Staff Product Designer

About the role

Nova Credit is a credit infrastructure and analytics company that enables businesses to grow responsibly by harnessing alternative credit data. The company leverages its unique data infrastructure, industry-leading analytics & FCRA-compliance to help lenders fill in the gaps that exist in traditional credit analytics. Nova Credit provides access to the fragmented universe of consumer financial data and transforms it into compliant, actionable risk analytics through a suite of solutions designed to increase conversion through expanded coverage, speed, and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Become familiar with each of our products and how they all come together on Nova Credit's Platform.
• Build strong cross-functional partnerships across Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Account Management.
• Observe customer calls to understand their pain points, needs, and the context in which they occur.
• Review existing design systems, patterns, and user research to understand our current state.
• Contribute to at least one key feature on the roadmap, while making a preliminary assessment of the longer-term design vision and opportunities across the product platform.
• Lead end-to-end design for at least one significant product initiative, delivering high-quality UX and UI solutions.
• Establish or refine design processes to enhance collaboration among design, product, and engineering teams.
• Identify areas of opportunity across our products to enhance conversion, usability, and the overall consumer experience through UX/UI improvements.
• Contribute to building a strong design culture and help evolve our design systems and practices.
• Become a subject matter expert in our products and our target customers, with an in-depth understanding of both user and business needs, and how to translate that into design strategy.
• Lead design for multiple complex product initiatives with demonstrated impact on key metrics like customer adoption, conversion, or user satisfaction.
• Influence product strategy and prioritization through design thinking.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with strategic cross-functional partners within the company and with key customers.

Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in product design, with a strong focus on B2B or B2B2C products.
• Experience taking a feature from ideation to delivery, from diving into user research and usability testing all the way through to shipping detailed designs and collaborating with engineering teams to deliver the final product.
• Strong visual design skills, enabling you to create high-fidelity mockups and prototypes that effectively communicate design solutions.
• Systems-level thinking and ability to design scalable solutions that work across products and platforms.
• Ability to articulate design decisions with clarity and confidence, grounding them in user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
• Experience building or contributing to design systems and pattern libraries to ensure consistency and design efficiency.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, enabling you to articulate complex design concepts effectively to diverse audiences.

Qualifications

• You have a minimum of 8 years of experience in product design, with a strong focus on B2B or B2B2C products.
• You can take a feature from ideation to delivery, from diving into user research and usability testing all the way through to shipping detailed designs and collaborating with engineering teams to deliver the final product.
• You possess strong visual design skills, enabling you to create high-fidelity mockups and prototypes that effectively communicate design solutions.
• You excel at systems-level thinking and can design scalable solutions that work across products and platforms.
• You can articulate design decisions with clarity and confidence, grounding them in user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
• You have experience building or contributing to design systems and pattern libraries to ensure consistency and design efficiency.
• You possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, enabling you to articulate complex design concepts effectively to diverse audiences.

Skills

• Systems-level thinking and ability to design scalable solutions that work across products and platforms.
• Ability to articulate design decisions with clarity and confidence, grounding them in user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
• Experience building or contributing to design systems and pattern libraries to ensure consistency and design efficiency.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, enabling you to articulate complex design concepts effectively to diverse audiences.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and generously subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
• A company-sponsored 401(k) plan.
• Generous parental leave.
• Sick time off.
• Paid vacation time.

Pay

$197,200 - $240,299 per year

Schedule

Remote-friendly role