Senior Product Designer

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Coast is re‑imagining the trillion‑dollar U.S. B2B card payments infrastructure, focusing on commercial fleets, vehicles, and drivers. The incumbent technologies are decades old, and drivers and fleets increasingly demand modern digital experiences and affordable and transparent financial services products. Coast’s mission is to deliver them at a transformational scale, beginning with the Coast Fleet and Fuel Card built on a cutting‑edge spend management platform.

The Senior Product Designer will own the design of a modern payments platform targeting small to medium sized businesses. You’ll work with PMs, designers, and engineers who are thoughtful, friendly, and experienced. In this role, you will work directly with stakeholders, make decisions quickly, and create designs that have a high degree of impact on the company’s growth.

• Play a critical role in bringing design thinking and a user‑centric perspective to the product development process
• Lead design projects of significant complexity and scope
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering to bring features from ideation to implementation
• Communicate design decisions and thinking clearly, and help build consensus among stakeholders
• Get close to our users by conducting user research, developing personas, and validating designs through usability testing
• Become deeply knowledgeable about the product roadmap and user workflows
• Find opportunities to iterate on and constantly improve the existing product

• 4+ years of experience, ideally at a B2B company or startup
• Expertise in wire framing, prototyping, and Figma
• Experience with maintaining and contributing to design systems
• Portfolio that demonstrates user‑focused thinking to create prototypes and high‑fidelity designs
• Demonstrated ability to understand a product at a deep level and to drive/participate in user research
• Ability to balance the need for a beautiful, delightful interface with the pragmatic concerns of delivery
• The ability to work independently with little oversight in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment with high‑energy, mission‑driven colleagues
• Good organization, with the ability to clearly communicate ideas and design principles

• Fintech experience (a plus, but not required)
• Familiarity with Adobe CC

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of our total compensation package that also includes benefits, signing bonus, and equity. Pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including scope and qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to other Coast employees.

• Salary range: $170,000 – $190,000
• Signing bonus
• Equity grant: commensurate with level determined at the discretion of the company, with meaningful potential upside given the company’s early stage
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Flexible paid time off (vacation, personal well‑being, paid holidays)
• Tools to help manage your financial wellness, including webinars, access to an equity tax advisory service, and company‑sponsored 401(k)
• Paid parental leave
• $400 accessories allowance (a keyboard, mouse, headphones, etc.)
• Education stipend
• Free lunch every Friday

Coast is re‑imagining the trillion‑dollar U.S. B2B card payments infrastructure, focusing on commercial fleets, vehicles, and drivers. Coast is co‑founded and led by Daniel Simon, who previously cofounded Bread (), a leading payments and credit technology firm backed by some of the world’s top VCs and acquired for $500MM+ in 2020.

Coast has raised $165M in total funding—our recent $40M Series B equity round was led by ICONIQ Growth with participation from Thomvest and Synchrony. We’re also backed by top fintech and mobility venture funds—including Accel, Insight Partners, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Avid Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Box Group, Foundation Capital, Greycroft, Colle—and premier angel investors—including Max Levchin (Affirm), Josh Abramowitz (Bread), Jason Gardner (Marqeta), William Hockey (Plaid), Ryan Petersen (Flexport), and many others.

Coast is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We’re a diverse and inclusive environment, so we encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Mid‑Senior Level

Full‑time

Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

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