Product Designer

Job Summary

Our client, a leading financial services organization, is seeking a Product Designer to help evolve a recently launched financial health and wellness platform from MVP to a mature consumer-facing product. This role offers the opportunity to shape the user experience of a growing digital product, driving intuitive and impactful design solutions that enhance customer engagement and satisfaction. The ideal candidate will bring strong digital product design expertise, exceptional UI/UX skills, and experience collaborating closely with engineering teams to deliver high-quality digital experiences in an agile environment.

Contract Length: 10-month contract with potential for extension

Location:

New York, NY

Work Arrangement:
Hybrid

Interview Process:
Virtual panel interview

Create high-fidelity designs, user flows, prototypes, and detailed specifications for web and mobile experiences. Design responsive, user-centered interfaces that account for multiple devices, states, and edge-case scenarios. Partner closely with engineering teams throughout development and QA to ensure accurate implementation and design quality. Build, maintain, and enhance scalable design system components, patterns, and documentation. Ensure visual consistency, usability, accessibility, and adherence to design standards across the platform.

Conduct design reviews, identify implementation issues, and collaborate with engineering teams to resolve defects. Design and enhance product features, tools, assessments, calculators, educational experiences, and progress-tracking capabilities. Leverage user research, analytics, and feedback to identify opportunities for product improvements and optimize user outcomes. Maintain comprehensive design documentation, specifications, and pattern libraries. Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, Content Teams, and stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.

Participate in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and roadmap discussions. Balance immediate product needs with long-term design strategy and future enhancements. Monitor user engagement, adoption, satisfaction, and performance metrics to inform design decisions. Translate user needs, business objectives, and research insights into intuitive and effective design solutions. Advocate for customer-centric design principles and align cross-functional teams around shared product goals.

Bachelor’s degree in Design, Interaction Design, HCI, Fine Arts, or related field; equivalent practical experience considered. 5+ years of digital product design experience with a portfolio demonstrating production-ready work. Portfolio or case studies required for consideration. Strong experience designing complex, workflow-driven, data-intensive, or self-service digital products. Expertise in UX design, interaction design, visual design, and information architecture. Proficiency with Figma, including components, variables, auto layout, prototyping, and Dev Mode handoff.

Experience using collaborative design tools such as Fig Jam or Miro. Strong understanding of responsive design and multi-device experiences. Experience working directly with software engineers from discovery through implementation and QA. Experience in Agile product development environments. Research-driven and data-informed design decision-making skills. Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design practices. Strong communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and facilitation skills.

Experience designing AI-powered or automated features with awareness of Responsible AI and privacy-by-design principles.

Experience with in financial services, financial wellness, education technology, or highly regulated industries. Experience designing learning, coaching, guidance, or behavior-change products. Experience supporting products after launch through continuous enhancement roadmaps. Familiarity with experimentation, A/B testing, personalization, and optimization strategies. Experience using qualitative and quantitative research methods to drive product improvements. Experience with AI-powered recommendation engines, assistive guidance tools, or personalized digital experiences.

Exceptional attention to detail with strong execution skills. Ability to bring structure and clarity to complex design challenges. Strong…