Product Designer – 1st Hire, AI
Job Description
Own the full design process: from research and discovery through wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI Design intuitive, accessible, and visually compelling experiences that translate complex financial problems into clear user flows. Evolve our design system to ensure consistency and scalability across the product. Use data, user research, and experimentation to continuously validate and improve designs. Apply AI to supercharge upfront research, competitive analysis, and rapid low-fidelity exploration of dozens of concepts. Validate ideas faster through simulated user perspectives (e.g., walking through the product as different personas). Apply your taste and judgment to identify the strongest directions from broad AI-assisted explorations, then invest your craft skills in fewer, higher-quality high-fidelity iterations. Work closely with product, marketing, engineering, and customer experience to inform and iterate on designs. Partner with engineering to ensure seamless design-to-development handoffs.
Requirements
- 4+ years or equivalent depth of experience designing digital products, ideally in fintech or consumer-facing applications
- Advanced proficiency in Storybook, Figma, and Framer
- Strong ability to translate complex problems into clear, intuitive user flows and explain and defend design decisions
- Experience with design systems, component-based UI, and design-to-development handoff
- Familiarity with experimentation, A/B testing concepts, and using data to inform design decisions
- Basic understanding of Git and version control workflows
- Basic familiarity with HTML, CSS and accessibility best practices
Bonus: Experience using AI tools to create interactive prototypes for testing ideas.
Benefits
- Direct impact on millions of people’s ability to access credit
- High ownership with minimal bureaucracy
- Speed, learning, and impact are core values