencing executive-level decisions. Lead design solutions that scale user experiences while simplifying complex financial processes. Collaborate with product, engineering, and marketing teams to craft a comprehensive product roadmap. You will work across the entire design stack, from initial specifications to high-fidelity visuals, ensuring seamless implementation. This role requires a strong understanding of user experience, visual design, and interaction design, along with the ability to communicate effectively and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. Mercury offers a competitive total rewards package including base salary, equity, and benefits.

Requirements

• Have 3+ years of experience in the design industry
• 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

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

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in the fields of fintech, banking, or other regulated industries is preferred but not necessary

Benefits

• Base salary
• Equity (stock options)
• Benefits