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Principal Product Designer

Chime
Hybrid - New York, NY or San Francisco, CA, 4 days/weekUpdated 2d ago
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
Role family
Design
Fintech
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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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