Contractor - Sr. UX Product Designer

UX Product Designer (Contractor)

The UX Product Designer is responsible for designing intuitive and impactful user experiences while contributing to strategies that align user needs with business goals. Working closely with Product, Engineering, Research, Content Strategy, and Analytics partners, this role helps deliver experiences that create value for clients while supporting Vanguard's business objectives.

This designer will support the Cash Plus team with a primary focus on debit card, banking, spending, and money movement experiences across native mobile and desktop platforms. The role will partner closely with senior design leadership to help define and deliver seamless omni-channel client experiences.

Core Responsibilities

• Design user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and user interfaces across mobile and web platforms using established design systems and brand standards.
• Translate user needs, business priorities, and technical constraints into practical design solutions.
• Contribute to design discovery, journey mapping, and future-state experience planning.
• Participate in usability testing and leverage qualitative and quantitative insights to improve experiences.
• Support the end-to-end design of debit card and spending experiences across mobile and desktop touchpoints.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and external partners to incorporate vendor-powered capabilities and SDK-based solutions into Vanguard experiences.
• Apply competitive, industry, and client insights to identify opportunities for improving banking and spending experiences.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of UX, Product Design, Interaction Design, or related experience.
• Experience designing native mobile experiences.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design thinking and execution.
• Expertise with Figma(Make). Claude is a plus.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional agile teams.

What Sets You Apart

• Experience designing banking, debit card, payments, or cash management experiences.
• Familiarity with money movement, account funding, transaction management, or card servicing capabilities.
• Experience working with third-party banking, fintech, or payment vendors.
• Experience designing solutions that leverage SDKs, embedded experiences, APIs, or plug-and-play components.
• Experience working within highly regulated industries.