Lead Product Designer (Banking)

• Step is looking for an experienced product designer who can lead the overall product, design, and UX strategy for our core banking platform.
• We are a design-focused consumer banking product that works on physical products, digital products, and mobile apps. We’re looking for someone to roll up their sleeves, lead design on individual features and make design decisions in a role with plenty of room to grow.
• The ideal candidate is a passionate designer who is proactive in product ownership, comfortable working closely with cross-functional teams to influence product strategy and rally them around elegant, innovative mobile solutions that delight our customers
• Design high quality interactive experiences across mobile, both iOS and Android, and web
• Lead projects throughout the entire design process; from creative conception to production and release
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering and Marketing to help define strategy, and the roadmap to achieve business objectives (growth)
• Collaborate and give feedback/direction to other designers to continually push the level of quality on the team
• Evaluate current processes, identify best practices, develop plans to reach goals and implement improvements
• Utilize and contribute to the Step Design System

Benefits

• Competitive Medical, Dental, Mental Health & Wellbeing benefits
• 12 weeks paid parental leave, baby bonus to support unexpected expenses and flexible return to work
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Annual Professional Development Reimbursement Program
• Flexible Work From Home and Time Off Policy
• Stock Options- Strong visual design sensibility with the range to move fluidly between systemized UI and more expressive, brand-forward moments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (you should be able to clearly articulate your design decisions and the logic behind them)
• Thinks in systems, designing solutions that scale across products, adapt to future needs, and create consistency beyond individual features
• Significant demonstrated experience with end-to-end (hybrid UX and UI) product design for consumer-facing products
• The ability to think at a high level about product strategy and vision (not just ‘how it should look’ but ‘what we should build’)
• A craft-obsessed designer who strives for quality and has an amazing attention to detail
• The ideal candidate has significant experience leading design for consumer fintech products
• Must have a portfolio featuring examples of design work
• Uses AI as a creative and productivity multiplier — able to move faster and explore more ideas without sacrificing craft or judgment
• Experience in building and shipping applications or software (mobile/web)
• The ability to lead design for important projects with experience delegating work and giving direction to other designers
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every single qualification. Strong candidates rarely check every box, and we’d rather meet you than miss you