Staff Product Designer - Financial Services (Remote, Americas)

Shopify’s mission is to make commerce better for everyone. From building a new product feature for our commerce platform, to helping a merchant troubleshoot an issue over the phone, we want to empower our ecosystem through our work.

Having a unified vision, a north star, is vitally important to ensure that we are all headed in the same direction. No matter the size or experience, we want to power every merchant’s experience. This is why we’re all here.

We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer to lead design projects of significant scope, complexity and responsibility in creative vision, strategy, and execution on our Financial Services team.

NOTE: Only applicants who submit a portfolio of design work alongside application will be considered.
 

About Shopify UX:
If you seek a team that shares your dedication and empowers you to do the best work of your life, you’ve found us at Shopify UX. The devotion of our industry-leading team isn’t just a job; it's our unwavering passion. We sweat the details, constantly striving to deliver exceptional experiences. Empathy drives us, immersing ourselves in a deep understanding of the entrepreneurial experience, delivering solutions that make our entire ecosystem of users feel seen, celebrated, and inspired. Creative courage fuels our innovation, encouraging bold ideas and embracing experimentation. Open collaboration, feedback, and critique are valued as we push each other to continuously improve. We embrace cutting-edge tools and methods, exploring AI-based technologies; empowering our team to skill up in areas that increase their knowledge and business impact. With curiosity and innovation, we deliver extraordinary value and embrace new creative challenges. 

About the team 

The Shopify Financial Services team is reimagining traditional banking and money management for our merchants. We are breaking down barriers to entry, simplifying complex workflows, better supporting crucial business decisions, and reducing time spent on this challenging yet essential part of running a business. We are looking for an excellent and experienced UX designer who can use design to drive product direction and help us evolve our existing products and launch new ones. With strong visual design skills and systems thinking, they’ll make finances simple, useful, approachable, and beautiful. 

Responsibilities:

• Anchor and represent UX within a cross-functional team, driving a cohesive and impactful approach while fostering continuous improvement of design outcomes.
• Take ownership of the technical UX solution for projects, providing guidance and support to both yourself and others, while enhancing team tools, patterns, and processes for optimized impact, velocity, and quality.
• Mentor and guide fellow UXers, empowering them to elevate their craft and expertise, while identifying skill gaps and facilitating growth through mentorship or strategic recruitment.
• Lead autonomously with influence, collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams to shape a user-centric design vision and strategy, applying strategic thinking to effectively communicate the value of key solutions.
• Streamline feedback loops and processes for efficient and inclusive collaboration, cultivating positive and productive relationships with direct collaborators and stakeholders, and acting as a steward of UX and design quality, driving excellence and fostering growth within the organization.

• You demonstrate a command of product strategy, business needs, domain expertise, utilizing a range of UX tactics to achieve exceptional user-centered product outcomes
• You craft beautiful designs and delightful, useful, and usable experiences; you can demonstrate expertise in visual design, interaction, and product design. You are aware of your gaps and tireless in pursuit of continuous improvement and learning
• You apply a systems thinking lens to your design solutions, zooming between the holistic and the user views continuously, how your pieces fit into the larger picture, and how actions and functions play out overtime. 
• You are experienced at interpreting experiments or tests, and leverage quantitative data to inform product and design decisions
• You are a practiced communicator and storyteller helping your team and stakeholders grasp the extent of a problem, build empathy for the end user, and support your design rationale
• You have a growth mindset, a proactive approach to professional development, and a proven ability to lead through ambiguous problems. 
• You have successfully mentored and guided others, empowering them to elevate their craft and expertise
• You are enthusiastic about leveraging AI and ML to drive innovative product design
• Mobile-first design and strong knowledge of native app and mobile web design
• Demonstrated ability to design within constraints with creativity. Context for this– finances has a lot of compliance and regulations that we have to work within but also push the boundaries of. Experience in Fintech is an extra nice to have.
• Experience working with and evolving a design system
• We work in Figma, GitHub, and occasionally in code. We expect you have deep mastery over your design tools, and willingness to adopt new tools and skills needed to bring your designs and prototypes to life

We know that applying to a new role takes a lot of work and we truly value your time. We are looking forward to reading your application. If you’re interested in helping us shape the future of commerce around the world, send us a few samples of your work: portfolio, wireframes, UX flows, publications, or whatever represents what you do best.