Product Design Lead at Branch

Job Overview

You will work closely with our Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams to build a world-class financial app for millions of customers across the world to use daily. You will lead our global design team to design new user flows and improve the overall design and user experience of the Branch app. The design team’s work encompasses all user journeys within the app across all of our products (wallets, savings, loans, rewards, debit cards).

Responsibilities

• Lead our global design team through project management and mentorship. Ensure that all user flows meet our product design principles and meet a high standard of quality.
• Contribute to product strategy through a design lens by helping to define problems, ideate possible solutions, and design journeys and product experiences
• Maintain and develop our global product design system, particularly components within the Branch app that are used across all our markets.
• Iteratively design, prototype, and test new releases of the Branch app. Develop user flows and mock-ups based on feedback from our customers and internal teams.
• Help designers on the team grow through mentorship, sharing their work, and pushing their boundaries.
• Support marketing efforts by developing marketing collateral, including graphics, websites, and videos, as well as brand campaigns across multimedia channels in our global markets as needed.

Qualifications

• You have 5 to 8 years of experience in Product Design, User Experience Design and/or Interaction Design with a demonstrated ability to design world-class, delightful software consumer experiences. Knowledge of best practices in mobile design for Android is a plus. 
• You have expertise across a range of design skills, including strong visual design abilities. You have excellent attention to detail and take pride in delivering consistent, cohesive designs that empower our customers.
• You have successfully led and mentored a team of product designers. You are an organized and methodical project manager that can prioritize and execute multiple projects and requests in parallel.
• You know that startups are a team sport. Your effective communication and powerful collaboration are critical to succeed at Branch because of our globally distributed teams. You listen to others, speak your mind, and ask the right questions. You are a great collaborator and teacher. Effective written communication skills are especially important.
• You are resourceful. You’ve worked on lean teams that have had a big impact. You are not afraid of big challenges, and you do whatever it takes to get the job done.