Staff Product Designer

As a Staff Product Designer at SoFi, you will imagine the future of personal finance, drive new initiatives, and collaborate with a multi-disciplinary set of stakeholders to set a high standard for excellence.

Responsibilities

• Use a design thinking process toward establishing and executing vision for the team initiatives.
• Develop user-centered design solutions based on research, member insights, and industry best practices.
• Challenge the status quo, push innovation, and inspire people toward a unified outcome.
• Work across the entire product life cycle and make an impact at different stages of the product: building vision & strategy, ensuring all the loose ends are tied up when executing, and making sure everything is properly specified for engineering to build.
• Collaborate closely with Research, Product Management, and Engineering partners to iterate and drive programs forward.
• Collaborate with product designers working on other projects to drive alignment and consistency across the entire user experience.
• Create system maps, user flows, prototypes, and page-level specs to communicate design decisions to a variety of stakeholders.
• Collaborate with our design systems teams to leverage and improve templates and components.
• Prototype user experiences to investigate with stakeholders and end-users and to drive internal alignment.
• Contribute toward growing and scaling design best practices across the broader company and within the Design org.
• Help mentor more junior designers on the team.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience working in product design/UX roles.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners to define product strategy.
• A strong understanding of when and how to use metrics to inform design and measure success.
• Experience in using design thinking tools like design sprints to bring together stakeholders and align points of view based on business and user needs.
• Strong expertise in standard design tools (i.e., Figma, Adobe Creative Suite).
• Expertise in mobile and web UX best practices across iOS, Android, and responsive web.
• Strong collaboration skills across cross-functional teams including Research, Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing.
• Ability to translate user research, user needs, and product data to make informed design solutions.
• Experience presenting work and rationale to senior leadership and advocating for user needs in the context of business and technology drivers.
• Experience setting and managing design priorities through planning and execution.
• Passion for team building and development of the broader design team culture.
• Experience working on personal finance (a plus).
• A passion for turning complexity into usable, beautiful experiences (a plus).
• Experience working with remote teams and stakeholders (a plus).
• Experience working on products in both B2B and B2C companies (a plus).
• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human Computer Interaction, or a related field.

Key Skills

• Design thinking process
• User-centered design solutions
• Collaboration skills
• Design tools (Figma, Adobe Creative Suite)
• Mobile and web UX best practices
• Metrics to inform design and measure success
• Design sprints
• User research
• Presenting work and rationale to senior leadership
• Setting and managing design priorities
• Team building and development
• Turning complexity into usable, beautiful experiences
• Working with remote teams and stakeholders
• Working on products in both B2B and B2C companies