Product Designer

In 1954, in Columbus, Indiana, Eero Saarinen designed a bank with glass walls, no offices, and a completely open floor plan. It was surrounded by trees; the furniture was made by Herman Miller; the lobby flooring was thick, rustic brick. The bank was built with transparency and community at its core.

Since 1954, a lot of things have happened—Saarinen’s bank branch is now a conference center, people increasingly live on the internet, and it’s hard to think of a single bank that still applies design thinking to their product.

Mercury is building a bank for startups. We believe building a bank in 2021 revolves around thoughtful design, and we’re looking to add a product designer to our team to help.

You’ll:

• Take ownership of large portions of a complex product.
• Work across the entire design stack, including: speccing projects; designing workflows, detailed interactions, and high-fidelity visuals; and ensuring quality implementation.
• Find elegant solutions to user problems, and think critically from the user perspective.
• Simplify and cull design elements with a ruthless eye.
• Craft designs from first principles (referencing existing solutions is often a poor idea in banking).
• Imbue mundane tasks and flows with a feeling of wonder.
• Prototype multiple visual and UX concepts and then narrow them to the right solution.
• Explain and debate the reasoning behind your product decisions.
• Work directly with 2-4 engineers, the business team, a product designer, and a visual designer.

You should:

• Have the ability to design whole systems, not just interface elements or static pages.
• Have experience and interest in the entire design stack, including UI/UX, visual design, and interaction design.
• Have experience building for a variety of form factors, including mobile.
• Understand when no design is the best design.
• Have a strong personal design aesthetic and also understand the Mercury aesthetic.
• Want to create elegant, calm designs that predict and exceed users’ expectations.
• Feel comfortable anticipating and designing for edge cases.
• Understand the balance between perfect design and getting to market.
• Exhibit kindness and humility in everyday interactions.