Senior Product Designer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design user-friendly products that can scale and meet business goals
• Communicate and present design decisions and processes clearly and succinctly 
• Apply user insights and revenue-driven data in product design to make business impact 
• Advocate for and educate on UX principles to product, engineering, and other cross-functional teams

WITHIN THE FIRST MONTH, YOU'LL:

• Familiarize yourself with the intricacies of the Nova Credit suite of products - including our consumer and customer-facing application experiences across the Credit Passport and Cash Atlas product lines
• Get acclimated to our current design system, and suggest improvements where you see fit 
• Work with our existing team to grow and measure the impact of our design function

WITHIN THE FIRST QUARTER, YOU'LL:

• Become an industry expert who can advise current lending customers across multiple verticals about their overall qualifications and application experiences 
• Act as the key partner of prioritization and execution with our product management and engineering functions across a wide range of requests, from revamping our consumer onboarding flow to redesigning how lending institutions use underwriting tools 
• Improve, iterate on, and maintain Nova Credit’s design system, resulting in better consistency between products and improving developer velocity 

WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR, YOU'LL:

• Develop the user journey for a historic platform of products and services that drive financial inclusion within the US and across the globe 
• Drive the organizational elements of our design function across our multiple product lines
• Help to drive $MM in ARR for the organization by working in both B2B and D2C spaces and converting our highest-value consumers across multiple verticals 

YOUR SKILLSET:

• 5+ years or equivalent experience in product design, with deep experience in end-to-end product development
• A portfolio that demonstrates a breadth of both UX and UI work
• Skillful at creating high-fidelity mockups using the latest design tools (e.g., Figma)
• An ability to collaborate with a cross-functional team, including product, engineering, consumer insights, customer success, and marketing
• A passion for visual and interaction design systems and an ability to understand the big picture while still sweating the details
• The strength to work independently and make forward progress by proactively identifying blockers and seeking out ways to overcome them
• Conceptual understanding of popular front-end frameworks like React