Senior Product Designer at Design Humans™ in Millbrae, California

Senior Product Designer

We're looking for a Senior Product Designer with exceptional motion and interaction design skills to join a small, early-stage team building the next generation of mobile financial experiences. This role is ideal for a designer who understands how motion, micro-interactions, and visual craft make a product feel intuitive, engaging, and polished and can translate those ideas into scalable, buildable product experiences.

This is a contract-to-hire opportunity, with the expectation that the right designer will have the opportunity to convert to a full-time role. You'll work closely with product and engineering to shape core mobile experiences from concept through launch, operating independently in a fast-moving environment.

What You'll Do

• Own product design across key areas of the mobile experience, from early concepts and prototypes through polished, production-ready designs.
• Design primarily for native iOS and Android experiences, with a strong focus on interaction and motion.
• Create thoughtful motion and micro-interactions that make the product feel intuitive, engaging, and differentiated.
• Develop motion concepts into buildable patterns using tools such as Lottie.
• Work within and contribute to the design system, leveraging existing components and expanding patterns thoughtfully when new needs arise.
• Take ownership of ambiguous product areas, including rewards and gamification, crypto and investment experiences, and future social/community features.
• Partner closely with product and engineering to balance user needs, business goals, technical constraints, and product quality.

What We're Looking For

• ~5 years of experience with a track record of independently owning complex product areas.
• Strong mobile product design experience, ideally across both native iOS and Android.
• Exceptional visual and interaction design craft, with a strong eye for polish, hierarchy, typography, and detail.
• Deep experience with motion and micro-interactions.
• Strong understanding of design systems, including working with established components and thoughtfully extending systems when needed.
• Experience designing complex or high-consideration products. Fintech experience is preferred, but not required.
• Comfortable working in a startup or small-team environment where priorities can evolve quickly.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly articulate design decisions.

Contract-to-Hire Structure

This role will begin as a 3 month, full time contract engagement, with the intent to convert to full-time based on mutual fit. During the contract period, you'll operate as an embedded member of the product + design teams.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, CA