About the Role
As a Staff Product Designer at Flex, you will solve problems for consumers across the country who are underserved by existing financial products. You will own a product area end-to-end, developing a vision, exploring opportunities, and delivering the work. This role is in a highly measured, cross-functional environment with a significant opportunity for designers to bridge customer needs with creative solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead design for your team, contributing to strategy and roadmap, and owning end-to-end design execution.
- Develop a vision and point of view for your product area and define the north star for the team's roadmap.
- Own the design process from beginning to end: discovery, ideation, testing, visual design, and implementation.
- Design for people under financial pressure by bringing clarity, honesty, and dignity to money-related flows, including error, pending, and recovery states.
- Proactively identify customer needs and partner with cross-functional leads to influence team priorities.
- Partner with PM and analytics to structure experiments, inform hypotheses, define success metrics, and gather learnings.
- Facilitate alignment with cross-functional partners, stakeholders, and other designers to ensure a cohesive customer experience.
- Understand team's customer and business goals, conduct research to inform the roadmap, and share learnings broadly.
- Set the standard for high-quality craft through interaction design, prototyping, and visual design choices.
- Build detailed prototypes, including micro-interactions and moments of delight.
- Contribute to the Design System, Ultraviolet, including foundational elements and evolving patterns.
- Model how AI can raise quality and velocity across the team through discovery, exploration, and prototyping.
- Ship frontend changes with minimal support from engineering (plus).
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing and shipping consumer products.
- Design ownership of a product or family of features in a complex space.
- Fluency with experimentation, including designing for A/B tests, reading funnel and cohort data, and adapting based on results.
- Strength in designing for unglamorous states (errors, edge cases, pending, and recovery).
- Comfort treating technical and regulatory constraints as design material.
- Track record of designing simple, intuitive products powered by complex systems and edge cases.
- Comfort documenting and explaining design process and rationale, leveraging best practices, research, and data.
- Demonstrated aptitude for getting things done to ensure team success.
- Strong native mobile app design experience (iOS and Android).
- Figma expert.
- Experience using AI tools to sketch and prototype.
- Comfort with ambiguous problems and motivation to be a self-starter.
- Passion for improving people's financial well-being.
- A portfolio of work detailing contributions to shipped solutions.
- Experience in fintech or another regulated environment, designing disclosures or money movement flows alongside legal and compliance partners (nice to have).
- Experience in an experimentation-heavy product organization where most changes ship behind a flag (nice to have).
- Familiarity with the frontend to make small changes and have productive discussions with engineers about feasibility (nice to have).
Skills
- UX strategy
- Design thinking
- Interaction design
- Visual design
- Prototyping
- AI tools
Location
- New York City
- San Francisco
- Salt Lake City
- US
- Australia
- Canada
- South America
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Staff
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000—$250,000 USD (Tier 1: NYC/Bay Area)
- $170,000—$212,000 USD (Tier 3: Salt Lake City)
Benefits
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision
- Company equity
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Free Flex subscription
- Competitive compensation + company equity (non-U.S.)
- Unlimited PTO (non-U.S.)
About the Company
- Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company creating the best rent payment experience.
- Flex enables users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that fits their finances and budget.
- Flex's mission is to empower renters with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense.
- Flex has built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user base.
- Flex is growing quickly but deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture.
Equal Opportunity
- Flex takes great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.
