Senior Interactive Designer, Persona
$110-150k
Offers equity
Identity verification infrastructure solution
Open for applications
Identity verification infrastructure solution
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$110-150k
Offers equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To humanize online identity by helping companies verify that their users are who they say they are.
Role
Who you are
- A strong, interactive-focused portfolio that demonstrates passion for craft and technology coupled with an understanding of audience and their motivations
- 5+ years experience in an agency or in-house environment with a focus on digital experiences and website design
- An excellent understanding of UX principles and the ability to turn those into intuitive, empathetic experiences
- Enthusiasm for building cohesive visual design systems and curious about pushing things beyond the status quo, always looking for ways to elevate design regardless of scale or past precedent
- Ability to self-start projects with minimal oversight, while accounting for proper sharing and visibility with the team
- Collaborative in nature, both within the department and beyond
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects and timelines concurrently
- Excellent presentation and communication skills with the ability to present and speak to every aspect of a project, sometimes to the executive team
- Fluent in industry standard tools and creating production-ready files (we work with Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, Notion and various prototyping tools such as Protopie). Experience with code and code-based animation (such as WebGL, Framer, etc) is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Senior Interactive Designer at Persona, you’ll be joining our growing Brand Studio, servicing the companies creative needs and pushing forward the next iteration of our brand across our digital surfaces
- With a primary focus on the marketing website, you will help drive design exploration and updates, through both hands-on design and helping guide the design team
- You’ll work at every stage of a project from initial concepts through production, setting the bar with highly-considered and expertly crafted digital experiences
- You’ll need an good understanding of what it takes to build, iterate and maintain a thoughtful design system, while always looking for ways to level-up and push towards something even better
- This role requires a high level of collaboration and the ability to manage multiple projects of different scopes across the team and company
- With a rebrand having just kicked off, this is a great opportunity to help us push the visual design system and create real impact on the future of the brand
- Work cross-functionally to design and deliver premier digital experiences for our marketing website and other interactive projects (such as event kiosks or digital collateral)
- Lead the design of the marketing website, from managing the day to day site updates and needs with the web design team to finding ways to elevate, refine and push our online experience
- Collaborate closely across design and engineering to create polished, world-class digital experiences
- Support delivery of final creative from concept to prototyping and production ready-files
- Work to elevate the design standard within the brand team and assist in helping raise the bar for how brand is applied within product design
- Play an active role in building a team culture of craft, feedback and collaboration
- Give and solicit feedback from designers and cross-disciplinary partners
- Develop a deep understanding of Persona’s brand and play an integral role in how it evolves
Our take
Persona enables businesses to verify customer identities, fostering trust in online interactions and aiding in age verification, fraud prevention and account recovery. It offers a comprehensive suite of automated identity verification components with worldwide coverage that can be configured, branded and themed to create custom-tailored flows for any use case.
Businesses and governmental organizations can access Persona’s platform via an API, which supports various documents from government-issued IDs to biometrics, ensuring customers are who they claim to be. Persona’s platform also collects passive signals such as a user’s device, location and behavioural patterns to provide a more holistic risk profile, beneficial in financial and insurance contexts.
An impressive partnership with MDT saw Persona enable credit unions to adjust their identity verification flows in real-time, strengthening fraud prevention. The company continues to attract funding which supports the scaling of its offerings and reach. In fact, in 2025, it reached a $2 billion valuation, which showcases the success it has had.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2025
$200m
SERIES D
Sep 2021
$150m
SERIES C
Total funding: $417.6m
Company benefits
- Professional Development
- Catered meals
- Wellness benefit
- 401(k)
- Unlimited time off
- Parental benefits
- Mental health
- Health and wellness
- Bevsday (free drink on Wednesday)
- Family planning
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Rick Song
(CEO & Co-founder)Bachelor's in Computer Science, Maths, Economics at Rice University. KPCB Engineering Fellow, then Engineer at Square.
Charles Yeh
(CTO & Co-founder)Studied Computer Science at Brown. Software Engineer at Zynga, and Technical Lead at Dropbox.
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