Summary
Join our team as a Staff Product Designer to lead key design efforts across the Product Infrastructure team, defining the design vision and executing strategies that influence user experience at a systems level.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in user-centered product design, with a strong portfolio of work
- Experience with large-scale platform products and collaboration tools
- Experience in designing B2B SaaS product
- Ability to balance methodological rigor with scrappiness and creativity in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Responsibilities
- Design in Ambiguity: Embrace the challenge of designing from the ground up, leading the creation of 0-to-1 user experiences for our upcoming infrastructure projects, while navigating evolving business requirements and ambiguity
- Think in Modularity: Lead the design of highly configurable system-level functionalities. Create small, interchangeable components that adapt to different use cases efficiently
- Consider Diverse User Roles: Advocate for the needs of user roles from IT professionals to Client Experience agents and back-office teams, through user-centered design. Ensure designs can scale and support varied user experiences
- Evolve Design System: Contribute to and refine Valon’s design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across all products
- Create Customizable Systems: Build flexible, user-friendly interfaces that empower subservicers to customize workflows, process management, and automation for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Simplify Complex Information: Design information architecture that simplifies complex loan data sets, making them easily accessible and contextually relevant for users—ensuring data is organized effectively
- Drive User Journeys & Prototyping: Develop and iterate on user flows, wireframes, and prototypes, ensuring design decisions are aligned with business and user needs—particularly for complex mortgage servicing use cases
- Champion Cross-Functional and Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with product, engineering, and business teams to ensure design solutions are feasible, aligned with objectives, and informed by insights from other teams
- Provide Design Mentorship: Collaborate with other Product Designers, providing constructive and motivating feedback that helps improve their skills and the outcomes of their work. Actively participate in design critiques to ensure quality and consistency across Valon products
Benefits
- Base salary band: $167,450 to $226,550
- Compensation: competitive salary with a meaningful stake in the company via equity, and 401k plan
- Health & well-being: we’ll invest in your physical and mental well-being with comprehensive medical, dental, & vision benefits
- Food & meals: in-office snacks and drinks, and a $400 monthly stipend towards your lunches or groceries
- Commuter benefits: We offer pre-tax deductions for public transportation, rideshare services, and parking expenses to make your commute more affordable and convenient
- Grow together: Company wide orientation for you to successfully onboard and other learning & development opportunities including regular review cycles that feature 360 degree feedback
- Play together: quarterly budgets for team and company outings. Use it for team swag, cooking classes, or team dinners!
- Generous time off: flexible paid time off, sick days, and 11 company holidays
- Baby bonding time!: 12 weeks off for both birthing and non-birthing parents - fully paid so you can focus your energy on your newest addition
