Design Lead

About the role:

We’re looking for a full-stack IC Product Design Lead to join our Design team and lead Growth and Activation. A ground-floor opportunity in a design-driven company. Join a hyper-collaborative design team and get autonomy, ownership, and significant impact across the entire product. You will evolve our design process, own entire projects, and contribute to the development of a diverse team that champions our users’ voices and ships incredible experiences every day.

What you'll do: 

• Deeply understand our customers’ needs, business objectives, and state of the industry to imagine & bring to life paradigm-changing experiences. 

• Establish a high bar for visual polish and intuitive interaction patterns.

• Clearly define customer and business problems. Explore broad-to-narrow solutions with thoughtful designs.

• Ideate, design, launch and improve products to help advance Collective’s mission.

• Work with a cross functional product development team (product managers, engineers, designers, operations, sales & marketing) to ship innovative and well-crafted experiences, for scale

• Optimize for execution velocity while maintaining a high quality bar, making tradeoffs between design choices and resources available. 

• Contribute to growing a robust & refined design system

What you'll bring:

• 6 - 8+  years of experience as a Product Designer

• Demonstrated impact on product strategy and customer experience in previous roles, preferably within Fintech or Consumer Tech.

• Outstanding UX capabilities and strong visual design competency, including visual, UI/UX, copy writing and systems-design.

• Experience with and a high bar for visual polish and intuitive, simple design patterns. 

• Passion for turning complex problems into simple & engaging solutions.

• Innate understanding of the end-to-end design process - from identifying customer needs and pain points to delivering exceptional customer experiences.

• The ability to apply consumer insights and metrics to inform design decisions and influence the product roadmap

• Strong systems thinker with the ability to connect the dots across the entire customer journey. 

What we offer:

• Hybrid Work Model: Based in San Francisco with a balance of in-office and remote flexibility

• Fresh Lunch: Provided on in-office days

• Commuter Support: $150 monthly reimbursement for transit expenses

• Health & Wellness: $200 quarterly reimbursement to support your well-being

• Time Off: Flexible PTO plus 14 company holidays

• Comprehensive Coverage: 100% medical, dental, and vision for employees; 75% coverage for dependents

• Parental Leave: 16 weeks fully paid

• Retirement & Ownership: 401k plan plus an equity package

• Team Connection: Quarterly virtual events and an annual in-person summit

• Compensation Range: $200,000 to $214,000

We provide salary ranges for each role to give you a transparent view of potential compensation. Final offers are determined based on the skills, experience, and qualifications, as demonstrated throughout the interview process.

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