Senior Product Designer & Manager

Summary

Join Tala, a company on a mission to empower the financially underserved, as a Senior Product Designer. You will be a key leader, contributing to the design of Tala’s core lending products and building new products across various markets. As a problem solver and collaborator, you will create customer-centric experiences, lead design projects, produce design assets, and mentor a team of designers. You will work with product and development teams to deliver against business KPIs and customer needs. Tala offers a remote-first approach with offices globally and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional UX/UI design experience in a fast-paced tech environment
• Has experience working with Design Systems and thinks and designs at a system level, not just interface elements or pages
• Experience with usability research, gathering requirements and rapidly translating information and insights into design experiments, solutions and artifacts (diagrams, flows, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, usability tests, visual design, etc.)
• Fluency in Figma (bonus: other UX/UI tools)
• A well-rounded portfolio that shows your work, aesthetics, design thinking processes and deliverables

Responsibilities

• Create customer-centric experiences and user friendly features, partnering with other Product Designers, product and development teams to create and ship on a regular basis
• Lead projects beyond the scope of the immediate roadmap, working with other designers and stakeholders to identify and validate user problems and work toward durable solutions
• Produce design assets that include user flows, wireframes, low / high-fidelity comps, design prototypes, and design specifications
• Lead a team of designers, encourage best practices in process and methodology and deliver against business KPIs and customer needs
• Coach team to use established design system, style guides, patterns and assets in the creation of UX deliverables