Product Design Lead

About the role

We’re looking for a Product Design Lead to join Chime and help shape simple, human, and engaging experiences that make financial progress accessible to millions. You’ll craft thoughtful, intuitive, and visually polished designs that help members confidently manage their money — and you’ll do it in close partnership with product, engineering, research, and brand.

This role is ideal for a designer who blends strong visual craft with systems thinking — someone who obsesses over details but also knows how to simplify complexity. If you love designing mobile products that are both beautiful and impactful, we’d love to connect.

The base salary offered for this role will range from $176,490 to $245,100
, depending on location, skills, and experience. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits.

This role is in San Francisco Monday - Thursday each week.

• Design beautiful, intuitive, and accessible product experiences that help millions of people make progress with their finances.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with PMs, engineers, researchers, and other designers to bring ideas from concept to launch.
• Create and refine UI components, flows, and interaction patterns that make Chime’s experience cohesive and scalable.
• Use research, data, and experimentation to inform and validate design decisions.
• Contribute to Chime’s design system, maintaining quality, consistency, and evolution across products.
• Champion design craft and quality, elevating standards through critique, collaboration, and mentorship.
• Stay curious and inventive, exploring new interaction models and visual styles that push Chime’s experience forward.

• A portfolio showcasing high-quality, consumer-facing design work across mobile products.
• A proven ability to design and ship simple, elegant, and user-centered experiences at scale.
• Mastery of Figma and a deep understanding of visual hierarchy, layout, typography, and UI patterns.
• A systems-oriented mindset — comfortable designing within and contributing to a shared design language.
• The ability to balance product goals and member needs, turning complex problems into clear, delightful experiences.
• Experience collaborating in fast-paced, cross-functional environments, with strong communication and storytelling skills.
• (For senior-level designers) Experience mentoring peers, influencing product direction, or driving initiatives end-to-end.

At Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress. We created Chime—a financial technology company, not a bank*—on the premise that core banking services should be helpful, easy, and free. Through our user-friendly tools and intuitive platforms, we empower our members to take control of their finances and work towards their goals. Whether it's starting a savings account, purchasing a first car or home, launching a business, or pursuing higher education, we're proud to have helped millions unlock their financial potential.

We're a team of problem solvers, dreamers, and builders with one shared obsession: our members. From day one, Chimers have worked tirelessly to out-hustle and out-execute competitors to bring our mission to life. Their grit and determination inspire us to work harder every day to deliver the very best experience possible. We each bring an owner's mindset to our work, refusing to be outdone and holding ourselves accountable to meet and exceed the highest bars for our teams, our company, and our members.

We believe in being bold, dreaming big, and taking risks, while also working together, embracing our diverse perspectives, and giving each other honest feedback. Our culture remains deeply entrepreneurial, encouraging every Chimer to see themselves as stewards of our mission to help everyday Americans unlock their financial progress.

We know that to achieve our mission, we must earn and keep people's trust—so we hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity in everything we do. These aren't just words on a wall—our values are embedded in every aspect of our business, serving as a north star that…