Director of Product Design

Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered Fin Tech company creating the best rent payment experience. Our mission is to empower renters with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense and to deliver truly delightful and supportive financial products.

• Own and lead the design team and strategy for our core rent products
• Shape and drive a vision for the consumer experience
• Align and connect multiple teams to deliver on that vision and achieve business goals
• Facilitate and lead your team to explore and refine their solutions for critical projects
• Set a high standard for quality across everything your team does, from designing concepts to core features and evolving our Design System, Ultraviolet
• Collaborate with other design leaders to ensure alignment and consistency across all teams working on the consumer experience
• Influence design and product decisions by staying in touch with design industry and UX trends
• Test folding AI into team workflows and our UX strategy to build for the future
• Invest in the growth and development of both your direct reports and the design team through operational excellence
• Reinforce Flex principles and culture through your own behaviors and actions

• 5+ years of experience as a senior or staff product designer and 4+ years managing a team of designers
• Extensive experience designing and shipping consumer-facing native digital products, ideally in-house
• Understanding of building and maintaining a scaled, mature design system
• Excellent communication skills and ability to translate complex challenges into clear design problems
• Ability to use qualitative and quantitative insights to guide a customer-centered strategy
• Direction across all stages of the design process, from research to concepting to refinement and prototyping
• Proven ability to execute and adapt across multiple responsibilities
• Comfort with ambiguous problems and self-starter motivation
• Passion for financial products and improving people’s financial lives
• Nice-to-have: experience designing and building Fin Tech products
• A portfolio of work detailing contributions to shipped solutions

The base pay range listed in the job post is $/yr - $/yr. The compensation is commensurate with experience and Flex’s leveling guidelines.

This is a hybrid position with on-site expectations of 3 days per week in our New York Headquarters. For candidates outside the NY/NJ area, relocation assistance may be available.

Life at Flex:
We are headquartered in New York City with employees across the US, Australia, Canada and South America. We are an equal opportunity workplace and strive for an inclusive culture.

• Competitive pay
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision
• 401(k) + company equity
• Unlimited paid time off + 13 company holidays
• Parental leave
• Flex Cares Program
• Free Flex subscription

• Competitive pay
• Company equity
• Unlimited PTO

• Seniority level:
  Director
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Product Management and Marketing