Staff Product Designer

Summary

Join Mercury, a financial technology company, as a Staff Product Designer and play a critical role in shaping the user experience of our core product. You will lead large-scale projects, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor other designers. This role requires 10+ years of experience in design, expertise in leading complex projects, and the ability to design whole systems. Mercury offers a competitive salary and equity, along with a comprehensive benefits package. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills, and a passion for creating beautiful and functional designs.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in the design industry
• Enjoy leading high-complexity projects with a broad set of stakeholders
• Ability to successfully leverage the right types of artifacts and communicate at the right altitude to influence company strategy
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners to define product strategy
• Ability to design whole systems, not just interface elements or static pages
• Ability to rapidly prototype large scale concepts as well as smaller, more thoughtful individual interactions
• Experience and interest in the entire design stack, including UI/UX, visual design, and interaction design
• Kindness and humility in everyday interactions
• Enjoying working with and mentoring fellow designers of all levels

Responsibilities

• Take the lead on larger, horizontal, platform-type problems and projects that are 6+ months out
• Partner with other designers on high-priority, complex projects to help get things across the finish line, while pushing the boundaries on quality & craft
• Work alongside our product teams and executive leadership to make sure we’re building things in a systematic fashion and with the utmost quality
• Operate across the entire design stack, including speccing projects, designing workflows, detailed interactions & prototypes, high-fidelity visuals, and ensuring quality implementation
• Find elegant solutions to customers’ problems and think critically from the customer’s perspective
• Mentor other designers on the team, leading by example to uplevel everyone’s skills
• Imbue everything you make with a feeling of wonder

Benefits

• Base salary
• Equity (stock options)
• Benefits