Staff Product Designer

3 weeks ago

Chicago, United States M1 Full time

Who we are 

M1 is a personal finance platform made for the modern era, uniting individual perspective with automated ease. Hundreds of thousands of investors take control of their long-term wealth with M1 and have already trusted us with over $10 billion of assets. We empower financial well-being with all the tools to earn, spend, invest, and borrow: low-cost borrowing, high interest saving, and high cash back Visa® credit card rewards. 


We’re looking for talented and smart individuals who are excited about rethinking what’s possible with personal finance, invested in their personal and professional growth, and take ownership of the work they want to do – all while helping others create something meaningful and sustainable for their futures. We mean it when we say, “M1 is yours to build.” 


If this sounds interesting to you, read on 

 

What we’re looking for 

We’re looking for a passionate problem solver who nerds out on all things finance to join our tight-knit design team. You’ll report directly into our Head of Product Design, and will be uniquely positioned to bend your brain on strategy as well as push plenty of those beloved pixels as you shape the future of intelligently automating long-term wealth building for our clients. This role will be a great fit if you’re a super motivated and curious user experience expert who thrives in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment where you have full ownership over designing well-crafted solutions that drive the best possible outcomes for our clients.

 

What you’ll do

  • Lead the product design strategy and execution for various initiatives that span our Invest, Earn and Borrow products. You’ll be a trusted partner, representing design across teams.
  • Explore and define undefined problem spaces and optimize existing ones, taking full ownership of your end-to-end design solutions from idea to shipping to post-launch optimizations.
  • Connect with clients through various user research activities that you’ll lead to listen, observe and turn their feedback into insights and ideas that drive the best outcomes.
  • Rapidly ideate to get to multiple concepts, moving into detailed ­­workflows and interactions as solutions solidify, and bringing ideas to life through sketches, user flows, wireframes, prototypes and hi-fidelity visual design.
  • Collaborate with a cross-functional team of Product Management, Engineering, Brand, Marketing and Compliance to arrive at well-informed solutions for web, iOS and Android.
  • Drive alignment across stakeholders via effective communication, measurement, organization, and leadership.
  • Utilize and evolve our robust Liquid design system.
  • Provide broad leadership to other designers in their daily work to help uplevel quality and consistency, and be a voice in improving our team’s design processes and operations.

 

Your qualifications

  • 10+ years designing exceptional consumer products with a portfolio that showcases your ability to move fluidly between user research, UX, UI and visual design.
  • An obsession for deeply understanding business and customer needs, and the ability to translate those needs into intuitive product experiences.
  • A proven track record of strategic thinking that shows consistent intelligent design decisions, highlighting your ability to collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to ship products that have made a measurable impact.
  • A thorough understanding of responsive web design, iOS and Android platforms, UI component libraries, living design systems and modern browser technologies.
  • You’re known for taking bold, calculated risks, and learning from your mistakes.
  • You have a strong passion for elegant, practical design and continual optimization.
  • Basic knowledge of and interest in personal finance is a must.
  • Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.

 

Our values

  • Mission Driven: We know that financial well-being has a dramatic impact on an individual’s quality of life. We are passionate about helping people in this domain.
  • Extreme Ownership: We are responsible for the results to our clients, teammates, and shareholders. We own everything in our domain that affects these results. 
  • Boldness: Thinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thinking big inspires results. We would rather fail at the meaningful than succeed at the trivial. 
  • Ruthless Prioritization: We want to do more than we possibly can. We are disciplined with the use of or precious people, time and money. That means saying no to a lot of good ideas so we can focus on the most important things.
  • Integrity: Our clients and partners rely on us to do the right thing. This trust must never be broken.
  • Effectiveness: We do what’s needed to deliver the intended results. Whether that requires disciplined process or scrappy implementation, we find a way.  
  • Team-oriented: We work collaboratively to achieve more. We respect, trust, and support one another.  
  • Transparency: We use simple and clear communication to share information so that people have the context to make good decisions.
  • Make Forward Progress: Something is better than nothing. We make incremental improvements on our path towards perfection. Crawl, walk, run, and then sprint.
  • Resilience: We understand that any big goal comes with ambiguity, change, and setbacks. We adapt and keep going.

 

Our perks 

  • Unlimited PTO
  • Remote-first with an option to be in our Chicago office
  • Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
  • Stock options for all employees
  • Retirement benefit with employer match


We’re currently only hiring from these states: AK, AZ, CO, DC, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MD, MN, MO, NC, NE, NJ, NV, NY, OH, PA, SC, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI

 

Interested in applying?

  • Email us at recruiting@m1finance.com with your resume and a link to a portfolio of work you’re most proud of (and please include the password, if required).
  • Every application will be personally reviewed by the hiring manager. She appreciates pithy emails that capture why you’d be great for this role.

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