Product Designer, Unsecured Lending

Upstart is a leading AI lending marketplace focused on reducing the cost and complexity of borrowing for all Americans. The Product Designer for Unsecured Lending will support feature-level design work, collaborating closely with product managers and engineers to create high-quality, user-centered designs that enhance borrower experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Design end-to-end user experiences across borrower-facing flows
• Translate product requirements into wireframes, interactive prototypes,, and high-fidelity visual designs
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to align on scope, constraints, and implementation details
• Deliver production-ready designs and ensure design intent is preserved through development handoff
• Incorporate user feedback, data insights, and stakeholder input to iterate on designs
• Partner with adjacent teams (e.g., Growth) to ensure seamless experiences across the borrower journey

Requirements:

• 3+ years of product design experience, owning small-to-medium projects end-to-end
• End-to-end design: problem/goal definition, rapid user testing and user research, wireframing and strong iterative instincts, interaction and visual design including strong typography skills, running an articulate and repeatable user-centered design process
• Proficiency in Figma, strong fluency in GenAI tools
• Gives, receives, and incorporates feedback at each stage
• Gets stakeholder buy-in; delivers smooth design handoffs where resolution matches design intent
• Understands business context at a high level and how design impacts it
• Fluency in working within design systems
• Experience with complex multi-step flows with branching outcomes and plentiful edge cases (applications, forms, comparison tools)
• Strong familiarity with contributing to or advancing design systems
• Experience in Fintech, lending, insurance, or other heavily regulated consumer products
• Experience working in a triad model (PM/Eng/Design)