Senior Product Designer - Risk

In 1954, Eero Saarinen designed a branch office with glass walls, no offices, and a completely open floor plan in Columbus, Indiana. It was surrounded by trees; the furniture was made by Herman Miller; the lobby flooring was thick, rustic brick. It was built with transparency and community at its core. Since then, a lot of things have happened—Saarinen’s branch is now a conference center, people increasingly live on the internet, and it’s hard to think of a single financial institution that still applies design thinking to their company.

Mercury is on a mission to defy those expectations. 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 add a senior product designer to help build amazing experiences that enable us to make the right decisions around risk at Mercury. Your work will have an impact across our product and our operational teams at Mercury.

Our design team consists of 30+ people who love to solve complex problems through design, but are equally passionate about cultivating, guiding, and inspiring each other through their work to foster a collaborative environment of experimentation and innovation.

What you’ll do at Mercury:.

• Collaborate with design, product and engineering partners to craft a long-term vision and roadmap for your product area.

• 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).

• Imbue mundane tasks and flows with a feeling of wonder.

• Prototype multiple visual and UX concepts and then narrow them to the right solution.

• Communicate the reasoning behind your product decisions and arrive at the most optimal solution together with your team.

You are the right fit if you have:

• Familiarity designing for complex products or within heavily regulated industries

• The ability to balance the needs of internal stakeholders and external customers

• Experience working with cross-functional partners to define product strategy.

• Comfortability running different types of qualitative research and using it to inform product decisions.

• A solid understanding of when and how to use metrics to inform design and measure success.

• The ability to design whole systems, not just interface elements or static pages.

• Experience and interest in the entire design stack, including UI/UX, visual design, and interaction design.

• Designed for a variety of form factors, including mobile.

• An understanding when no design is the best design.

• Anticipated and designed for edge cases.

• A working style that exudes kindness and humility in everyday interactions.

The 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 job 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): $164,000 - $180,500

• Canadian employees (any location): CAD 156,000 - 172,000
  
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