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Principal Product Designer

Lead Bank • United States of America 🇺🇸

Onsite $246,500 - $272,000 Full-time Senior

You will own the end-to-end user experience for one or more product verticals, driving the design vision and contributing to the evolution of Lead’s design system. This role involves collaborating with various teams to deliver user-focused designs and managing the entire product design lifecycle.

Responsibilities

  • Build World-Class Experiences: Help shape the future of financial products by transforming traditional digital banking processes into efficient, scalable, and beautifully crafted experiences
  • Craft Visual Identity: Help define and evolve a unified visual language and interaction guidelines that strengthen brand consistency
  • Define Design Systems: Build and refine scalable design systems to ensure consistency and efficiency across platforms
  • Collaborate Across Teams: Work with product managers, engineers, and UX writers to deliver user-focused, impactful designs
  • Champion User Needs: Develop user flows, wireframes, and prototypes that balance user goals, business objectives, and technical constraints
  • Think Strategically: Contribute to product roadmaps, refine design processes, and share knowledge through documentation and presentations
  • Prototype and Iterate: Test and validate design ideas with conceptual models and prototypes, ensuring usability and feasibility
  • Own Execution: Manage the entire product design lifecycle, from research and ideation to implementation and launch
  • Innovate with Impact: Identify unmet needs, uncover design opportunities, and create experiences that redefine how users interact with financial technology

Requirements

  • 15+ years of product design expertise, including leadership roles, with a strong focus on end-to-end design execution
  • Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, or a related field (Master’s preferred), or equivalent professional experience
  • A stunning portfolio showcasing user-centered design solutions for web and mobile, with an eye for polish and usability
  • Mastery of visual and interaction design, UX/UI, typography, and branding, with impeccable attention to detail
  • Experience leading 0-to-1 product initiatives and scaling solutions in fast-paced, dynamic environments
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity, breaking down complex problems, and delivering actionable, impactful design solutions

Key Skills

  • Product Design
  • Visual and interaction design
  • UX/UI
  • Typography
  • Branding
  • Figma

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k Matching, and other wellness benefits
  • Paid parental leave
  • Flexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidays
  • A fun and challenging team environment in a dynamic industry with ample opportunities for career growth

About Lead Bank

Lead is a state-chartered bank building technology-first, compliant banking infrastructure. Its banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform delivers programmable products designed for direct integration into transaction workflows—enabling fintechs, consumer and digital asset companies to scale with compliance and creativity. With decades of experience navigating complex regulations and developing modern technology, Lead supports partners in bringing innovative financial solutions to market. In addition to its BaaS platform, the company offers full-service business and personal banking to clients across the U.S.

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