EMPOWER OVERVIEW
Empower is a high-growth, award-winning financial technology startup on a mission to meaningfully improve the financial health and wellbeing of today’s generation. We help people stretch their dollars between paychecks, save up for life’s emergencies, spend more consciously — and ultimately, rewrite their financial story. The drive, fearless thinking, and empathy we bring to our work delivers better outcomes for our community every day.
Empower is picking up speed and on the cusp of something big. We’re adding several thousand new customers to our community every day, and we’ve raised over $25 million from top venture capital firms, including Sequoia Capital, Initialized Capital, and Icon Ventures as well as David Velez, Founder and CEO of Nubank, one of the most valuable financial technology startups in the world. We’ve also been recognized in Apple’s list of "New Apps We Love," Time’s "Best Apps of the Year So Far,” and Real Simple’s 2020 Smart Money Awards.
Want to make a difference in someone’s financial journey? Let’s go.
WHAT EMPOWER OFFERS
Competitive salary
Generous equity package
Full healthcare and dental benefits
Technology expense reimbursement
Work from anywhere
JOB DESCRIPTION
With 2 million customers to design for, we're looking to our second Product Designer to join the
Empower design team to work on our iOS and Android products. This is an outstanding opportunity to join the Design team at the ground level and influence how we think about design at the company at a strategic level. This role will report to the
Head of Design. The ideal candidate will be able to map out a diverse set of creative solutions and work with the design team to help craft Empower's products.
Responsibilities
- Own design projects across the entire product lifecycle and iterations that follow
- Work closely with our product, engineering, and ops teams to find visually appealing and practical solutions to business problems
- Influence and help shape the design culture at Empower as an early addition to the Design team
- Rapidly produce multiple concepts and prototypes, knowing when to apply attention to detail and when to make low-fi prototypes and sketches
Qualifications
- 3-5 years experience in product design
- Excellent portfolio that demonstrates love and care for their craft (Please submit your portfolio)
- Strong product sense
- Expert level skills in Figma or Sketch (we use Figma and are building a shared Design culture around it. It's ok if you haven't used it before, we'll get you up to speed in no time!)
- Proven experience building high quality consumer-facing mobile products
- Experience quickly iterating and building prototypes