Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Step is a company focused on improving the financial future of the next generation through innovative banking products. They are seeking a Lead Product Designer to lead the product, design, and UX strategy for their core banking platform, collaborating with cross-functional teams to create engaging mobile solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design high quality interactive experiences across mobile, both iOS and Android, and web
- Lead projects throughout the entire design process; from creative conception to production and release
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering and Marketing to help define strategy, and the roadmap to achieve business objectives (growth)
- Collaborate and give feedback/direction to other designers to continually push the level of quality on the team
- Evaluate current processes, identify best practices, develop plans to reach goals and implement improvements
- Utilize and contribute to the Step Design System
Skills
- Significant demonstrated experience with end-to-end (hybrid UX and UI) product design for consumer-facing products
- The ideal candidate has significant experience leading design for consumer fintech products
- Thinks in systems, designing solutions that scale across products, adapt to future needs, and create consistency beyond individual features
- Strong visual design sensibility with the range to move fluidly between systemized UI and more expressive, brand-forward moments
- A craft-obsessed designer who strives for quality and has an amazing attention to detail
- The ability to lead design for important projects with experience delegating work and giving direction to other designers
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (you should be able to clearly articulate your design decisions and the logic behind them)
- The ability to think at a high level about product strategy and vision (not just 'how it should look' but 'what we should build')
- Experience in building and shipping applications or software (mobile/web)
- Uses AI as a creative and productivity multiplier — able to move faster and explore more ideas without sacrificing craft or judgment
- Must have a portfolio featuring examples of design work
- Education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- Experience building and maintaining scalable design systems
- Ability to translate designs into production-quality code
Benefits
- Remote-first company building banking for the next generation
- Stock options
- Generous medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Company-paid life insurance
- A 401k plan with Safe Harbor company matching
- A flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays
- 12 weeks paid parental leave with flexible return to work
- Company-provided technology package
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