Staff Product Designer
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$ 167450 - 226550
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About the Company
Valons mission is to empower every homeowner. We believe the journey of home ownership starts when you get your keys but lasts far beyond. Were creating a world where home ownership comes with ease security and financial knowhow. Our growing team of engineers operators product enthusiasts and experienced servicing professionals are leveraging technology to fundamentally improve the homeownership experience. Through mortgage servicingthe process of paying off ones mortgageValon is taking the first step in transforming the industry one homeowner and lender at a time.
Design at Valon
Design at Valon goes beyond creating products. Were rebuilding trust in the mortgage industry by simplifying the complex empowering users to make confident decisions and delivering peace of mind. We create transparency for homeowners and provide scalable efficient tools for servicers setting new standards that improve user experiences and business efficiency.
Your application requires a portfolio for consideration.
About this role:
We are seeking a Senior or Staff Product Designer to lead key design efforts across the Product Infrastructure team. In this role you will define the design vision and execute strategies that influence user experience at a systems level guiding the evolution of Valons platform. You will have a significant impact on Valons longterm business goals by shaping customizable software that supports both internal teams and external clients in the mortgage servicing industry.
Youll collaborate with crossfunctional teams to develop design solutions that support multitenant systems and highly configurable tools that scale to meet diverse client needs. As a Staff Designer you will also elevate the design teams capabilities ensuring attention to detail and driving design excellence across the organization.
Responsibilities:
- Design in Ambiguity: Embrace the challenge of designing from the ground up leading the creation of 0to1 user experiences for our upcoming infrastructure projects while navigating evolving business requirements and ambiguity.
- Think in Modularity: Lead the design of highly configurable systemlevel 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 backoffice teams through usercentered design. Ensure designs can scale and support varied user experiences.
- Evolve Design System: Contribute to and refine Valons design system ensuring consistency and scalability across all products.
- Create Customizable Systems: Build flexible userfriendly interfaces that empower subservicers to customize workflows process management and automation for both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Simplify Complex Information: Design information architecture that simplifies complex loan data sets making them easily accessible and contextually relevant for usersensuring 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 needsparticularly for complex mortgage servicing use cases.
- Champion CrossFunctional and CrossTeam 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.
Qualities we value on the design team:
- User Empathy and Advocacy: Deep understanding of user needs and ability to represent those needs in every design decision.
- Strong Communication and Collaboration: Ability to articulate design decisions and collaborate effectively with crossfunctional teams.
- Critical Thinking and Thought Partnership: Provide thoughtful input on product and design strategy focusing on longterm impact.
- Humble and GrowthOriented Mindset: Continuously seeking ways to improve and contribute to team success.
- Balanced Approach: Care about the big picture but execute with precision in design details.
- Startup Mindset: Excitement for working in a fastpaced evolving startup environment.
Required Background
- 6 years (Senior) or 10 years (Staff) experience in usercentered product design
- Experience with largescale platform products and collaboration tools.
- Experience in designing B2B SaaS product
- Ability to balance methodological rigor with spiness and creativity in a fastpaced environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Bonus Points For:
- Experience working in a startup environment.
- Familiarity with the mortgage industry prop tech or financial systems.
- Experience designing for both consumer tech and enterprise software.
Benefits:
- Base salary band: $167450 to $ 226550
- Compensation: competitive salary with a meaningful stake in the company via equity and 401k plan
- Health & wellbeing: well invest in your physical and mental wellbeing with comprehensive medical dental & vision benefits
- Commuter benefits: We offer pretax 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 nonbirthing parents fully paid so you can focus your energy on your newest addition
New York Base Compensation Pay Range
$167450 $226550 USD
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
