Principal Product Designer
Chime- Base salary
- $222k–$290k Published base salary range
- Location
- Hybrid - New York, NY or San Francisco, CA, 4 days/week Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Staff / Principal
About the job
Chime is hiring a Principal Product Designer to lead the design vision for high-impact, member-facing experiences in consumer fintech. This high-ownership role for a senior design leader involves defining long-term product vision, executing polished and intuitive experiences, and partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Research, Marketing, and Analytics.
Responsibilities
- Set the product and design vision for complex, cross-functional initiatives, ensuring alignment with member needs and business goals.
- Raise the bar for design execution, championing strong craft, thoughtful interaction design, and scalable visual systems.
- Apply AI-powered tools within the design process to accelerate ideation, exploration, and prototyping.
- Translate ambiguous product challenges into clear, elegant, and accessible design solutions.
- Provide design leadership and mentorship across teams without formal people management.
Qualifications
- A strategic, high-impact portfolio demonstrating strong product thinking, clear design strategy, and excellent craft.
- Track record of designing and shipping impactful consumer products at scale across mobile and web.
- Expertise in tools like Figma and modern prototyping workflows, including AI-powered design tools.
- Experience working with and evolving design systems to ensure consistency and scalability.
Compensation: Base salary from $222,000 to $290,000; full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits.
Benefits: Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits; backup child, elder, and pet care; subsidized commuter benefits; generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off; annual wellness stipend; up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents; family planning reimbursement.
Work policy: Four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for those near one of Chime's offices.
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