Behance

Lead Product Designer

Behance$120K — $160K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6-8+ years of product design experience in complex digital products
  • Proven experience leading large, cross-functional initiatives from discovery through launch
  • Experience designing regulated, transactional, or multi-step workflows
  • Strong systems thinking and journey-level design perspective
  • Demonstrated ability to connect UX decisions to business impact
  • High proficiency in Figma and prototyping tools
  • Experience working in agile product teams

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end borrower experience across complex workflows
  • Define experience north stars and long-term UX strategy
  • Identify systemic friction across journeys and drive modernization efforts
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to shape roadmap direction
  • Resolve cross-team experience tradeoffs for borrower-first solutions
  • Operate as an AI-native designer using advanced design tools
  • Lead design QA and iteration cycles to ensure quality

Benefits

  • Day One Coverage for health benefits
  • Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage
  • Immediate access to mental health support with licensed providers
  • Employer contributions to Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Employer-Funded Dependent Care FSA for childcare support
  • Disability & Life Insurance provided at no cost
  • Flexible PTO for personal recharge
  • Extra perks including discounts and pet insurance
Full Job Description
The Opportunity

We're looking for a highly creative, AI-native Lead Product Designer to define and elevate the future of the Better customer experience.

This is a senior individual contributor role with significant influence. You'll operate as a design leader-owning complex product areas end-to-end, shaping experience strategy, and raising the bar for craft-while remaining deeply hands-on.

This role is ideal for someone who is:
  • Obsessed with design quality and craft
  • Excited by AI-native product experiences
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building from first principles
  • Energized by fast-paced, startup-like environments


You'll act as a bridge between product, design, and engineering-guiding direction while staying close to the work.

What You'll Own

AI-Native Product Experiences
  • Design and evolve AI-driven user journeys, including conversational, assistive, and predictive experiences
  • Reimagine traditional flows (e.g., mortgage, refi, savings) into intelligent, goal-based experiences
  • Explore new paradigms for AI-assisted decision-making and user guidance


End-to-End Experience Design
  • Own complex, multi-step product journeys from concept through execution
  • Simplify high-friction workflows into intuitive, user-centered experiences
  • Design across web and mobile, ensuring consistency across all touchpoints


Creative Craft & Design Quality
  • Set a high bar for visual design, interaction design, and UX clarity
  • Deliver polished, high-fidelity designs with strong attention to detail
  • Push the team toward more creative, differentiated product experiences


Systems Thinking & Scale
  • Design scalable patterns across complex workflows and product surfaces
  • Contribute to and evolve the design system
  • Ensure consistency without sacrificing flexibility or creativity


Cross-Functional Influence
  • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and leadership to shape direction
  • Act as a design voice in strategic decisions
  • Balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints


Mentorship & Design Leadership
  • Mentor other designers through critique and collaboration
  • Help elevate overall design culture and standards
  • Act as a hands-on leader without direct people management responsibility


AI-Native Design Practice
  • Actively use tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Figma AI, and emerging technologies in your daily workflow
  • Leverage AI for:
  • Rapid ideation and prototyping
  • User flow exploration
  • Content generation and testing
  • Continuously experiment with new tools to increase speed and creative output


What You Bring
  • 6-10+ years of product design experience in consumer-facing digital products
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality UX and visual design craft
  • Experience designing complex, multi-step workflows (not just simple apps)
  • Background in startup or high-growth environments preferred
  • Proven ability to operate as a senior IC with leadership influence
  • Strong systems thinking and ability to work across end-to-end journeys
  • High proficiency in Figma and modern prototyping tools
  • Demonstrated use of AI tools in your design workflow
  • Ability to work onsite in NYC


Who You Are
  • Design-obsessed with a strong point of view on craft and quality
  • Curious and experimental, especially with AI and emerging technologies
  • Not overly tied to traditional or corporate design approaches
  • Comfortable working in ambiguity and building from first principles
  • Collaborative, low-ego, and highly motivated


Why This Role
  • Opportunity to redefine how people experience home finance through AI
  • Work on complex, meaningful problems with real user impact
  • High ownership and influence as a senior IC
  • Shape the future of AI-driven product experiences at scale


What We Offer
  • Performance-driven compensation
    Competitive base salary with bonus or incentive opportunities, depending on role
  • Comprehensive, flexible health benefits
    A range of medical and dental plans to choose from based on your needs, with vision coverage available for you and your family starting on day one.
  • Financial wellbeing & long-term support
    Build long-term financial security with a 401(k) through Vanguard, HSA with employer contributions, FSA's, Employer Paid STD & LTD plans and access to financial planning resources.
  • Time to recharge
    Generous paid time off, company holidays, sick time, and paid parental leave.
  • Support for families
    Paid parental leave and childcare support, including employer matching for dependent care FSA.
  • Holistic wellbeing support
    Mental health care (6 free virtual or in-person sessions) and wellness programs through Spring Health, EAP access, and additional perks like pet insurance and lifestyle discounts.
  • Flexibility in how you work and live
    Pre-tax Commuter benefit accounts with an employer match, and programs designed to support different working styles and lifestyles.
  • Daily perks that make work better
    Meal and snack offerings in select offices, plus a stipend to support your day-to-day - whether you're in the office or working remotely.
  • An exceptional NYC office experience
    Work from our World Trade Center headquarters - featuring thoughtfully designed spaces, natural light, and panoramic skyline views. It's a space built for collaboration, creativity, and bringing bold ideas to life.
  • High-impact work at a category-defining moment
    Help shape the brand of an AI-native company reinventing homeownership from the ground up.


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