Senior Product Designer

Bread Financial•Pennsbury Township, DE

16h•$108,300 - $245,400•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Product Designer is part of a team of product designers that creates best-in-class, customer-facing, digital product experiences. This position requires strong user experience and Human Factors design expertise, business perspective, and awareness of how technology integrates to deliver a digital product. This role helps to design and build products that transform the way consumers pay for their purchases and retailers grow their businesses, launching features that generate measurable business impact. Demonstrating an ability to influence across the Digital Product Organization, they lead according to standards of product design excellence. They consistently model best practices and improve digital product design delivery through team leadership, cross-functional evangelization, and knowledge-sharing.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Human Centered Design, Product Design or related field of study or equivalent, relevant work experience
5+ years product design experience leading design projects and creating wireframes, mockups and prototypes independently; experience using product design tools, including Figma, inVision, and Adobe Creative Suite

Nice To Haves

Experience in the fintech industry, designing B2B and B2C digital products, and leading or mentoring design teams in remote/distributed environments.
Experienced in collaborating with engineering teams for seamless integration of design components, managing system documentation, and effectively communicating updates across distributed teams.
Working knowledge of Agile methodologies and accessibility standards, with a strong grasp of WCAG and inclusive design principles.
Skilled in building and maintaining design systems for large-scale digital products.
Familiarity with design tokens, component libraries, and version control for design assets.
Experience designing AI-enabled or AI-assisted product experiences, including exposure to both AI-augmented design workflows and consumer-facing AI interactions. Shipped AI products are not required, but candidates should demonstrate thoughtful design decisions, tradeoffs, and learnings in these areas.
Proven ability to proactively lead through ambiguity by identifying opportunities, framing problems, providing strong systems thinking, influencing cross-functional partners, and driving progress in fast-moving environments where multi-tool, AI-augmented ways of working reshape roles and how teams deliver products.

Responsibilities

Create exemplary prototypes and experiences, both alone and with other designers and key stakeholders, while balancing user needs, constraints of technology, brand values, and KPIs. Produce top-notch work that injects usability and delight into the user experience, as we continue to push the boundaries of modern UX - (30%)
Works closely with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to ensure the design vision is implemented effectively. This involves regular meetings, design reviews, and providing design specifications. - (25%)
Collaborates with our user researcher to understand customer needs, behaviors, and pain points and other insights to inform design decisions. - (15%)
Stays up-to-date with the latest design trends, tools, and best practices in the financial services industry. This helps in continuously improving design processes and ensuring the product remains competitive. Is instrumental in improving the efficiency of the Product Design. - (10%)
Applies critical thinking to problem solve through design, testing assumptions and those on the team in order to push beyond the status quo - (10%)
May collaborate with the Design Manager to support the growth and governance of Bread’s Design System, which could include contributing to components, documentation, standards, and ensuring consistency and accessibility across design deliverables. - (10%)