Principal Product Designer, Consumer

The role

You will lead design for a full business area by shaping vision and driving end-to-end execution. You will align multiple teams, lead design exploration, and build prototypes to drive strategic initiatives.

What you will do

• Lead design for a full area of the business by shaping and driving the vision
• Connect and align multiple teams through complex design challenges
• Lead design exploration and solutions on critical projects
• Set a high bar for quality across features and concepts
• Design for people under real financial pressure including error and recovery states
• Build prototypes and artifacts to align partners and leadership
• Support company strategy with qualitative research, data, and industry trends
• Partner with PM, analytics, risk, and engineering to structure experiments
• Establish design-thinking methods and toolkits
• Evolve the Ultraviolet Design System and AI standards

Required qualifications

• 10+ years designing and shipping consumer products
• Experience leading a product area or vertical
• Track record aligning several teams around a shared experience
• Fluency with experimentation and quantitative reasoning
• Strength in designing error, edge case, pending, and recovery states
• Comfort treating technical and regulatory constraints as design material
• Evidence of raising the quality bar for others through mentorship or standards
• Track record of designing simple products powered by complex systems
• Ability to document and explain design process and rationale
• Aptitude for getting things done
• Strong native mobile app design experience (iOS and Android)
• Figma expert

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech or another regulated environment
• Experience in an experimentation-heavy product organization
• Experience establishing new ways of working through design operations or AI-assisted workflows

Benefits

• Relocation assistance program for candidates outside of hub areas

Before you apply

• Those who transition to a full-time role will likely need to relocate to one of the hub locations

About the company

Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company building the payment layer for life's financial obligations. They aim to give households control over their cash flow by offering choice over how and when payments are made.