Lead Product Designer, Banking

Step is hiring a Lead Product Designer to lead product, design, and UX strategy for its core banking platform. The role involves designing mobile and web experiences, driving projects from concept through release, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape product strategy and improve design quality.

Responsibilities:

• Design high quality interactive experiences across mobile, both iOS and Android, and web
• Lead projects throughout the entire design process; from creative conception to production and release
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering and Marketing to help define strategy, and the roadmap to achieve business objectives (growth)
• Collaborate and give feedback/direction to other designers to continually push the level of quality on the team
• Evaluate current processes, identify best practices, develop plans to reach goals and implement improvements
• Utilize and contribute to the Step Design System

Requirements:

• Significant demonstrated experience with end-to-end (hybrid UX and UI) product design for consumer-facing products
• The ideal candidate has significant experience leading design for consumer fintech products
• Thinks in systems, designing solutions that scale across products, adapt to future needs, and create consistency beyond individual features
• Strong visual design sensibility with the range to move fluidly between systemized UI and more expressive, brand-forward moments
• A craft-obsessed designer who strives for quality and has an amazing attention to detail
• The ability to lead design for important projects with experience delegating work and giving direction to other designers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (you should be able to clearly articulate your design decisions and the logic behind them)
• The ability to think at a high level about product strategy and vision (not just 'how it should look' but 'what we should build')
• Experience in building and shipping applications or software (mobile/web)
• Uses AI as a creative and productivity multiplier — able to move faster and explore more ideas without sacrificing craft or judgment
• Must have a portfolio featuring examples of design work
• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• Experience building and maintaining scalable design systems
• Ability to translate designs into production-quality code