Design Lead, Collective

• 6+ years of experience as a Product Designer.
• Demonstrated impact on product strategy and customer experience in previous roles, preferably within Fintech or Consumer Tech
• Passion for turning complex problems into simple & engaging solutions
• Innate understanding of the end-to-end design process - from identifying customer needs and pain points to delivering exceptional customer experiences
• Outstanding UX capabilities and strong visual design competency, including visual, UI/UX, copy writing and systems-design
• The ability to apply consumer insights and metrics to inform design decisions and influence the product roadmap
• Strong systems thinker with the ability to connect the dots across the entire customer journey
• Passion for an iterative process. You think fast on your feet, come up with solutions to important situations, are swift to make decisions and take calculated risks, while soliciting and acting on feedback
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, as well as the ability to align teams and stakeholders around a shared vision
• Growth mindset, proactively seeking out opportunities to improve, always searching for new knowledge and ideas. You experiment, learn from failure, and iterate

Desirable

• We’re looking for a full stack Product Design Lead to join our growing Design team
• At Collective we are building first-of-its-kind, category-defining AI-enabled financial back-office to help millions of solopreneurs run their businesses more effectively
• Our product designers take a product, feature, or experience from ideation to production
• Deeply understand our members’ (user) needs, business objectives, and state of the industry to imagine & bring to life paradigm-changing experiences
• This includes vision setting, designing solutions, prototyping, bringing along cross-functional teams, overseeing implementation, and collaborating with other designers, researchers, product managers, analysts, and engineers
• Explore broad-to-narrow solutions with thoughtful design
• Ideate, design, launch and improve products which help us advance the Collective’s mission
• Work with a cross functional product development team (product managers, engineers, designers, operations, sales & marketing) to ship innovative and well-crafted experiences, for scale
• Optimize for execution velocity while maintaining a high quality bar, making tradeoffs between design choices and resources available
• Contribute to growing a robust & refined design system