Staff Product Designer

Imprint is hiring a Staff Product Designer in New York, NY (onsite) to lead complex initiatives that improve member experiences.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to uncover high-impact opportunities tied to customer needs, business goals, and product insights
• Define problems proactively, challenge assumptions, and influence product priorities and direction
• Lead complex, ambiguous workstreams from discovery through launch and iterative improvement
• Blend near-term product improvements with longer-term opportunities to improve the customer experience
• Bring structure to ambiguous problems, enabling teams to make thoughtful decisions and move forward
• Own the end-to-end design process: discovery and concept exploration, through detailed interaction design, prototyping, and delivery
• Translate complex financial products and workflows into simple, intuitive, engaging experiences
• Explore multiple solution approaches, define design principles, and explain the rationale behind decisions
• Create experiences that balance usability, accessibility, business objectives, and technical feasibility
• Partner with Engineering during implementation to maintain quality and integrity of shipped work
• Validate solutions using research, data, and customer feedback to drive continuous product improvement
• Build trusted partnerships with Product Managers and Engineers as an equal contributor to product outcomes
• Facilitate collaborative problem-solving around shared goals and well-considered solutions
• Navigate competing priorities and constraints, making pragmatic tradeoffs while protecting the customer experience
• Communicate design decisions clearly to align stakeholders and leadership
• Take shared ownership of product outcomes, beyond design deliverables
• Maintain a high bar for UX craft, interaction design, and overall experience quality
• Contribute to a culture of critique, continuous learning, and collaborative problem-solving
• Mentor designers and teammates to strengthen craft, judgment, and strategic thinking
• Identify opportunities to improve design practices, workflows, and collaboration across the organization
• Help evolve and adopt the design system, balancing consistency with opportunities for innovation
• Use emerging AI tools and workflows to accelerate discovery, exploration, prototyping, and execution
• Experiment with new working methods to increase design velocity without reducing quality
• Help shape how Design collaborates with Product and Engineering as AI changes product development
• Bring curiosity and adaptability, including a willingness to challenge traditional approaches to software design and building

Requirements

• 7+ years of product design experience, including leading complex, high-impact initiatives from discovery through launch and iteration
• Exceptional UX and interaction design skills shown through strong craft, thoughtful problem-solving, and measurable outcomes
• Strong product judgment connecting customer needs with business goals and balancing near-term improvements with long-term vision
• Proven ability to independently identify opportunities, frame problems, explore compelling solutions, and influence product direction
• Strong partnership with Product and Engineering to navigate ambiguity, evaluate tradeoffs, and prioritize based on impact and effort
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills to articulate design rationale, build alignment, and influence stakeholders at all levels
• A pragmatic, iterative design approach balancing speed and quality through feedback and thoughtful phasing of solutions

Technologies

• Figma
• Storybook
• Design tokens
• React
• TypeScript

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages
• Leading configured work computers of your choice
• Flexible paid time off
• Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage
• Additional health coverage including access to One Medical and an option to enroll in an FSA
• 20 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents
• Access to industry-leading technology across business units, aligned with investing in team resources that support innovation, optimization, and productivity

Nice to have

• Experience designing complex financial products, consumer fintech experiences, or regulated workflows
• Experience working in fast-moving, high-growth startup environments
• Experience evolving and scaling design systems, improving patterns, strengthening consistency, and contributing to a more cohesive product experience
• Familiarity with experimentation, product analytics, and research-driven design
• Experience using AI-assisted design, prototyping, or development tools
• Familiarity with frontend technologies and modern design-to-development workflows

Stack

• Figma, Storybook, design tokens
• Frontend component libraries (React/TypeScript)
• AI-assisted design and development tooling

What success looks like

• Led meaningful product initiatives from problem definition through launch, delivering measurable customer and business impact
• Built trusted partnerships with Product, Engineering, Commercial, and other stakeholders to shape priorities and improve product decisions
• Introduced thoughtful, innovative, intuitive solutions to complex customer problems while maintaining high standards for usability and craft
• Helped teams move faster and make better decisions through clear design rationale, effective collaboration, and pragmatic execution
• Elevated design quality through mentorship, critique, shared practices, and contribution to the design system
• Helped evolve how design and product teams build together, adopting new tools and approaches to improve effectiveness

Compensation and location

• Location: New York, NY (onsite)
• Salary: USD 190,000 - 250,000 per year

Learn more about how Imprint builds on their engineering blog: https://tech.imprint.co/