Senior Product Designer - Accounting Systems

About the role

At Mercury, we’re exploring how intelligent systems can bring the same sense of structure and confidence to complex financial workflows that Maria Montessori brought to education. We’re hiring a Senior Product Designer to help define and design a next-generation AI-powered experience within Mercury’s accounting ecosystem. This is a foundational role focused on turning sophisticated automation and domain logic into experiences that feel intuitive, reliable, and empowering.

Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.

Responsibilities

• Shape how AI-powered capabilities show up across complex financial workflows
• Translate emerging technical capabilities into intuitive, human-centered experiences
• Design systems that balance automation, transparency, and user control
• Simplify technical and regulatory complexity into understandable workflows
• Anticipate edge cases, failure states, and operational risks in high-stakes domains
• Create scalable interaction patterns and escalation models for AI-assisted experiences
• Prototype new interaction models and design detailed, high-quality product experiences
• Partner closely with engineering, product, research, and data teams to ship thoughtful outcomes

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience leading complex, end-to-end product design initiatives
• Thrive in ambiguity and enjoy shaping strategy and direction, not just executing requirements
• Think in systems and workflows, not just individual screens
• Have experience designing fintech, AI-powered, data-heavy, or workflow-driven products
• Balance automation with transparency, trust, and user understanding
• Prototype fluidly to explore both interaction logic and product craft
• Care deeply about quality, correctness, and usability in high-stakes domains
• Bring strong product judgment, communication skills, and ownership to your work

Pay

Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:

• US employees (any location): $189,000–236,200 USD
• Canadian employees (any location): $178,600–223,200 CAD

Total rewards include base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits. Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using reliable compensation survey data. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.