Senior Product Designer, Empower Finance
+ Equity package
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Credit health & financial management app
Open for applications
Credit health & financial management app
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity package
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To expand access to fair credit to give anyone in the world the opportunity to improve their financial security and mobility.
Role
Who you are
- Successful Senior Product Designers are ambitious and relentlessly pursue excellence
- Design thinking is at the core of their creative process
- 4-5+ years of work experience in product design, visual design, UI/UX and mobile app design
- Own design projects across the entire product lifecycle and iterations that follow
- Work closely with our product, engineering, and ops teams to find visually appealing and practical solutions to business problems
- Influence and help shape the design culture at Empower
- Strong customer empathy and experience shaping product’s User Experience and execution based on customer needs
- Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and logical structuring abilities
- An excellent portfolio that demonstrates love and care for their craft (Please submit your portfolio)
- Proven experience building high-quality consumer-facing mobile products
- Experience quickly iterating and building prototypes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Expert level skills in Figma or Sketch
- Relevant fintech experience is a plus
- At Empower, we hire for people that push themselves to understand others and seek out ways to challenge their personal assumptions
What the job involves
- As a Senior Product Designer at Empower, you’ll be integral to the entire design process
- Our Product Designers are customer-centric and collaborate closely with other designers, product managers, and engineers to bring innovative ideas to life, ensuring our products positively impact our customers’ financial lives
- They push boundaries and innovate, applying design thinking principles to solve complex problems and create user-centered solutions
- This involves empathizing with users, defining clear and actionable insights, ideating on potential solutions, prototyping, and rigorously testing their designs to ensure they meet the highest standards
- Their ambition drives them to continuously improve and refine their skills, staying ahead of industry trends and delivering exceptional value through thoughtful, well-crafted design
Our take
An individual’s credit score greatly influences their life, affecting their ability to rent, receive loans, buy a house, and access affordable interest rates. But you have to have credit to build credit, leaving a lot of people in a catch-22 situation. Empower is a mobile-only app that makes credit more inclusive and accessible, helping customers achieve their credit health goals regardless of their credit history (or lack thereof).
Though other FinTech companies such as Mint or Personal Capital also offer impressive financial tracking for their customers, Empower’s comprehensive set of personal finance features including cash advance and automatic savings offerings make it a better choice for people who want to use a single app to manage their finances.
By empowering people to take control of their money through its range of financial services, Empower is working to break the cycle of paycheck-to-paycheck living. Backed by Blisce, Defy Ventures and Quiet Capital, the company has been significantly growing its revenue in recent years and was recognized in the 2022 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies in the US.
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back within 2 weeks
45% employee growth in 12 months
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2022
$75m
LATE VC
Mar 2020
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $99.5m
Company benefits
- Generous equity package
- Full healthcare benefits
- Unlimited personal vacation
- Technology expense reimbursement
- Work from anywhere
Company values
- Great Expectations - We come up with bold, audacious goals for ourselves and go all out for impact
- Owner Mindset - We give every employee latitude to act independently, make smart choices, and move the business forward
- Spirited Debate - We love skeptics and seek counter opinions to challenge our personal assumptions and expand our view
- Customer Obsession - We listen to understand, empathize, and create a memorable and rewarding experience for our community
- Inclusive Collaboration - We believe diverse teams make the best decisions — and strive to give diverse voices a seat at the table
- No Jerks Allows - We value our relationships and take the time to build trust and connection and communicate respectfully
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Warren Hogarth
(CEO)Previous Partner at Sequoia Capital and is an Early Investor/Company Builder for multiple companies.
Justin Ammerlaan
(CTO)Founder of Ammerlaan Initiatives and Co-Founder of White Room Trading. Previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer at SDM and a Technical Architect at Fujitsu.
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