Wells Fargo

Lead Product Designer — Home Lending Research & Design

Wells Fargo$119K — $206K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in Online and Digital Product Design or related fields.
  • Advanced proficiency with Figma, prototyping tools, and AI-assisted design tools.
  • Strong portfolio showcasing end-to-end UX/UI expertise.
  • Exceptional skills in facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management.
  • Experience designing complex digital products or enterprise platforms across various industries.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design of intricate customer and employee experiences in Home Lending.
  • Apply service design and systems thinking to enhance cross-product experiences.
  • Create comprehensive design artifacts from user flows to high-fidelity prototypes.
  • Utilize research and usability testing for informed design decisions.
  • Develop narratives connecting customer needs with business strategy.
  • Facilitate workshops and stakeholder sessions for design alignment.
  • Collaborate with Product and Technology teams to meet governance and compliance standards.

Benefits

  • Health benefits
  • 401(k) Plan
  • Paid time off
  • Disability benefits
  • Parental leave
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Adoption reimbursement
Full Job Description

About this Role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Product Designer to help shape the future of Home Lending for the customers and employees who experience it every day.

This role goes beyond designing individual screens or workflows. You will bring clarity to complex journeys, connect moments across the mortgage lifecycle, and create a cohesive story of where the experience is headed. Through thoughtful design and compelling visual and written storytelling, you will help teams envision the future, align around it, and turn that vision into experiences that are intuitive, accessible, and meaningful.

We are looking for a strategic, hands-on designer who can see the whole journey, translate complexity into possibility, and inspire others to build toward a shared vision.

In This Role, You Will

  • Lead the end-to-end design of complex customer and employee experiences across Home Lending, translating customer needs, business goals, operational requirements, and technical constraints into intuitive solutions.

  • Apply service design and systems thinking to improve experiences across products, channels, processes, and teams, including loan origination and servicing workflows.

  • Create user flows, information architecture, wireframes, high-fidelity designs, prototypes, reusable patterns, and other artifacts that move concepts from discovery through delivery.

  • Use research, usability testing, concept validation, design systems, and AI-enabled tools to accelerate learning, strengthen decisions, and improve experience quality.

  • Create compelling visual and written narratives that connect customer and employee needs, business strategy, and future-state concepts into a clear end-to-end story.

  • Facilitate workshops, journey mapping sessions, and stakeholder reviews; communicate design rationale and tradeoffs to align leaders and cross-functional partners.

  • Partner closely with Product, Technology, Content Strategy, and business teams throughout the product lifecycle while ensuring solutions meet accessibility, brand, compliance, and governance standards.

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of Online and Digital Product Design, Information Sciences, Graphic and Visual Arts experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

Desired Qualifications

  • Advanced proficiency with Figma, FigJam, prototyping tools, enterprise design systems, component-based frameworks, and AI-assisted design tools such as Figma Make or Copilot.

  • Experience designing complex digital products, enterprise platforms, operational workflows, or customer-facing experiences, including translating complex business processes into intuitive, scalable solutions.

  • Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end UX/UI expertise across discovery, interaction design, information architecture, visual design, prototyping, validation, and delivery.

  • Exceptional facilitation, communication, stakeholder management, and influence skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and align partners in a large, matrixed organization.

  • Demonstrated ability to tell complete, memorable stories through visual and written forms, supported by professional or personal work such as digital products, video games, novels, financial services, theme parks, entertainment, or other experience-driven environments.

  • Experience partnering with Product, Technology, Content Strategy, and business stakeholders throughout the product development lifecycle.

  • Experience conducting or supporting usability testing, research synthesis, and concept validation while applying accessibility, brand, and enterprise governance standards.

  • Experience with Home Lending, mortgage servicing, loan origination, financial services, regulated industries, or AI-powered, conversational, agentic, and intelligent workflow experiences.

What Will Make You Successful

  • Strategic and hands-on: You connect long-term vision to practical execution and turn complex, ambiguous problems into clear, actionable design direction.

  • Compelling storyteller: You create cohesive visual and written narratives that bring end-to-end customer and employee journeys to life.

  • Customer-centered and outcomes-focused: You balance customer insights and data with usability, accessibility, compliance, innovation, and business objectives.

  • Collaborative and influential: You build trusted cross-functional relationships, facilitate alignment, and move teams toward shared decisions.

  • Curious and forward-looking: You create scalable experience patterns and thoughtfully explore emerging technologies, including AI-enabled experiences.

Job Expectations

  • This position requires compliance with all mortgages regulatory requirements and Wells Fargo’s compliance policies related to these requirements. Successful candidates must also meet ongoing regulatory requirements, including additional screening and required reporting of certain incidents.

  • This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.

  • This position offers a hybrid work schedule. Telework or remote work setting is not available. Required locations are listed below. .

  • Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Posting Locations

  • Charlotte, NC — 1525 W. W.T. Harris Blvd.

  • Des Moines, IA — 800 S. Jordan Creek Pkwy.

  • Minneapolis, MN — 600 Wells Fargo

  • Irving, TX — 401 Las Colinas Blvd.

  • Tempe, AZ — 1150 W. Washington St.

  • Wilmington, DE — 2200 Concord Pike

  • Columbus, OH — 3075 Loyalty Circle

Posted Pay Range

  • Minnesota/Delaware: $131,000 to $206,000

  • Other posted locations: $119,000 to $187,000

Pay Range

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

$119,000.00 - $206,000.00

Benefits

Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

  • Health benefits
  • 401(k) Plan
  • Paid time off
  • Disability benefits
  • Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Critical caregiving leave
  • Discounts and savings
  • Commuter benefits
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Scholarships for dependent children
  • Adoption reimbursement

Posting End Date:

5 Sep 2026

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

About Wells Fargo

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We believe in nurturing the potential of our employees. Wells Fargo offers robust training programs and resources to help every team member excel in their current roles and prepare for future challenges. Growth at Wells Fargo is not just about climbing the career ladder but expanding your skills and expertise to add value to our team and customers.

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