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[Remote] Staff Product Designer / Payments / Remote
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Motion Recruitment is recruiting for an unnamed global fintech company. The Staff Product Designer will shape the brand and product experience, expand design systems, and lead new financial product offerings from concept through launch across mobile, web, and internal tools.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the visual identity and product experience of a global consumer fintech brand
- Own the expansion of the design system, including design tokens, motion, content patterns, reusable components, and documentation
- Lead new product offerings from early hypotheses through design, launch, and measurement of customer and business impact
- Establish and maintain high standards for visual quality, interaction design, and overall product craft
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Growth, Compliance, and Go-to-Market teams to deliver cohesive customer experiences
- Translate ambiguous business challenges, new market opportunities, and regulatory constraints into practical product solutions
- Use research, prototypes, and customer insights to inform product strategy and roadmap decisions
- Leverage AI-powered tools to accelerate prototyping, explore more concepts, and streamline design-to-development workflows
- Partner with engineers to deliver high-quality implementations across mobile, web, and internal tools
- Determine when design details require pixel-level precision and when pragmatic tradeoffs are appropriate
- Help define the standards for what constitutes a complete, high-quality product experience
- Raise the design capabilities of the broader organization through strong execution, collaboration, and thoughtful decision-making
Skills
- Extensive experience in product design, with a portfolio demonstrating both depth and versatility
- Experience taking consumer-facing mobile products from ambiguous concepts through launch
- Strong visual design fundamentals, including typography, visual hierarchy, information architecture, and content strategy
- Experience developing and scaling design systems beyond component libraries, including tokens, patterns, documentation, and reusable infrastructure
- Ability to translate complex customer needs and business challenges into intuitive, polished product experiences
- Strong systems thinking, with an understanding of how individual screens connect to broader workflows and product architecture
- Experience collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, Growth, and other cross-functional stakeholders
- Strong ownership and ability to independently drive ambiguous projects from concept through execution
- Experience influencing product roadmaps and decisions through research, prototypes, and tangible deliverables
- Excellent attention to detail, with the judgment to balance visual polish against speed and practical constraints
- Strong customer empathy and a commitment to designing around real user needs
- Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and high expectations for execution
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future
- Experience in fintech, payments, remittances, marketplaces, or other high-trust consumer product categories
- Experience designing products for international markets or diverse customer populations
- Familiarity with financial services and the challenges of designing for regulated environments
- Experience evolving a consumer brand while maintaining customer trust and usability
- Experience designing motion, micro-interactions, and content patterns across mobile and web
- Hands-on use of AI tools for prototyping, component generation, code-assisted design, and workflow automation
- Ability to deliver front-end prototypes or implementation-ready work that closely reflects the intended design
- Experience launching new product categories or building products from the ground up
- Experience mentoring designers and raising craft standards across a growing team
Benefits
- Remote work environment
- Opportunity to work across a global fintech platform serving more than 70 markets
- Significant ownership over brand direction, design systems, and new product development
- Opportunity to influence product strategy and roadmaps
- Collaborative, international team environment
- Opportunity to use emerging AI tools to accelerate design and product development
- Meaningful opportunity to improve access to financial services for global communities
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