Lead Product Designer, Banking

Step

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Step is looking for an experienced product designer to lead the overall product, design, and UX strategy for their core banking platform. This is a design-focused consumer banking product that works on physical products, digital products, and mobile apps. The role requires someone to lead design on individual features and make design decisions with room for growth. The ideal candidate is a passionate designer who is proactive in product ownership, comfortable working closely with cross-functional teams to influence product strategy and rally them around elegant, innovative mobile solutions that delight customers.

Requirements

Significant demonstrated experience with end-to-end (hybrid UX and UI) product design for consumer-facing products
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

Nice To Haves

Experience building and maintaining scalable design systems
Ability to translate designs into production-quality code

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