Sr. Product Designer

About Origence

With 30 years at the forefront of fintech innovation, we specialize in SaaS lending solutions that lead the industry. Our core mission is customer-centric, focusing on empowering Credit Unions across the United States with the tools to offer accessible, competitive lending services. We're deeply committed to enhancing the financial ecosystem for a broad network of credit unions, members and auto dealers. We invest in our greatest assets, our employees, and foster a culture of innovation and ownership through freedom and responsibility. We celebrate fiscal accountability, operational rigor and efficiency to create a sustainably healthy and robust business for the long term.

About you

You are a self-driven, conscientious, fiscally responsible, self-aware, passionate and compassionate software engineer. You are comfortable with ambiguity, eternally curious, and love problem solving. You operate as an owner and work with a growth mindset. You are extremely productive on your own, and act as a multiplier collaborating with others. You are tireless in questioning the status quo and pursue the best answers to the hardest problems to the benefit of the business. Your focus is strong and capable of context switching and pivoting with the business.

The Sr. Product Designer owns and drives the design for multiple origination products and platforms. Applies a user-centric design process to create high-quality user experiences that foster the intersection between design, user needs, business, and technology. Collaboratively leads Product and Development teams to create and enhance user-centered design solutions. Takes complex design problems from early-stage concepts through final delivery. Brings advanced-level design instincts and outstanding intuition informed by user needs and insights to each project.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Strategy and Planning

• Collaborate with product and development teams to uncover customer and business needs, then translate them into engaging, simple, and intuitive design solutions and understandable concepts that evolve and enhance the product interface and experience.
• Advocate for the customer through human-centered design methods, including discovery, research, whiteboard sessions, and user testing.
• Champion prioritization of design-centered product enhancements grounded in research and analysis.
• Develop and present design proposals and reports to senior management and stakeholders to communicate design vision and progress.

Design Leadership

• Take a design leadership role within product teams on defining requirements, producing wireframes, storyboards, user flows, user interfaces and interactions, visual designs, prototyping, testing, and delivering design assets.
• Provide a strong voice in strategy, research, alignment, analysis, design critiques, and design execution tasks.
• Navigate conflict resolution within the team as well as within project teams and partner relationships.
• Participate in hiring by reviewing resumes, portfolios, and conducting interviews.
• Act as an influential resource to other designers, promoting a collaborative and creative work environment.
• Lead design cr