Product Designer, Plaid
$182.4-249.7k
+ Equity
1-5 days a week in office
Data network powering the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life
Posted today
Data network powering the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life
1001+ employees
Posted today
$182.4-249.7k
+ Equity
1-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock financial freedom for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years creating and shipping quality digital products, with consumer experience across mobile and web
- Exceptional visual and interaction craft — you can build nearly anything yourself, and the details are right
- You've genuinely integrated AI agents into how you design and build, and can speak to what that changed
- Strong verbal and visual presentation skills and an articulate point of view about design
- A proven record of influencing team direction and planning, and of tying design to business goals and metrics
- Nice to have: you ship your own code, or have worked as a design engineer
- We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
What the job involves
- We're looking for an experienced Product Designer to own the design of Plaid’s consumer experiences.
- This is novel scope: a first-party, direct-to-consumer product inside a company most people know only through other companies' apps. You'll be the sole designer on a small, senior team, partnering closely with one PM and one engineering lead (as well as a nimble team of IC engineers).
- Your pod is also part of the larger Consumer team, and you’ll get to work across it on other projects too.
- You'll set the quality bar for the surface and take work from ambiguous problem to shipped, polished detail.
- We care a great deal about craft here — this is the product where Plaid's brand is judged directly by consumers, so the details are the substance, not the finish.
- We also work fast, and we expect the person in this role to have already made agentic development a real part of how they design and build
- Own consumer surface design end to end, from problem definition through pixel-level polish
- Set and hold the visual and interaction quality bar for Plaid's consumer product
- Partner directly with product and engineering from planning through execution, shaping what gets built
- Build working prototypes — including with AI agents — to test ideas before committing engineering time
- Produce high-quality work from wireframes and user flows to pixel-perfect prototypes with delightful interactions
- Advocate for consumers and for user-centered process across the team
- Contribute to design culture through collaboration, presenting work, and sharing feedback
Our take
Plaid builds infrastructure that allows consumers to interact with their bank account on the web through a number of third-party applications, like Venmo, Robinhood, Coinbase, Acorns and LendingClub.
Plaid has integrated with over 12,000 financial institutions in the US, Canada, the UK and Europe. And about a quarter of people living in North America with bank accounts have linked with Plaid through at least one of the hundreds of apps that leverage Plaid’s application program interfaces (APIs).
The platform allows companies to create financial services applications without having to hire their own team of engineers to build out a tool that connects apps to its users’ bank accounts. This is very valuable in a world where there are increasing number of fintechs, so the demand for Plaid's services are only going to grow.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2025
$575m
LATE VC
Apr 2021
$425m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Vibrant offices in SF, NYC, and Raleigh-Durham—with catered meals, happy hours, and clubs to keep you connected
- Competitive pay, comprehensive health benefits, and support for fertility, mental health, and parental leave
- Lifestyle perks including home office stipends, daycare support, and commuting benefits like CitiBike and Lyft
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Zach Perret
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously, Zach was a Consultant at Bain and a Research Fellow and Trustee at Duke before co-founding Plaid ion 2012.
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