Product Designer, Mortgage

Product Designers focus on delivering best-in-class experiences by translating user insights and product strategy into products that transform the way work gets done. From reimagining workflows, developing concepts, and crafting new interactions and components, you will be bringing simplicity, transparency, and delight to the complex, confusing industry of consumer finance.

The Blend Mortgage team builds the suite of solutions that facilitated over a trillion in mortgages in 2020 across our customers, which combined represent 25% of mortgage volume in the U.S. This team is responsible for transforming how our customers — financial institutions — deliver mortgage products: from intaking a consumer’s information, guiding them through product selection, and verifying their identity, income, employment, collateral, and much more. You will be leading our consumer-facing experiences across our mortgage platform.

As a senior designer, you’re exceptional in design craft and are keenly interested in simplifying complex and antiquated mortgage processes. You are comfortable interacting with our customer’s business stakeholders and end users to define new and transformative experiences. You’re a hands-on designer and well versed in executing end-to-end: from product discovery, interaction design, to visual execution.

How you’ll contribute

• Design best-in-class experiences to transform how our lending institutions interact with their homebuyers
• Lead projects & initiatives — helping define strategy, user experience vision through cross-functional collaboration and alignment
• Define design foundations that scale across Blend’s customer base and between our different loan application offerings
• Uplevel our team’s design craft and build towards an impactful vision for the homebuyer experience

Who you are

• A designer with excellent visual skills and craft who obsesses over interaction details
• A systems-thinker eager to transform manual processes through defining where and how user experiences should materialize
• A strong communicator and cross-functional collaborator that can balance engineering, customer, and product tradeoffs with user needs
• A proactive and resourceful self-starter who thrives in ambiguity and can make decisions with imperfect data
• 5+ years experience doing design full-time / a portfolio demonstrating exceptional quality in product design

Benefits and Perks: 

• Meaningful equity
• 401(k) plan with employer matching contribution
• Comprehensive health benefits
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Generous vacation policy 
• Work from home office set up stipend and internet stipend
• Wellness benefits covering a variety of wellness activities, gym memberships, fitness classes and more

To comply with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location.

For full time hires, the hiring hourly compensation range for this position is between $126,000 - $148,000. This role is also bonus eligible. Blend benefits and perks are described below.  

Final pay offer amounts will vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to function, level, geographic location, job related knowledge, skills, and experience. Base pay will be adjusted for part-time roles to reflect scheduled hours.