Product Designer

Job Title: Product Designer

Location: New York, 51 Madison – Local to Tri-State Area

Schedule: Hybrid – Travel onsite for meetings as needed

Duration: 10 months, possible extension | 37.5 hours/week

Must Haves (Non-Negotiable)

• 5+ years of digital product design experience; portfolio required
• Experience in complex, data-heavy, compliance-driven environments
• Agile collaboration with engineering from discovery through delivery
• Strong UX, interaction, and visual design skills
• Proficiency in Figma and modern prototyping tools
• Research- and data-driven decision-making
• Strong stakeholder communication and facilitation skills
• Accessibility knowledge (WCAG) and inclusive design practices
• Experience designing AI-powered features with Responsible AI and privacy-by-design awareness

About the Role

We're looking for a Product Designer to help evolve a financial health and wellness education platform from MVP to a mature tool. Reporting to the Director of Product Design, you'll focus on detailed design, production handoff, and continuous enhancements across web and mobile.

What You'll Do

Design & Handoff

• Create high-fidelity, dev-ready screens including flows, states, edge cases, responsive breakpoints, and annotated specs
• Use and extend the design system for consistency and scalability
• Package designs with clear interaction notes, content, and accessibility annotations
• Own visual QA – review implementations, log defects, and resolve issues before release

Roadmap & Iteration

• Support continuous delivery of new features and enhancements across sprints
• Design new tools and modules (e.g., learning content, calculators, goal tracking)
• Use analytics and user feedback to prioritize fixes and translate insights into designs

Agile Delivery

• Partner with Product Managers, Engineers, and Content to shape sprint plans
• Manage workload across concurrent sprints, balancing near-term and upcoming work
• Respond quickly during build, unblock engineers, and make pragmatic tradeoffs

Outcome Focus

• Track experience metrics (task completion, engagement, satisfaction) and use them to shape enhancements
• Advocate for the customer with evidence-based alignment

Experience

• 5+ years of digital product design with a track record of shipping high-quality work
• Strong detailed design, design systems, responsive design, and developer handoff skills
• Experience iterating on live features post-launch
• Experience working closely with engineers in agile sprint environments
• Experience presenting to senior stakeholders and defending design decisions

Skills

• Strong interaction, visual design, and UX writing collaboration
• Expert in Figma (components, variables, auto layout, prototyping, Dev Mode)
• Comfortable with whiteboarding tools (FigJam, Miro)
• Solid WCAG and inclusive design knowledge
• Comfortable using qualitative + quantitative inputs to prioritize and iterate
• Strong communication and cross-functional alignment
• Meticulous attention to detail with pragmatic prioritization

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Interaction Design, Fine Arts, HCI, or equivalent experience

Nice to Have

• Financial services, financial wellness, or regulated industry experience
• Experience designing educational or behavior-change products
• A/B testing, personalization, and optimization experience
• AI-powered feature design with Responsible AI and privacy-by-design

Deal Breakers

• No portfolio or case studies
• Less than 5 years of experience
• No complex workflow/self-service experience
• No agile engineering collaboration
• No Figma/prototyping proficiency
• No accessibility/WCAG exposure