Stash
Director, Product Design
New York, New York, United States · Director
Sponsorship not specified$171k-$255kDetected 28 days ago
Data ScienceA/B TestingFigmaSketchUX ResearchDesign SystemsJiraResearchLeadershipCommunicationMicrosoft Office
About the role
- The team's job is simple to say and hard to do: make money feel understandable, trustworthy, and actionable for everyday people.
- Our product's job is to be a financial advisor in your pocket.
Responsibilities
- Keep design human-centered across the journey: research, flows, copy moments, edge cases. Define what "good" looks like for the customer.
- Run the full design arc: pull signal from research, sketch and prototype (using whatever tools make sense, including AI-assisted ones), run tight reviews, hand off specs engineers can build from, and stay involved through launch.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and Marketing so the product feels like one brand
- Build the boring-but-important stuff: how critique works, how the design system evolves, how we reuse patterns, how we review AI-assisted work so it still meets our bar.
- Strong data-informed product thinking: ability to leverage quantitative data, behavioral insights, experimentation results, and customer signals to inform design decisions, identify opportunities, and continuously improve the user experience.
- Player-coach, you'll manage two designers and carry IC ownership on key work
- Senior product design leadership: strong end-to-end product sense, systems thinking, and a track record shipping great work with Product and Engineering in a fast environment.
- Strong collaborator: Engineering, Product, and Marketing teams are excited to work with you. You build trust across functions and communicate design decisions with clarity and conviction.
- You build trust across functions and communicate design decisions with clarity and conviction.
- Experience owning user research and understanding when it should meaningfully influence the design process - knowing when deeper customer insight is necessary, when rapid iteration is more appropriate, and
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in a fast-paced D2C product design environment.
- Proven ability to make strategic decisions and hold a strong POV on what the product should look and feel like-and the communication skills to get others behind it.
- Experience using Figma and Jira as core tools of your workflow.
Nice to have
- Subscription product experience is a strong plus.
Skills
- Financial inequality is increasing, and too many people are getting left behind.
Compensation
- The base salary range represents the reasonably anticipated low and high end of the salary range for this position.
- No recruiters, please**
- $171,000 - $255,000
Benefits
- Contribute a vision and strong point of view on how we get there.
- Comprehensive total rewards package, comprising compensation (salary and equity) and health care benefits
- Paid Parental Leave (offerings for birth giving and non-birth giving parents) Primary & Secondary
- Enhanced health and wellness benefits through One Medical, Gympass, and Maven Health
Company info
- Best Places to Work, Best Company Outlook, and Best Engineering Team for Diversity, Women, Culture, and more! (2023)
- make money feel understandable, trustworthy, and actionable for everyday people.
- This is a Director, Product Design role reporting to the VP of Product.
- You'll manage two designers and stay hands-on on high-leverage work.
- You're modeling the bar while you develop the team.
- You'll help set direction for the customer experience, simplify complex problems, and drive quality through reviews, systems thinking, and close partnership with Product and Engineering.
- You'll also help the team work in a modern way, including practical use of AI where it speeds up exploration and delivery, with standards that keep the product coherent and responsible.
- Say no when something isn't ready. That includes experiences that need clearer disclosure, better fallbacks, or a simpler path before customers see them.
- What we're looking for:
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