Senior Product Designer (Engagement)

NerdWallet's mission is to bring clarity to all of life's financial decisions. The Engagement team helps millions of people take real action with their finances, tracking spending, monitoring credit, building net worth, and discovering the right financial products. The team is in the early stages of an AI-native transformation, shifting from traditional design-and-handoff workflows toward a model where design, prototyping, and deployment are deeply augmented by AI.

As a Senior Product Designer on the Engagement team, you'll own end-to-end design for one or more product pods, shaping user experiences that bring people back to NerdWallet. You'll work at the intersection of user needs, business outcomes, and technical possibility, partnering closely with Product and Engineering. This role reports to the VP, Product and Design.

• Define a design vision that balances user needs with engagement and monetization goals, developing end-to-end journeys with a systems mindset.
• Partner with Product to shape roadmap priorities and advocate for the user based on industry trends and competitive insight.
• Leverage AI-powered tools to accelerate ideation and prototype AI-driven experiences — including personalized recommendations, conversational interfaces, and adaptive content.
• Help evolve the team's design workflow in an AI-native development model.
• Deliver production-ready designs at pace, contributing to NerdWallet's design system through reusable components.
• Maintain a high bar for quality across iOS, Android, and mobile web, iterating on qualitative and quantitative signals.
• Partner with PMs, Engineers, and Analysts on usability tests and concept validation, and use analytics, funnel data, and A/B results to evaluate decisions.
• Translate ambiguous problems into clearly framed design challenges with measurable success criteria.
• Build strong relationships across Engineering, Product, QA, and Marketing.
• Communicate design decisions through well-crafted artifacts and presentations, and contribute to a culture of critique and continuous improvement.

• 5+ years of professional product design experience, ideally in a consumer-facing tech environment
• A portfolio demonstrating strong craft across end-to-end product work — from problem framing and flows to polished UI and shipped outcomes
• Proficiency in Figma, including component-based design and prototyping
• Experience designing for native mobile apps (iOS and/or Android) and mobile web
• Demonstrated ability to use research and data to drive and explain design decisions
• Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to clearly articulate design rationale to non-design stakeholders
• Familiarity with AI-powered features — such as personalization, recommendations, conversational UI, or adaptive interfaces — or an eagerness to grow in this area
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and fast-paced environments where the problem definition is still evolving

Compensation: $115K – $195K salary, plus equity.

Benefits include: industry-leading medical, dental, and vision plans; flexible vacation time off plus 11 holidays and holiday company shutdown; new parent leave; mental health support; paid sabbatical after 5 years; health and dependent care FSA and HSA with monthly NerdWallet contribution; monthly wellness, cell phone, and wifi stipends (wifi for remote employees); work-from-home equipment stipend and co-working space subsidy (remote employees); employee resource groups; hackathons and team events; company-wide events; volunteer time off (8 hours per quarter) with company match; 401K with 4% company match; access to new financial products; financial wellness and access to a Certified Financial Planner; disability and life insurance with employer-paid premiums.

Apply via the provided application link.