Product Design Lead

1w1 week ago

Collective

San Francisco, US · Full-time · $190,000 – $260,000

About this role

Collective is on a mission to redefine the way businesses-of-one work. Our technology and team of trusted advisors help members achieve financial independence through business incorporation, accounting, bookkeeping, tax services, and community access. Featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, and backed by General Catalyst, Sound Ventures, and Gradient Ventures.

We’re seeking a full-stack IC Product Design Lead to join our Design team and lead Growth and Activation. This ground-floor role in a design-driven company provides autonomy, ownership, and impact across the product. Evolve our design process, own projects, and build a diverse team championing users’ voices.

Deeply understand customers’ needs, business objectives, and industry state to create paradigm-changing experiences. Define problems, explore solutions with thoughtful designs, and ideate, design, launch products advancing our mission. Establish high standards for visual polish and intuitive interactions.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, engineers, designers, operations, sales, and marketing to ship scalable experiences. Optimize execution velocity, make tradeoffs, and contribute to a robust design system. Join a hyper-collaborative environment focused on incredible daily experiences.

Requirements

6-8+ years of experience as a Product Designer
Demonstrated impact on product strategy and customer experience, preferably in Fintech or Consumer Tech
Outstanding UX capabilities and strong visual design competency, including visual, UI/UX, copywriting, and systems design
Experience with and high bar for visual polish and intuitive, simple design patterns
Passion for turning complex problems into simple and engaging solutions
Innate understanding of end-to-end design process from identifying customer needs to delivering exceptional experiences
Ability to apply consumer insights and metrics

Responsibilities

Deeply understand customers’ needs, business objectives, and industry state to imagine and bring to life paradigm-changing experiences
Establish a high bar for visual polish and intuitive interaction patterns
Clearly define customer and business problems and explore broad-to-narrow solutions with thoughtful designs
Ideate, design, launch, and improve products to advance Collective’s mission
Work with cross-functional product development teams to ship innovative, well-crafted experiences for scale
Optimize for execution velocity while maintaining high quality and making tradeoffs between design choices and resources
Contribute to growing a robust and refined design system