Staff Product Designer, Payments & Risk

Flex is a growth-stage FinTech company headquartered in NYC, focused on creating an improved rent payment experience. The Staff Product Designer will lead design efforts for the payments and risk team, developing a vision and executing design processes to enhance financial services for users across the country.

Responsibilities:

• Lead design on the payments and risk team by contributing to the strategy and roadmap, and owning all E2E design execution
• Develop a vision and point of view for where your part of the experience is heading to inform and influence your team’s roadmap
• Own the design process from beginning to end: leading discovery, ideation, testing, visual design, and implementation
• Facilitate alignment with your cross-functional partners, stakeholders, and designers in other parts of the organization to ensure we are all designing toward a cohesive, considered customer experience
• Be steeped in your team’s customer and business goals, to inform how you prioritize work to drive the most impact
• Solicit feedback from and provide feedback to designers and collaborators across the core renter experience teams in order to maintain high quality and consistency in our work
• Care deeply for and lead by example by setting the standard for high quality craft through your approach to interaction design, prototyping, and visual design choices
• Contribute to our Design System, Ultraviolet, by aligning it with industry best practices and evolving our patterns to scale a modern, polished user experience
• Bring an excitement to adopt new technologies into your process to help us move faster and deliver even better results

Requirements:

• 8+ years experience designing and shipping consumer products
• Comfort documenting and explaining your design process and rationale behind decisions, including leveraging best practices, research, data
• Track record of designing simple, intuitive products that are powered by complex systems and edge cases
• Demonstrated aptitude for getting things done to make your team successful – wearing several different hats when necessary
• Strong native mobile app design experience (iOS and Android)
• Figma expert, and experience using AI tools to sketch and prototype
• Comfort with ambiguous problems
• Motivation to be a self-starter
• Passion for improving every day people's financial well being
• A portfolio of work detailing your contributions to shipped solutions