Design Director, Brigit
$180-220k
4 days a week in office
Promoting sustainable financial health
Be an early applicant
Promoting sustainable financial health
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-220k
4 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help everyday Americans build a brighter financial future.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of product design experience, with 3+ years managing or directing designers
- Experience leading design for consumer mobile apps (fintech, health, or other behavior-changing products preferred)
- Exceptional portfolio that showcases end-to-end product thinking, visual design skills, and visionary leadership
- Deep understanding of UX best practices, accessibility, and design systems
- Experience leading and executing user research
- Strong collaboration and communication skills — you influence through vision while also keeping tactical priorities on track
- Empathy for financially stressed Americans and an interest in developing products that promote sustainable financial health
- Bonus: Background in behavioral design, financial services, or other regulated industries
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a creative, experienced Design Director to lead our product design function at Brigit. You’ll guide a team of talented designers and work cross functionally to shape every customer touchpoint, from onboarding and navigation to our core product portfolio that includes Instant Cash, Credit Builder, our financial wellness marketplace, and our new line of credit offering
- As a key leader in the Product organization, you'll bring vision and craft together to create lovable, accessible, and effective digital experiences for millions of financially underserved Americans
- This is a leadership role for someone who is excited to be both strategic and hands-on, who can zoom out to define a design system and zoom in to finesse micro-interactions, all while building and mentoring a high-performing team
- Lead and inspire a growing team of product designers
- Establish a culture of big-picture ideation, hypothesis-driven prioritization, and user-centered research and design
- Set the vision for product design excellence that combines visual and interactive elements with top-notch user experience design
- Shape Brigit’s user research function by establishing the processes and tooling to empower designers, product managers, and marketers to discover qualitative insights quickly
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering and Marketing to define product strategy and set roadmap priorities
- Elevate the brand through every product interaction, developing a cohesive, compelling, and modern design language for the Brigit app
- Bring structure to how we work: Evolve our design systems, tools, and processes to improve velocity and consistency
- Champion our customers, who often face financial stress and deserve clarity and compassion in every product touchpoint
- Roll up your sleeves: Lead by example with exceptional hands-on design and clear storytelling
Our take
Brigit is an algorithm-based personal finance app that helps underserved financial customers maintain financial health. It offers a raft of protective services including cash bumps to fend off overdraft charges, budgeting tools, and interest-free emergency loans.
In spite of this financially-oriented spread, Brigit has no intention of expanding into neo-banking. This is smart, as it allows the company to focus on a broad range of banner services without stepping into the far more competitive digital banking sector. Brigit has successfully united these disparate features under a strong customer-forward and socially-impactful identity, which gives the company the freedom to expand its services in response to new banking trends without diluting its brand.
It means, too, that Brigit can complement new and legacy banking solutions, instead of competing for space. This careful positioning should shore Brigit up in a sector undergoing continual and swift change.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2021
$35m
SERIES A
Jan 2020
$35m
SERIES A
Total funding: $110m
Company benefits
- Medical benefits - We offer top-quality health insurance (medical, dental, vision, and wellness) with options so you can select the plan that works best for you
- Generous paid time off - Take the time you want and need to recharge and live a fully balanced life
- Paid parental leave - Because we know there are no jobs harder than being a parent, we support our employees with paid parental leave
- Phone/wifi stipend - Whether you’re in a hybrid or remote role, we make sure our employees have what they need to work effectively outside of the office
- 401K - Choose from a wide range of plans to find the ones that suit your specific retirement plans and savings goals
- Snacks & more - Caffeine and a stocked kitchen keep us energized and Thursday lunch brings everyone together for a weekly nosh
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Hamel Kothari
(CTO & CDO)Former software engineer at Palantir and Two Sigma. Graduated from Berkley with a BA in computer science.
Zuben Mathews
(CEO)Former founder and group head in Strategic Partnership at Deutsche Bank, and managing director at Infosys Technology. Founder of METROINDIA.COM. Graduated with a BA Economics from University of Chicago.
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