Senior Product Designer (Remote)

At Earnest, we believe in a world where paying for your education takes less time than earning your degree.  Join us on our mission to empower anyone seeking higher education to reduce the total price tag of their degree, supercharge their ability to pay down student debt, and get on the right financial track fast.

A little background on Earnest: We're a remote first FinTech company with an accomplished team who believe consumer lending can be radically improved and are doing something about it. We are disrupting the trillion dollar student loan industry by redefining what it means to be creditworthy. We created a company that combines data science, streamlined design, and technology to:

• Build products that simplify the lending process
• Personalize loans to suit the needs of our customers
• Engage with our customers through more human experiences

What makes an “Earnie” culture: 

Earnest’s culture is as dynamic as the products we’re building and defining every day. We’re a fast-growing company, and that means we’re constantly integrating the new perspectives of every individual.

Earnies define our culture as:

• Earn Happy Clients
• Client happiness is our true north star.
• Make it happen
• We work hard to deliver high-impact results at rapid pace. 
• Growth Mindset
• We love challenges, enjoy rigorous effort, and learn from our mistakes as we continuously improve. 
• Do great things together 
• Success is built on relationships. 
• Insist on high standards 
• We have relentlessly high standards and continuously raise the bar on the quality of everything: our products, services, processes, and people.  

Our Earnie's are fun, innovative, and willing to rollup their sleeves to help their team succeed in a fast-paced environment. If this sounds like you, and you want to join us on our mission to radically disrupt a trillion dollar fintech industry, keep reading to find out how.

As Senior Product Designer you will lead experience design and design strategy for user-facing products. Combining an understanding of business opportunities with a deep empathy for the user, you ensure an engaging product experience that works for every user. Your role will be responsible for expanding the Earnest User Journey, finding new ways to cater to our students and building out the Earnest ecosystem. You’ll be collaborating deeply with cross-functional teams across the organization to identify and build tools and products while also maintaining a lot of autonomy over your work.

You will report to the Head of Design and Research at Earnest, and you will:

• Create and iterate on solutions that are inspired by a deep empathy for our users
• Identify key opportunities to meet and prioritize user and business needs
• Use research and data to inform and implement solutions
• Own design strategy and communicate a vision
• Collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, Analytics and Research to define solutions and contribute to the overall direction of your product area
• Partner with Product Managers to develop the strategy and rationale for solutions
• Partner closely with Engineering to ensure our implementation and user experience is of high-quality
• Develop strategic insights and strategies to guide UX development
• Design processes, features, and components that can be used across products
• Present your ideas and work up to your team and the company
• Mentor junior members of the Design team

Ideal background and expertise:

• 5+ years designing web-based products, with experience with UX
• High proficiency in Figma
• Familiarity with other UX/UI software for creating flows, prototypes
• Ability to analyze and use data and research to inform decisions
• Experience leading and launching end-to-end product / product features
• Experience in working and collaborating with diverse teams in a dynamic, rapid growth environment
• Attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills to break down and solve complex problems
• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally
• Experience presenting product solutions and ideas up to senior management level

Earnest believes in enabling our employees to live their best lives. We offer a variety of perks and competitive benefits that include: 

• Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
• Work anywhere in the U.S. 
• Mac computers + work from home stipend to set up your home office
• Monthly internet and phone reimbursement
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
• Robust tuition reimbursement program
• $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world 
• Competitive days of annual PTO
• Annual “my day” 
• Pet insurance!
• Competitive parental leave
• Plenty of Earnest swag, optional in person team gatherings, picnics, celebrations, and plenty of fun virtual events 

At Earnest, we are committed to building an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging enables us to move forward with our mission. We are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage anyone to apply if your experience is close to what we are looking for.  

Earnest provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for the position in a manner consistent with the Fair Chance Ordinance.

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