Senior Staff Product Designer, Exploration Team

Intuit Credit Karma is a mission-driven company, focused on championing financial progress for our more than 140 million members globally. While we're best known for pioneering free credit scores, our members turn to us for everything related to their financial goals, including identity monitoring, applying for credit cards, shopping for insurance and loans (car, home and personal) and savings accounts and checking accounts* – all for free. Credit Karma has grown significantly through the years: we now have more than 1,700 employees across our offices in Oakland, Charlotte, Culver City, San Diego, London, Bangalore, and New York City.
*Banking services provided by MVB Bank, Inc., Member FDIC

The Exploration Team is a new team within Credit Karma that has focused on accelerating emerging technologies, developing new experiences, and craft visionary narratives. In this role, you join a small team of designers that continue to contribute to Credit Karma business and strategy. 

What you will do:

• Apply strategic thinking to design and deliver innovative end-to-end user experiences that optimize among user needs, business goals, and technological realities across web & mobile platforms
• Take ideas and concepts, and visualize them into narratives that can be communicated effectively and compellingly for internal leaders and partners
• Turn visions into concepts and translate those concepts into designs that illustrate simplicity, despite complexity of the system
• Build experiences that bring concepts to life through the use of motion and complex prototypes
• Collaborate effectively with researchers, product management, development, marketing, and other team members
• Use facilitative leadership skills to drive to the best outcome for stakeholders, resulting in others learning from you, and inspiring others to want to work with you

What we are looking for: 

• 10+ years of interface design experience in delivering high-volume, high-profile or award-winning web sites or products; preferably experience with mobile products
• Expert knowledge driving and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively, along with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and user research
• Deep knowledge of user experience methods, innovation, ideation, storytelling, prototyping, design frameworks, concept visualization, problem-framing skills and design principles
• Passion for visual design evolution while leveraging marketing brand guidelines. 
• Experience working at the intersection of Product Design and Brand Marketing to craft the product visual design into an expert representation of the Credit Karma brand
• Proven track record of several projects that have shipped and made significant impact on business metrics
• Exemplary ability to build positive, collaborative relationships across teams/groups/functions through facilitative leadership to deliver great results and to "raise the bar" continually as an effective leader of positive change
• Effective communicator and presenter
• Organized, self-directed, efficient and able to manage multiple and complex projects in a timely manner with partners

Benefits at Credit Karma includes:

• Medical and Dental Coverage
• Retirement Plan
• Commuter Benefits
• Wellness perks
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick, Baby Bonding, Cultural Observance, & More)
• Education Perks
• Paid Gift Week in December

Pay Transparency Notice:

Credit Karma’s mission of championing financial progress for all starts from within. That’s why we implemented role-based compensation, which ensures people who are in the same role receive the same pay with variations for geographic location only. It’s all part of a more comprehensive DEI strategy that helps level the playing field. The base salary range for this role is $330,000 - $357,939, plus equity and benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Credit Karma is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We welcome all candidates without regard to race, color, religion, age, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, veteran or military status, disability (physical or mental), genetic information or other protected characteristic. We prohibit discrimination of any kind and operate in compliance with applicable fair chance laws. 

Credit Karma is also  committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment because it is the right thing to do. We believe that such an environment advances long-term professional growth, creates a robust business, and supports