Staff Product Designer, Mercury
Risk
$212.5-250k
Canada: CAD 193,400–227,500. Plus equity
Banking services for startups
Open for applications
Banking services for startups
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$212.5-250k
Canada: CAD 193,400–227,500. Plus equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make scaling tech companies simpler with a personalized banking stack for startups, and power the next generation of companies that will shape the American industry.
Role
Who you are
- Have 8+ years of experience in the design industry
- You have worked in the fields of risk, fraud, or compliance space (or other heavily regulated industries)
- Have experience collaborating with cross-functional partners at senior levels to define product strategy
- Are comfortable running different types of quantitative & qualitative research and can use it to inform product decisions
- Have a strong understanding of when and how to use metrics to inform design and measure success
- Have the ability to design whole systems, not just interface elements or static pages
- Have experience and interest in the entire design stack, including UI/UX, visual design, and interaction design
- Have experience building for a variety of form factors, including mobile and web
- Understand when no design is the best design
- Feel comfortable anticipating and designing for edge cases
- Understand the balance between perfect design and getting to market
- Exhibit kindness and humility in everyday interactions
- Enjoy working with fellow designers of all levels
What the job involves
- We believe that the key to our success revolves around thoughtful design and we’re looking to hire the first staff product designer for our Risk Organization. As a staff designer, you’ll play a critical role in shaping how customers interact with risk and fraud experiences and build best-in-class tools for our internal teams
- You will help shape the long term strategy for Risk and other products at Mercury by influencing the thinking at the executive level
- Understand how our external and internal users interact with risk-related products and bring that understanding to your product team, to inform how our products get built
- Lead design solutions that help scale our experiences while abstracting the complexities of risk and compliance
- Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and risk partners to craft a long-term vision and roadmap for your product area
- Work across the entire design stack, including speccing projects, designing workflows, detailed interactions, and high-fidelity visuals, and ensuring quality implementation
- Find elegant solutions to user problems and imbue perspective that transforms mundane tasks into rewarding experiences
- Simplify and cull design elements with a ruthless eye
- Craft designs from first principles
- Prototype multiple visual and UX concepts and then narrow them to the right solution
- Communicate the reasoning behind your product decisions and arrive at the most optimal solution together with your team
- Mentor other designers to uplevel the development and execution of breakthrough ideas and build new products, tools, and/or processes that help move the team goals forward
Our take
Frustrated by the archaic, fee-laden banking services offered to entrepreneurs, the founders of Mercury set out to create a better solution. They envisioned a platform that was dynamic, tech-driven, and free from unnecessary fees.
Mercury delivers on this vision by automating business payment processes, offering FDIC-insured accounts, and providing full API access, empowering entrepreneurs with greater control and efficiency. This approach stands in stark contrast to traditional startup banking, which often burdens young businesses with high fees and limited functionality.
By prioritizing user experience and offering a free service tier, Mercury has attracted over 100,000 businesses and achieved a $1B valuation in 2021. As a rising unicorn in the stagnant world of startup banking, mercury is poised for continued growth, constantly adding new features and expanding its team to further disrupt the industry.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
50% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2021
$120m
SERIES B
Sep 2019
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $150.9m
Company benefits
- Health, dental, & vision
- 12+ weeks of paid parental leave
- $600 USD custom WFH equipment setup
- Unlimited vacation policy (with a mandatory minimum)
- Retirement matching up to 4% of base salary (401k/RRSP)
- Paid 6-week sabbatical after the 5-year mark
- Annual $1K USD learning & development budget
- Unlimited book budget
- Weekly $100 USD food budget
- Monthly $100 USD wellness budget
- Monthly $50 USD cellphone reimbursement
- Pet-friendly offices with free tea & lunch
Company values
- Think actively: Question processes. Give thoughtful feedback. Find the best way to do something instead of going by how it’s always been done
- Be super helpful: Practice intentionality and accountability. Go above and beyond to solve problems, and do it as a team
- Act with humility: Treat everyone with respect. Leave egos at the door
- Appreciate quality: Work with the best equipment. Avoid cutting corners. Take pride in crafting a lasting product
- Maximize efficiency: Minimize unnecessary meetings and bureaucracy. Work together to get the job done right
- Focus on product: Ask yourself how the product can be better today than it was yesterday
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Jason Zhang
(COO)Studied Biology at Stanford before spending over 4 years at Heyzap in Business Development.
Immad Akhund
(CEO)Graduated from the University of Cambridge, then worked as a Software Developer at Aquila and Bloomberg. Also founded Clickpass and Heyzap, and was a Part-time Partner at Y Combinator.
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