Senior Product Designer | Bankrate

This role is open to remote or hybrid candidates (East Coast preference), with hybrid options available in our New York, NY or Charlotte area offices. Candidates must be able to work Eastern Standard Time hours.

About the Role

The Brand Product squad at Bankrate is a small, fast-moving team building the user-facing product experience that defines how people interact with Bankrate. You'll be the sole designer on the squad — working alongside engineers — responsible for the full arc of design work: from customer discovery through polished, production-ready delivery. We're looking for a designer who moves with the curiosity of a researcher, the precision of a craftsperson, and enough technical confidence to partner with engineers as a real equal. This is a role for someone who wants to own a product end-to-end and see their decisions matter immediately.

Responsibilities

• Product Discovery & Research: Get close to users before picking up a tool. Run discovery sessions, use AI to accelerate synthesis, and frame problems worth solving. Conduct user interviews and usability tests without a dedicated researcher, bringing insights back into the product.
• End-to-End Design Execution: Own design from early ideation through delivery in whatever form the solution requires. Figma is the whiteboard, not the destination. Finished work might be a prototype, a component in living code, or a high-fidelity spec — whatever moves the team forward fastest. Use AI tools to explore, prototype, and iterate efficiently.
• Technical & Systems Fluency: Bring enough comfort with the codebase and tooling to be a real partner to engineers. Actively use agentic coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, etc.), work with GitHub, and understand component libraries like shadCN, Tailwind, and Next.js to design with what's actually being built. Contribute to design system decisions, treating them as product decisions.
• Brand & Experience Standards: Apply and help evolve Bankrate's brand and experience standards across everything your squad ships. On this squad, brand experience and product experience are the same — you're accountable for both, including accessibility.
• Design Culture & Craft: Contribute to raising the craft of the design org. Participate in critiques, give and receive sharp feedback, and share learnings — tools, AI workflows, prompts, patterns — to benefit the broader team.

Requirements

• Product thinker: Your portfolio shows evidence of shaping design decisions through discovery — not just executing briefs. You distinguish between discovery findings and design opinions, using both effectively.
• High and consistent craft: Your work is detailed, intentional, and finished across many types of problems. You hold a high standard for yourself and treat accessibility as part of craft, not a compliance check.
• Technical comfort: You're comfortable enough with front-end concepts to have real conversations with engineers — not just hand off specs. You know your way around GitHub, have used agentic coding tools, and understand how component-based systems shape what's buildable. Technical curiosity is non-negotiable.
• Clear, proactive, and collaborative: You don't wait to be pointed at problems. You surface them, propose solutions, and act. You communicate design decisions well, take feedback constructively, and make it easy for engineers and PMs to collaborate with you.

Benefits

• Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Holiday Pay
• 401(k) with match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): 20 days annually, increasing to 25 days after five years of service

Pay

Total Cash Compensation Range: $110,000 – $150,000 per year. Actual compensation varies based on location, experience, and qualifications.

About Bankrate

Bankrate is where Americans go to get the best price on life's most important financial decisions. By combining proprietary data, advanced technology, and deep market coverage, Bankrate helps consumers compare options and make confident financial choices across mortgages, credit cards, savings, and more. As a rate provider to the Federal Reserve and the benchmark relied upon by major publishers and policymakers nationwide, Bankrate's rate data is the national standard. This commitment to precision is reflected across all its products, from mortgages to deposits and credit cards.