Senior Product Designer (Engagement)

The role

You will own end-to-end design for product pods to shape user experiences that drive engagement. You will work at the intersection of user needs, business outcomes, and technical possibility using AI-powered tools.

What you will do

• Define a design vision balancing user needs with engagement and monetization goals
• Partner with Product to shape roadmap priorities
• Leverage AI-powered tools to accelerate ideation and prototype AI-driven experiences
• Evolve the team's design workflow in an AI-native development model
• Deliver production-ready designs for iOS, Android, and mobile web
• Contribute to NerdWallet's design system through reusable components
• Partner with PMs, Engineers, and Analysts on usability tests and concept validation
• Use analytics, funnel data, and A/B results to evaluate decisions
• Build relationships across Engineering, Product, QA, and Marketing
• Communicate design decisions through artifacts and presentations

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional product design experience
• A portfolio demonstrating strong craft across end-to-end product work
• Proficiency in Figma, including component-based design and prototyping
• Experience designing for native mobile apps (iOS and/or Android) and mobile web
• Demonstrated ability to use research and data to drive and explain design decisions
• Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and fast-paced environments

Nice to have

• Ideally in a consumer-facing tech environment
• Familiarity with AI-powered features — such as personalization, recommendations, conversational UI, or adaptive interfaces — or an eagerness to grow in this area

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision health care plans
• Rejuvenation Policy – Flexible Vacation Time Off + 11 holidays + holiday company shutdown
• New Parent Leave
• Mental health support
• Paid sabbatical after 5 years
• Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution
• Monthly Wellness Stipend
• Cell Phone Stipend
• Wifi Stipend (Only remote Nerds are eligible)
• Work from home equipment stipend (Only remote Nerds are eligible)
• Co-working space subsidy (Only remote Nerds are eligible)
• Employee Resource Groups

About the company

NerdWallet's mission is to bring clarity to all of life's financial decisions. The Engagement team helps millions of people track spending, monitor credit, build net worth, and discover financial products.