Staff Product Designer (Contract)

Flex is a growth-stage FinTech company creating a better rent payment experience. They are seeking an experienced Staff Product Designer to drive design vision and strategy for complex initiatives, ensuring high-quality user experiences across their product portfolio.

Responsibilities:

• Define and articulate design vision for Flex's most critical and complex product initiatives, ensuring work aligns with business goals and resonates deeply with our users
• Establish a north star for the consumer experience and drive cross-functional alignment around it
• Influence product strategy and roadmap directly through the quality and clarity of your design work and perspective
• Stay close to how the design industry and UX trends are evolving and bring those insights into Flex
• Own the design process end-to-end on flagship initiatives, from research and ideation through refinement, prototyping, and final execution
• Hold a high bar for craft across everything you touch, from individual interaction patterns to our design system
• Build detailed prototypes that illuminate the future of the product and help teams make better decisions
• Use AI across the design lifecycle for, rapid exploration, prototyping, and front-end workflows, and model how the team can do the same
• Partner with design leadership, product, and engineering to shape the direction of complex, cross-cutting product areas
• Collaborate with other designers to ensure alignment and consistency across the consumer experience
• Advocate for design thinking and user-centered principles across the company at every level, up to and including executive leadership
• Establish and evolve design standards, processes, and patterns that raise the quality floor for the entire organization
• Provide mentorship and craft feedback to designers across the team
• Contribute foundational elements and set the standard for how the design system should evolve

Requirements:

• A demonstrated track record as a senior IC contributor on complex consumer products
• Deep expertise in UX/UI design with strong experience showcasing shipped work at significant scope and quality
• Ability and demonstrated experience to operate at the product strategy level, shaping direction through design
• Exceptional execution skills with high attention to detail in interaction design, visual design, and prototyping
• Excellent communication skills; able to work fluidly with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, marketing, and executive leadership
• Proficiency in modern design tooling; and fluency with front-end development
• Comfort using AI tools across the design process for research, exploration, prototyping, and workflow improvement
• Genuine interest in financial products and improving people's financial lives