Principal Product Designer

Were looking for a talented Principal Product Designer to join our rapidly growing team in Austin. Youll be part of Wises global mission to build an open fair and human financial system. Because people without borders need money without borders.

At Wise weve got a clear mission money without borders. Built by and for people who live global lives. Were at a genuinely exciting time. Building more transparent and convenient ways to pay and get paid has never been more important in achieving our mission. 

Your mission: 

Were looking for a talented Principal Product Designer to join our rapidly growing team in Austin. This is a unique opportunity to be the first Product Designer in North America and to lead multiple initiatives that touch all areas of the Wise product to substantially improve the experience for our US customers.

This role requires craft curiosity collaboration autonomy and drive.

Youll be joining the full-stack team driving our growth in North America. Think of us as an autonomous startup team - we move fast ship constantly and obsessively chase product-market fit. What makes our team unique is that we have the financial technical and design firepower of the Wise global business behind us.

This is a high-leverage opportunity for driven builders who want to help us achieve our core mission: to genuinely make money work for everyone

Heres how youll be contributing:

• Youll partner with Analytics and Research get to know Wise customers and build an understanding of their goals.

• Youll partner with Product and the wider Design team to drive the strategy and direction for our North America surfaces rethinking existing journeys and creating new ones from scratch.

• Youll set a high bar for design excellence. Youll create outstanding product experiences leading by example to produce high-quality work no matter how big or small the task may be.

• Youll be using your full range of product design skills to discover design and deliver simple crafted experiences that prevent issues from arising and offer simple resolution paths when they do arise.

• Youll build influence across multiple squads and teams increasing customer-centricity creativity and design quality.

This role will give you the opportunity to: 

• Ship work youre proud of. Craft experiences that are innovative easy to use and clear.

• Own your impact. Youll decide what opportunities to work on and define their success metrics.

• Elevate product quality. You define what good looks like to your team. And you help them deliver it.

• Be part of a positive change in the world. Were fixing a broken greedy system and putting people and businesses in control of their money.

Qualifications :

• You have 10 years of experience as a Product Designer championing customer-first design initiatives

• Youve got a portfolio of well-crafted impactful work that solves real problems for real people.

• You default to prototyping when presenting your work and are already using AI tooling to do this.

• Youre a natural collaborator designing in the open leveraging other functions expertise and taking them on the journey with you.

• You understand that good design is often a journey to identify the right thing to build using early concepts and prototypes to help build conviction along the way.

• You have a high-level of design craft.

• You are comfortable designing for mobile and web surfaces.

• Youve worked with design systems to produce beautiful and functional design that scales.

• You practice evidence-based design and can rationalise your decisions clearly and credibly.

Additional Information :

Were people without borders without judgement or prejudice too. We want to work with the best people no matter their background. So if youre passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission youll fit right in.

Also educational qualifications arent that important to us. If youve got great experience and youre great at articulating your thinking wed like to hear from you.

And because we believe that diverse teams build better products wed especially love to hear from you if youre from an under-represented demographic.

For everyone everywhere. Were people building money without borders  without judgement or prejudice too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse equitable and inclusive.

Were proud to have a truly international team and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time