Senior Product Designer, Engagement

NerdWallet is a company focused on bringing clarity to financial decisions. As a Senior Product Designer on the Engagement team, you will own the design for product pods, shaping user experiences that help individuals make informed financial choices, while also contributing to the transformation of design practices within an AI-native environment.

Responsibilities:

• Define a design vision that balances user needs with engagement and monetization goals, developing end-to-end journeys with a systems mindset. Partner with Product to shape roadmap priorities and advocate for the user based on industry trends and competitive insight
• Leverage AI-powered tools to accelerate ideation and prototype AI-driven experiences — including personalized recommendations, conversational interfaces, and adaptive content. Help evolve the team’s design workflow in an AI-native development model
• Deliver production-ready designs at pace, contributing to NerdWallet’s design system through reusable components. Maintain a high bar for quality across iOS, Android, and mobile web, iterating on qualitative and quantitative signals
• Partner with PMs, Engineers, and Analysts on usability tests and concept validation, and use analytics, funnel data, and A/B results to evaluate decisions and identify opportunities. Translate ambiguous problems into clearly framed design challenges with measurable success criteria
• Build strong relationships across Engineering, Product, QA, and Marketing. Communicate design decisions through well-crafted artifacts and presentations, and actively contribute to a culture of critique and continuous improvement across the design organization

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional product design experience, ideally in a consumer-facing tech environment
• A portfolio demonstrating strong craft across end-to-end product work — from problem framing and flows to polished UI and shipped outcomes
• Proficiency in Figma, including component-based design and prototyping
• Experience designing for native mobile apps (iOS and/or Android) and mobile web
• Demonstrated ability to use research and data to drive and explain design decisions
• Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to clearly articulate design rationale to non-design stakeholders
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and fast-paced environments where the problem definition is still evolving
• Familiarity with AI-powered features — such as personalization, recommendations, conversational UI, or adaptive interfaces — or an eagerness to grow in this area