Lead Product Designer, Rocket Money
Lifecycle
$140-170k
+ Bonus
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office
Smart financial management and spending analysis app
Open for applications
Smart financial management and spending analysis app
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$140-170k
+ Bonus
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To improve the financial prosperity of millions of people.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in product or UX design, with a portfolio that shows clarity, rigor, and impact
- 2+ years leading or mentoring designers, formally or informally
- Experience designing for growth, onboarding, and improving user acquisition/engagement
- Skilled in Figma and comfortable working with modern design systems
- Adept at working with engineers and PMs, with an appreciation for how design decisions affect implementation
- A clear communicator who can frame design rationale in a way that builds alignment
- Motivated to see others succeed — you balance hands-on contribution with coaching and delegation
- Comfortable in ambiguity and proactive in bringing structure and clarity
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Product Design Team Lead to guide our Lifecycle group — the team responsible for the most growth-critical moments in the Rocket Money journey: onboarding, authentication, dashboard entry points, and premium membership conversion
- This role blends design leadership with hands-on design work. You’ll lead and mentor a team of designers focused on optimizing the entire user lifecycle — from acquisition through retention
- Your team’s work will directly influence how effectively we turn sign-ups into engaged members, convert free users into paying subscribers, and re-engage people over time
- You’ll partner closely with product, engineering, research, and data teams to uncover friction points, design experiments, and rapidly iterate toward measurable outcomes
- This means balancing clarity and craft with speed and experimentation — knowing when to follow established patterns, when to refine for accessibility and scale, and when to test bold new ideas
- Define and evolve the design strategy for the Lifecycle group, with a focus on activation, conversion, retention, and re-engagement
- Collaborate with Product partners to identify opportunities in funnels and flows, then design experiments to improve key growth metrics
- Lead and mentor a team of product designers, creating a culture of curiosity, accountability, and high-quality execution
- Design, prototype, and test growth-focused solutions across onboarding, premium upsells, authentication, and dashboard entry points
- Partner with analytics and research to translate insights into actionable design opportunities, leveraging both quantitative and qualitative inputs
- Ensure design outcomes are measurable, accessible, and aligned with both user needs and business goals
- Build scalable patterns and frameworks for growth experiments so the team can test quickly without sacrificing usability
- Present design strategies and experiment results to senior leadership, framing outcomes in terms of user impact and business value
- Work closely with Product Design Ops to maintain and evolve the end-to-end design process, ensuring efficient workflows, high-quality outputs, and timely delivery of design assets
- Champion user-centered design principles by overseeing the creation of seamless experiences across Platform features (and beyond) to ensure that all designs are intuitive, accessible, and informed by user research, testing, and feedback
Our take
Managing finances has become increasingly difficult in the last couple of decades, despite access to online banking and other financial apps. The mass of subscriptions, standing orders and utility bills the average American is subject to ultimately makes it difficult to assess and manage their finances within one place.
Rocket Money (formerly Truebill) provides a mobile application that includes a variety of tools that aim to simplify financial management. Tools include an automatic subscription tracker which aims to increase transparency and simplicity for canceling unwanted subscriptions, in addition to monthly spending analytics and budgeting plans.
Whilst there seems to be an app for just about every form of financial management, Rocket Money has taken much-needed action by unifying everything into a single app. The company initially focused on financial management tools, it's now branched out to more direct financial tools such as utility bill comparison services, autopilot saving and paycheck advance loans.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
17% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2021
$45m
SERIES D
Nov 2020
$17m
SERIES C
Total funding: $84.1m
Company benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Plans
- Life Insurance
- Long/Short Term Disability
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental Leave
- 401k Matching
- Team Member Stock Purchasing Program
- Learning & Development Opportunities
- Tuition Reimbursement
Company HQ
Downtown Silver Spring, Silver Spring, MD
Leadership
Haroon Mokhtarzada
(Co-Founder & CEO)They worked as CEO of Webs for 10 years, while studying at Harvard Law School, before working as VP at Vistaprint. They left this role in 2016 having co-founded Truebill (which later became Rocket Money) in November 2015.
Yahya Mokhtarzada
(Co-Founder & CRO)Having studied at the University of Maryland, they worked in Business Development for Webs.com, SGN, appssavvy, and Nanigans for a combined 9 years. In November 2015 they co-founded Truebill.
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