Staff Product Designer

Summary

Join Mercury, a financial technology company, as their first Staff Product Designer for Banking Experience. You will play a critical role in defining and designing top-tier banking products. Collaborate with product, engineering, and banking operations teams to create a long-term product vision. Design scalable banking experiences for diverse customer needs, from solo founders to established companies. You will work across the entire design stack, from initial specifications to high-fidelity visuals. The ideal candidate possesses 10+ years of design experience in fintech or a heavily regulated industry and a strong understanding of design metrics.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in the design industry
• Worked in fintech, banking or other heavily regulated industries
• Enjoyed leading high-complexity projects with a lot of stakeholders
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners to define product strategy
• Comfortability running different types of quantitative & qualitative research and can use it to inform product decisions
• A strong understanding of when and how to use metrics to inform design and measure success
• The ability to design whole systems, not just interface elements or static pages
• Experience and interest in the entire design stack, including UI/UX, visual design, and interaction design
• Understanding when no design is the best design
• Kindness and humility in everyday interactions
• Worked with fellow designers of all levels

Responsibilities

• Help define and shape our core banking products and work on improving the customer experience of managing deposits
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and banking operations partners to craft a long-term vision and roadmap for your product area
• Work across product teams and with execs to make sure we’re building one system and are achieving our goals
• Design banking experiences that scale seamlessly - from solo founders just starting out to established companies managing complex operations
• 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 customers’ problems and think critically from the customer’s perspective
• Imbue mundane tasks and flows with a feeling of wonder

Benefits

• Base salary
• Equity (stock options)
• Benefits