Lead Product Designer, Step
+ Stock in an early-stage startup
Mobile banking for teens
Open for applications
Mobile banking for teens
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock in an early-stage startup
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create a bank that gives users the tools to become smarter with their money and reward them along their financial journey.
Role
Who you are
- Step is looking for an experienced product designer who can lead the overall product, design, and UX strategy for lending products
- We are a design focused consumer brand that works on physical products, digital products, and mobile apps
- We're looking for someone to roll up their sleeves, lead design on individual features and make design decisions in a role with plenty of room to grow
- The ideal candidate is a passionate designer who is comfortable working closely with cross-functional teams to influence product strategy and rally them around elegant, innovative mobile solutions that delight our users
- Significant demonstrated experience with end-to-end (hybrid UX and UI) product design for consumer facing products
- High level interaction and visual design skills, with exceptional understanding of visual hierarchy, layout, typography, color theory and prototyping
- A craft obsessed designer who strives for quality and has an amazing attention to detail
- The ability to lead design for important projects with experience delegating work and giving direction to other designers
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (you should be able to clearly articulate your design decisions and the logic behind them)
- The ability to think at a high level about product strategy and vision (not just 'how it should look' but 'what we should build')
- Experience in building and shipping applications or software (mobile/web)
- Must have a portfolio featuring examples of design work
What the job involves
- Design high quality interactive experiences across mobile, both iOS and Android
- Lead projects throughout the entire design process; from creative conception to production and release
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to help define the roadmap and execute to achieve business objectives
- Give feedback/direction to other designers to continually push the level of quality on the team
- Take part in defining a design system to be used across multiple products and platforms
- Evaluate current processes, identify best practices, develop plans to reach goals and implement improvements
Our take
Thanks to an increasingly mobile-native and plugged-in younger demographic, fintechs have a new market to play for: children and young adults. It’s led to a fierce competition, but Step is one of the players leading the pack.
Step’s offering is a fee-free, interest-free visa card, with instant payments and easy account management that is optionally controlled by a parent (or sponsor). The idea is to offer a relatively low-risk sandbox in which teens can build up financial literacy along with a good credit score, whilst enjoying the benefits of digital banking.
The well-funded teen banking service Copper is hot on Step’s heels, however, with both racing to add high-demand stock and crypto investments to their offerings. Onu and Acorns also offer investment opportunities for younger users, and Greenlight has carved out a strong (albeit more traditional) niche focusing on account security.
Some savvy TikTok marketing by Step, along with flashy backing from celebrity investors, has helped it rapidly onboard over 3 million users and cultivate strong name brand recognition among its social network-native demographic. Much depends on how fast it can bring new features to market, but with unprecedented funding awarded to Step in 2022, Step is well equipped to do so through a scale-up of its product infrastructure.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2021
$100m
SERIES C
Dec 2020
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $176.3m
Company benefits
- 100% paid Medical and Dental Benefits
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Catered Meals and Fully Stocked Kitchen
- Competitive Salary and Monthly Step Card Stipend
- Flexible WFH and Vacation Policy
- Stock Options
Company values
- Customer first - Build products that better our customer’s financial journey, always putting them and their security first
- Trustworthy - Honest, trustworthy and fair. Strong moral principles. Be accountable
- Driven - Move forward quickly with precision and purpose. Be disciplined. Iterate and improve
Company HQ
Downtown North, Palo Alto, CA
Articles
Leadership
CJ MacDonald
(CEO)Originally worked in senior Sales and Business Development roles at Synapse, LiveOps, and Luminate, the latter of which was acquired by Yahoo. Subsequently co-founded Gyft, ultimately acquired by First Data.
Alexey Kalinichenko
(CTO)Previously a Software Engineer at Microsoft and Google, before moving into a Senior Engineer role at Square. Left to serve as CTO for Token.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 7 more jobs at Step