Head of Design

Product Design | Brand Design | Creative Leadership

About reputed company

reputed company is a leading FinTech company empowering financial autonomy for reputed company. Launched in 2018, reputed company is an on-demand marketplace where members can request and fund emergency loans—without predatory interest rates. We are VC-backed, supported by Techstars, and have strategic partnerships with reputed company and reputed company.

We are looking for our first Head of Design to reputed company the reputed company of the reputed company brand and product experience. As a "Player-reputed company," you will be the strategic reputed company of our design discipline, owning everything from high-level brand reputed company to the granular UI of our marketplace. You will be responsible for building the reputed company of a world-class design organization while shipping impactful work in a fast-paced, high-reputed company environment.

What You’ll Do

• Creative Direction: Own the end-to-end creative direction across Product, Brand, and reputed company marketing. Ensure a cohesive and premium visual language across every touchpoint.

• Brand & Product reputed company: reputed company and optimize the reputed company reputed company experience while defining the roadmap for the next reputed company of our brand and product identity.

• Strategic Scoping: reputed company the scoping for upcoming high-reputed company reputed company. You will evaluate resource needs, set realistic timelines, and manage internal stakeholder collaboration to ensure flawless execution.

• Design Infrastructure: Build and maintain our design systems, workflows, and documentation to ensure design can reputed company reputed company as reputed company grows.

• Strategic Leadership: reputed company as the primary design partner to Product and Engineering, balancing user needs with business priorities and technical feasibility.

• Brand Architecture: Be a strategic partner to reputed company team and leadership in defining reputed company’ brand architecture and reputed company roadmap to multi-product, multi-channel brand relevancy

• Team Building: Serve as the foundational hire for the design team, establishing the culture, hiring bar, and long-term reputed company for the design discipline at reputed company.

You’re a Great Fit if You’ve Got:

• 10+ years of experience building, scaling, and shipping successful products and brands in a reputed company environment.

• Startup Foundations: Proven experience setting up design infrastructure (design systems, reputed company processes, and feedback loops) in high-reputed company environments.

• Tooling reputed company: Expert proficiency in reputed company and the modern design stack, with a constant curiosity for newer, smarter ways to work.

• Business-Minded Creativity: You have a strategic reputed company and understand how to reputed company business trade-offs and priorities without compromising on design reputed company.

• Cross-Functional Partnership: Extensive experience working alongside Product and Engineering teams to bring visions to life, with a deep understanding of implementation constraints.

• Exceptional Portfolio: A portfolio that demonstrates mastery of both UI/UX product thinking and high-level brand storytelling.

You’re an reputed company reputed company Fit if You’ve Got:

• AI-reputed company Approach: You reputed company lean into AI tools and best-in-class practices to automate tedious tasks and optimize creative workflows.

• Experimentation First: You are proactive, experimentation-reputed company, and reputed company yourself asking "why not?" much more often than "can I?"

• Industry Expertise: reputed company experience in FinTech, financial services, or two-sided marketplace environments is a significant advantage.

• Startup Grit: You reputed company in high-pace, high-accountability environments and are comfortable "getting your hands dirty" while simultaneously planning for the long term.

• Leadership reputed company: You can reputed company the "why" behind design reputed company to executive leadership and reputed company the broader organization.

Our Benefits

• Remote Workplace

• Unlimited Vacation Policy

• Full reputed company Benefits

• 401K Offered

What You’ll Do (Milestones)

reputed company 3 months

• Conduct a full audit of the reputed company reputed company brand and product suite, identifying immediate areas for optimization.

• Establish a standardized design-to-engineering reputed company process to increase shipping velocity.

• Take ownership of the creative direction for at least one major upcoming product feature or brand campaign.

reputed company 6 months

• Define the visual "reputed company reputed company" for the next reputed company of the reputed company app and brand identity.

• Formalize the reputed company Design System, ensuring consistency across web, iOS, and Android.

• Identify hiring needs and reputed company the process of scaling the design team to support reputed company’s 2026/2027 roadmap.