Senior Product Designer

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. You'll report to the Product Design Lead for Engagement.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• Familiarity with AI-powered features or eagerness to grow in this area.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and fast-paced environments.

Salary range: $115,000 – $195,000 USD, plus equity. Benefits include industry-leading medical, dental, and vision plans, flexible vacation time off, 11 holidays, new parent leave, mental health support, paid sabbatical after 5 years, FSA/HSA with company contribution, monthly wellness and cell phone stipends, wifi stipend for remote employees, work-from-home equipment stipend, co-working space subsidy, 401(k) with 4% company match, disability and life insurance, and more.

This role is remote based in the U.S.