About the role

• Own and lead the design team and strategy for our core rent products
• Shape and drive a vision for the consumer experience
• Align and connect multiple teams to deliver on that vision and achieve business goals
• Facilitate and lead your team to explore and refine their solutions for critical projects
• Set a high standard for quality across everything your team does, from designing concepts to core features to contributions made to evolve our Design System, Ultraviolet
• Collaborate with other design leaders to ensure alignment and consistency across all teams working on the consumer experience
• Influence design and product decisions by staying in touch with how the design industry and UX trends are evolving
• Test folding AI into both your team workflows and our UX strategy to build for the future
• Invest in the growth and development of both your direct reports and the design team at large through operational excellence
• Constantly reinforce our Flex principles and culture through your own behaviors and actions

Key qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a senior or staff product designer and 4+ years managing a team of designers
• Extensive experience designing and shipping consumer-facing native digital products, ideally in-house (not as a consultant or at an agency)
• Exposure to and understanding of what it takes to build and maintain a scaled, mature design system
• Excellent communication skills. Ability to understand complex technical and product challenges and translate them into compelling, clear design challenges for your team to tackle
• Ability to use both qualitative and quantitative insights to develop and guide your team toward a customer-centered strategy
• Ability to give direction throughout each stage of the design process, from research to concepting to refinement and prototyping
• Demonstrated aptitude for getting things done to make your team successful – wearing several different hats when necessary
• Comfort with ambiguous problems
• Motivation to be a self-starter
• Passion for financial products and improving people’s financial lives
• Nice-to-have: experience designing and building Fintech products
• A portfolio of work detailing your contributions to shipped solutions

Compensation

• The compensation range for this role will be commensurate with the candidate's experience and Flex's internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks.
• For working locations in NY/NJ/CA, the base salary pay range will be $231,000 - $253,000.

Benefits for full time, U.S. based employees

• Competitive pay
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision
• 401(k) + company equity
• Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
• Parental leave
• Flex Cares Program
• Free Flex subscription