Remote Staff Product Designer

Summary

Join Mercury as a Staff Product Designer to shape the long-term strategy for Risk and other products, lead design solutions, and collaborate with cross-functional partners. As a staff designer, you'll play a critical role in shaping how customers interact with risk and fraud experiences and build best-in-class tools for internal teams.

Requirements

• Have 8+ years of experience in the design industry
• Have worked in the fields of risk, fraud, or compliance space (or other heavily regulated industries)
• 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 the ability to design whole systems, not just interface elements or static pages
• Have experience and interest in the entire design stack, including UI/UX, visual design, and interaction design
• Have experience building for a variety of form factors, including mobile and web
• Understand when no design is the best design
• Feel comfortable anticipating and designing for edge cases
• 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 Risk and other products at Mercury by influencing the thinking at the executive level
• Understand how our external and internal users interact with risk-related products and bring that understanding to your product team, to inform how our products get built
• Lead design solutions that help scale our experiences while abstracting the complexities of risk and compliance
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and risk 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, and 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
• Mentor other designers to uplevel the development and execution of breakthrough ideas and build new products, tools, and/or processes that help move the team goals forward

Benefits

• Base salary
• Equity (stock options)
• Benefits