Principal Product Designer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee product design for intricate initiatives within Figure Markets and enhance shared experiences across Figure Lending and other offerings.

• Transform vague or incomplete product specifications into clear, end-to-end user experiences.

• Recognize absent logic, dependencies, edge cases, and potential opportunities.

• Cultivate a deep understanding of financial concepts, customer workflows, business models, and technical limitations.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams from problem identification through to implementation.

• Investigate solutions to challenging issues, articulate tradeoffs, and support product decisions.

• Design complex workflows, data-intensive interfaces, account and transaction experiences, permissions, states, and interaction models.

• Anticipate error states, lifecycle changes, permissions, regulatory constraints, system behavior, and downstream impacts.

• Create prototypes and high-fidelity designs.

• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of Figure’s design system and establish reusable design patterns.

• Work alongside Engineering during implementation to maintain design integrity and address constraints.

• Utilize research, customer feedback, product data, domain expertise, and cross-functional insights.

• Present design work to stakeholders and senior leadership.

• Offer critique and mentorship to fellow designers.

• Identify patterns and opportunities across Markets, Lending, and prospective product domains.

• Clarify complex issues, enhance team decision-making, and make sophisticated financial capabilities accessible and user-friendly.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of product design experience, including extensive involvement with complex products or major product segments.

• A portfolio showcasing robust product thinking, interaction design, and visual craftsmanship through real-world, shipped experiences.

• Proven history of addressing complex issues where requirements, customer needs, or the foundational product model were not fully defined at the beginning.

• Strong systems thinking and the ability to comprehend how decisions influence workflows, states, users, and other systems.

• Excellent interaction design skills for intricate workflows, data-rich products, and multi-step experiences.

• Solid visual design fundamentals, incorporating typography, hierarchy, layout, information density, interaction details, and product refinement.

• Capacity to independently manage work from initial problem framing to detailed design and execution.

• Comfort in closely collaborating with engineers and a sufficient understanding of technical systems to make pragmatic design choices.

• Strong communication and storytelling capabilities for both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience in influencing Product and Engineering partners and constructively questioning requirements.

• A collaborative mindset with the ability to give and receive direct, thoughtful feedback.

• A customer-first approach that emphasizes clarity, trust, and usability.

• Compliance with all company security policies and data handling protocols.

• Completion of mandatory security awareness training within specified timeframes.

• Timely reporting of suspected security incidents or suspicious activities to the Security team.

• Note: Figure will not sponsor work visas; candidates must verify their identity and eligibility to work in the United States.

• Preferred: experience in designing fintech, trading, investing, lending, crypto, capital markets, payments, or other financial products.

• Preferred: experience in regulated industries.

• Preferred: familiarity with institutional or professional financial workflows.

• Preferred: experience with complex account structures, transaction lifecycles, roles and permissions, or financial data.

• Preferred: experience contributing to design systems.

• Preferred: familiarity with front-end technologies and modern product development methodologies.

• Preferred: experience utilizing prototyping and emerging AI tools.

🏝️ Benefits

• 25% annual bonus target, paid quarterly.

• Company equity in the form of RSUs.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employees and their dependents on select plans.

• Company HSA, FSA, Dependent Care FSA, 401(k), and commuter benefits.

• Employer-paid life and disability insurance.

• 11 observed holidays and a PTO plan.

• Up to 12 weeks of paid family leave.

• Continuing education reimbursement.