Figure is a fintech company developing blockchain-based products for financial services. Its offerings span home equity, consumer lending, asset management, loan origination, and related financial transactions, using the Provenance Blockchain to streamline processes for consumers and financial institutions. The company brings together technology and finance expertise to build faster, more efficient tools for lending and asset management.
Principal Product Designer, Financial Products — Remote in the United States
Lead product design for Figure’s blockchain-native lending and capital-markets products. Simplify complex workflows spanning investing, borrowing, digital assets, and tokenized assets.
Description
- Own product design for complex Figure Markets initiatives while contributing to shared experiences across Figure Lending and other products.
- Turn unclear or incomplete requirements into coherent end-to-end product experiences.
- Surface missing logic, dependencies, edge cases, and opportunities throughout the design process.
- Build fluency in financial concepts, customer workflows, business models, and technical constraints.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering from initial problem definition through implementation.
- Evaluate solutions to challenging problems, explain tradeoffs, and inform product decisions.
- Design complex workflows, data-rich interfaces, account and transaction experiences, permissions, states, and interaction models.
- Plan for error states, lifecycle changes, permissions, regulatory requirements, system behavior, and downstream effects.
- Produce prototypes and high-fidelity product designs.
- Help evolve Figure’s design system by establishing reusable design patterns.
- Work with Engineering during implementation to maintain design intent and address practical constraints.
- Incorporate research, customer feedback, product data, domain expertise, and cross-functional perspectives.
- Present design work to partners and senior leaders.
- Offer constructive critique and mentorship to fellow designers.
- Find reusable patterns and opportunities across Markets, Lending, and future product areas.
- Clarify difficult problems, strengthen team decisions, and make sophisticated financial capabilities easier to understand and use.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of product design experience, including substantial ownership of complex products or major product areas.
- A portfolio showing strong product thinking, interaction design, and visual craft across launched products.
- Demonstrated success solving complex problems with initially undefined requirements, customer needs, or product models.
- Strong systems thinking and an understanding of how design decisions affect related workflows, states, users, and systems.
- Advanced interaction design skills for sophisticated workflows, data-intensive products, and multi-step experiences.
- Strong visual design fundamentals across typography, hierarchy, layout, information density, interaction detail, and product refinement.
- Ability to independently lead work from early problem framing through detailed design and implementation.
- Comfort partnering closely with engineers and understanding technical systems well enough to make pragmatic design choices.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience influencing Product and Engineering partners and constructively questioning requirements.
- Collaborative approach with the ability to give and receive direct, thoughtful feedback.
- Customer-focused mindset centered on clarity, trust, and usability.
- Follow all company security policies and data-handling procedures.
- Complete required security awareness training within specified timeframes.
- Report suspected security incidents or suspicious activity to the Security team promptly.
- Figure does not sponsor work visas; hires must verify their identity and eligibility to work in the United States.
- Preferred: experience designing fintech, trading, investing, lending, crypto, capital-markets, payments, or other financial products.
- Preferred: experience working in regulated industries.
- Preferred: familiarity with institutional or professional financial workflows.
- Preferred: experience with complex account structures, transaction lifecycles, roles and permissions, or financial data.
- Preferred: experience contributing to design systems.
- Preferred: familiarity with front-end technologies and modern product development practices.
- Preferred: experience with prototyping and emerging AI tools.
Benefits
- 25% annual bonus target paid quarterly.
- Company equity through RSUs.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, including 100% employer-paid premiums for employees and dependents on select plans.
- Access to company HSA, FSA, Dependent Care FSA, 401(k), and commuter benefits.
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance.
- 11 observed holidays and a PTO plan.
- Up to 12 weeks of paid family leave.
- Reimbursement for continuing education.