Mercury
Senior Product Designer - Banking
Mercury, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Senior Product Designer, Banking
In the 1950s, breaking away from his day-to-day job designing furniture and accessories, George Nelson designed the Kirkpatrick House. With a wood and steel-frame structure, freestanding fireplace, brick walls, and large windows, it's as usable and beautiful today, as it was when first built. An early letter shared between Nelson and his client reveals the principle at the heart of this long-lasting piece: "We are not so much concerned about the appearance of the outside," he writes, "as we are about the livability of the inside."
Half a century later, we at Mercury are on a mission to build a product that people love on the inside, at least as much as on the outside. We're a financial technology company that helps startups spend less time banking* and more time building. We believe that the key to our success revolves around thoughtful design and we're looking to hire a senior product designer for our Banking Group. As a senior designer, you'll play a critical role in shaping how customers interact with our core banking services.
*Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC.
In this role:You will help shape the long term strategy for banking and other products at Mercury by influencing the thinking at the executive levelLead design solutions that help scale our experiences while abstracting the complexities of core banking servicesCollaborate closely with product, engineering, and risk partners to craft a long-term vision and roadmap for your product areaWork across the entire design stack, including speccing projects, designing workflows + detailed interactions, creating high-fidelity visuals, and ensuring quality implementationFind elegant solutions to user problems and imbue perspective that transforms mundane tasks into rewarding experiencesSimplify and cull design elements with a ruthless eyeCraft designs from first principlesPrototype multiple visual and UX concepts and then narrow them to the right solutionCommunicate the reasoning behind your product decisions and arrive at the most optimal solution together with your teamMentor other designers to uplevel the development and execution of breakthrough ideas and build new products, tools, and/or processes that help move the team goals forwardYou are the right fit if you:
Have 6+ years of experience in the design industry.You have worked in the fields of fintech, banking, or other relevant industriesHave experience collaborating with cross-functional partners at senior levels to define product strategyAre comfortable running different types of quantitative & qualitative research and can use it to inform product decisionsHave a strong understanding of when and how to use metrics to inform design and measure successHave the ability to design whole systems, not just interface elements or static pagesHave experience and interest in the entire design stack, including UI/UX, visual design, and interaction designHave experience building for a variety of form factors, including mobile and webUnderstand when no design is the best designFeel comfortable anticipating and designing for edge cases.Understand the balance between perfect design and getting to marketExhibit kindness and humility in everyday interactionsEnjoy working with fellow designers of all levelsThe total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits.
Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.
Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:
US employees (any location): $180,100 - $211,900Canadian employees (any location): CAD 163,900 - CAD 192,800
We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on January 22, 2024. Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here.
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In the 1950s, breaking away from his day-to-day job designing furniture and accessories, George Nelson designed the Kirkpatrick House. With a wood and steel-frame structure, freestanding fireplace, brick walls, and large windows, it's as usable and beautiful today, as it was when first built. An early letter shared between Nelson and his client reveals the principle at the heart of this long-lasting piece: "We are not so much concerned about the appearance of the outside," he writes, "as we are about the livability of the inside."
Half a century later, we at Mercury are on a mission to build a product that people love on the inside, at least as much as on the outside. We're a financial technology company that helps startups spend less time banking* and more time building. We believe that the key to our success revolves around thoughtful design and we're looking to hire a senior product designer for our Banking Group. As a senior designer, you'll play a critical role in shaping how customers interact with our core banking services.
*Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC.
In this role:You will help shape the long term strategy for banking and other products at Mercury by influencing the thinking at the executive levelLead design solutions that help scale our experiences while abstracting the complexities of core banking servicesCollaborate closely with product, engineering, and risk partners to craft a long-term vision and roadmap for your product areaWork across the entire design stack, including speccing projects, designing workflows + detailed interactions, creating high-fidelity visuals, and ensuring quality implementationFind elegant solutions to user problems and imbue perspective that transforms mundane tasks into rewarding experiencesSimplify and cull design elements with a ruthless eyeCraft designs from first principlesPrototype multiple visual and UX concepts and then narrow them to the right solutionCommunicate the reasoning behind your product decisions and arrive at the most optimal solution together with your teamMentor other designers to uplevel the development and execution of breakthrough ideas and build new products, tools, and/or processes that help move the team goals forwardYou are the right fit if you:
Have 6+ years of experience in the design industry.You have worked in the fields of fintech, banking, or other relevant industriesHave experience collaborating with cross-functional partners at senior levels to define product strategyAre comfortable running different types of quantitative & qualitative research and can use it to inform product decisionsHave a strong understanding of when and how to use metrics to inform design and measure successHave the ability to design whole systems, not just interface elements or static pagesHave experience and interest in the entire design stack, including UI/UX, visual design, and interaction designHave experience building for a variety of form factors, including mobile and webUnderstand when no design is the best designFeel comfortable anticipating and designing for edge cases.Understand the balance between perfect design and getting to marketExhibit kindness and humility in everyday interactionsEnjoy working with fellow designers of all levelsThe total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits.
Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.
Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:
US employees (any location): $180,100 - $211,900Canadian employees (any location): CAD 163,900 - CAD 192,800
We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on January 22, 2024. Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here.
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