Staff Product Designer

As a Staff Product Designer, you’ll impact the lives of everyday people and help them move from surviving to thriving with digital personal finance solutions. Behind our forward-thinking technology is a group of curious, innovative problem solvers creating next-level products backed by data and consumer-centric strategy. At Achieve, you’re encouraged to explore new technologies while working on exciting projects that directly impact our member’s success. 

In this role, you’ll be embedded within our Lending business unit, leading the design of consumer-facing experiences that help people confidently navigate complex financial decisions. You’ll work across end-to-end product journeys, from discovery and education through application, onboarding, and post-conversion experiences, across desktop and mobile platforms.

This is a senior individual contributor role for a designer who thrives in ambiguity, brings strong fintech experience, and can partner deeply with Product and Engineering to shape both strategy and execution.

What you’ll do: 

• Proactively partner with product managers, designers, engineers, marketers, and researchers in understanding key user needs and directly contributing to business objectives. 

• Build and develop user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs to communicate solutions to cross-functional partners.

• Translate business goals and regulatory constraints into clear, intuitive, and compliant user experiences.

• Influence product strategy by identifying opportunities, framing tradeoffs, and advocating for the user.

• Conduct competitive explorations and leverage conversion best practices to develop new and innovative approaches to boost performance.

• Use, contribute to, and evolve our design system to maintain consistency and scalability across products.

• Take ownership of learning the industry and helping your teams reach business outcomes through a data-driven approach.

• Facilitate design workshops, brainstorming sessions, and collaborative activities to foster a co-creation environment and ensure design quality.

• Enable teams to build products without friction through detailed documentation of guidelines, recommendations, and processes.

• Effectively communicate the intention and constraints within your design work to partners and stakeholders in order to drive clarity and alignment.

• Mentor other designers and support their growth through guidance, feedback, and setting an example of best practices. 

Qualifications

What you’ll bring:

• 8+ years’ experience working as an Individual Contributor as a hands-on Designer on multiple products 

• Comfort working within regulated or compliance-heavy environments.

• Proficiency in industry-standard design tools.

• Experience in creating consumer facing design solutions that scale across platforms and devices (desktop, mobile, etc).

• Demonstrate a high bar of quality in both interaction & visual design and strong technical skills. 

• Knowledgeable about new technologies and processes within the field of design, WCAG requirements, Android, and iOS guidelines. 

• Track-record of success working with a variety of cross-functional stakeholders and partners.

• Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal, and analytical skills. Ability to communicate complex interaction concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences across the organization.

Nice to have:

• Curiosity and proactive experimentation with emerging AI tools, balanced with a strong sense of product quality, ethics, and user trust.

• Experience using and contributing to a design system.

• Experience in evangelizing consumer-centered thinking across all levels, creating a vision, and aligning teams to execute it.

• Experience in lending products such as personal loans, home loans, or credit products.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Achieve well-being with:

• 401 (k) with employer match
• Medical, dental, and vision with HSA and FSA options  
• Competitive vacation and sick time off, as well as dedicated volunteer days
• Access to wellness support through Employee Assistance Program, physical and mental health wellness programs
• Pet care discounts for your furry family members
• Financial support in times of hardship with our Achieve Care Fund
• A safe place to connect and a commitment to diversity and inclusion through our six employee resource groups 

We are proudly offering hybrid options in the San Mateo, CA and Phoenix, AZ metro market. In other locations throughout the country, we offer work from home.

Salary Range: $165,000 to $200,000 plus bonus and benefits.  

This information represents the expected salary range for this role. Should we decide to make an offer for employment, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

Join Achieve, change the future.

At Achieve, we’re changing millions of lives.
From the single parent trying to catch up on bills to the entrepreneur needing a loan for the next phase of growth, you’ll get to be a part of their journey to a better financial future. We’re proud to have over 3,000 employees in mostly hybrid and 100% remote roles across the United States with hubs in Arizona, California, and Texas. We are strategically growing our teams with more remote, work-from-home opportunities every day to better serve our members. A career at Achieve is more than a job—it’s a place where you can make a true impact, have a sense of belonging, establish a fulfilling career, and put your well-being first.

Attention Agencies & Search Firms: We do not accept unsolicited candidate resumes or profiles. Please do not reach out to anyone within Achieve to market your services or candidates. All inquiries should be directed to Talent Acquisition only. We reserve the right to hire any candidates sent unsolicited and will not pay any fees without a contract signed by Achieve’s Talent Acquisition leader.

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About the Company

Achieve is a leading digital personal finance company. We help everyday people move from struggling to thriving by providing innovative, personalized financial solutions. By leveraging proprietary data and analytics, our solutions are tailored for each step of our member's financial journey to include personal loans, home equity loans, debt consolidation, financial tools and education. Every day, we get to help our members move their finances forward with care, compassion, and empathetic touch. We put people first and treat them like humans, not account numbers.

Since 2002, Achieve has grown into one of the largest private consumer fintech unicorns in the U.S., with over $40B in enrollments for our industry-leading, tech-enabled debt resolution services business, and over $11Bn in personal and home loans originations via our banking-as-a-service partner.