What you will do at Mercury

• Take ownership of larger, horizontal opportunities that shape the core of Mercury’s product. Through this work, you’ll drive exceptional quality & craft, setting the bar for the design team and inspiring better work across the discipline
• Partner with other designers on high-priority & complex projects to help get things across the finish line while upleveling the work

Key Responsibilities

• Drive design excellence and craft across Mercury. This includes visual design, interaction design / prototyping, and systems design
• Work alongside our product teams and executive leadership to make sure we’re building things in a systematic fashion and with the utmost quality
• Operate across the entire design stack, including speccing projects, designing workflows, detailed interactions & prototypes, high-fidelity visuals, and ensuring quality implementation
• Contribute to Mercury’s Design System, ensuring it is both beautiful and practical
• Think and act like a design architect – structuring navigation, information architecture, and how all Mercury products fit together cohesively
• Translate high-craft design into scalable systems and patterns that integrate smoothly into product work
• Mentor other designers on the team, leading by example to uplevel everyone’s skills

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in the design industry
• Enjoy leading high-complexity projects with a broad set of stakeholders
• Ability to successfully leverage the right types of artifacts (presentations, prototypes, etc) and communicate at the right altitude to influence company strategy
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners to define product strategy
• Ability to design whole systems, not just interface elements or static pages
• Ability to rapidly prototype large scale concepts as well as smaller, more thoughtful individual interactions
• Experience and interest in the entire design stack, including UI/UX, visual design, and interaction design
• Kindness and humility in everyday interactions
• Enjoying working with and mentoring fellow designers of all levels