Senior Product Designer

Forward Financing is a financial technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, focused on unlocking capital for small businesses across America. The role of Senior Product Designer involves understanding complex user needs and collaborating with product and engineering partners to create intuitive and accessible digital experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with our Product Managers to understand what our users need, want, and love across our applications
• Craft every detail of new product features, from ideation, quick iterations, prototyping, user testing, and production, across all screen sizes. This can include artifacts such as sketches, wireframes, comps, prototypes, and more
• Be able to zoom out to understand business impact, as well as zoom into UX and UI details, from typography, layout, and interactions
• Evolve and consolidate our design systems and component library with patterns that are intuitive and practical
• Share your work in regular design reviews where you’ll seek out specific feedback on your designs from all necessary stakeholders
• Conduct research or partner with others to understand customer needs and translate those insights into products and features that solve real problems

Requirements:

• Advanced English fluency
• 5+ years of designing clear, intuitive, and visually appealing digital experiences and shipping products as the only designer on projects
• Proficiency in Figma and design systems. (Do you love Auto Layout? Us too.)
• Ability to design polished, high-fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes, showcasing a passion for the tiniest details
• Low ego and good listening skills, with the desire to understand the needs of customers and the business and to explore and advocate for the strongest user experience
• Experience working cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, and design peers
• Strong written, verbal, and storytelling skills to articulate your design decisions to people throughout the company, from executives to engineers
• A learning and growth mindset with an ability to self-start on problems, a willingness to own problems, and a desire to make things better
• An online portfolio with web design samples
• Basic knowledge of how websites are constructed with HTML and CSS