Senior Product Designer, Wallet & Shopping

Senior Product Designer, Wallet & Shopping

Pay: $88-90 / hourly as W2, full benefits offered

Location: Remote

Length of assignment: through EOY 2025, possible extension into 2026

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $88-90 / hourly as a W2 employee.

Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location. Additional benefits offered may include; medical health insurance and dental insurance, life insurance, and eligibility to participate in a 401k plan with company match.

Candidates will need to sign a 'right to represent' in order to be considered for this role.

Reason for Posting: Incremental ask to support the wallet portfolio to meet the roadmap deliverables

Chance for Extension: extension or conversion will be budget dependent. won't know until Q3/Q4

Department Overview

This role sits within the broader Experience Design department which is made up of unique product design specialties including: Consumer, Merchant, Research, Content, Design Systems, and Operations. Experience Design is driving the design and experience strategy that will evolve the brand experience beyond the core transaction and into new realms of the end-to-end commerce journey. This includes dimensions that engage customers well before and after the point of a sales transaction with a brand or money exchange with a peer. It is an incredibly exciting time to join a design team that will be at the forefront of our product and brand transformation. No matter the role or level, all positions are nurtured and encouraged to think through critical problems with well-integrated, multi-discipline teams (pods) and a well-defined culture that’s geared towards explorations, bold provocations, and speedy impact in the market. The department is led by the Chief Design Officer and works intimately with Engineering, Product Management, Brand Design, and Marketing teams.

Role Overview

As a Senior Product Designer on the team, you will have an opportunity to focus on the craft and design output for our products. You will work as a supportive member of a multi-disciplined team and will deliver strategically sound, design solutions that are tethered to a defined requirement document or strategy. In most cases, you will be supported by a couple levels of leadership including a lead, principal designer, and a design manager/director.

For this role, the Senior Designer will focus on the Wallet experiences within our App. This can include features focused on NFC and Tap to Pay interactions, Adding Card and Bank both in app and in online checkout, and emerging global partnerships.

Standard Requirements

• You are kind, generous, nurturing, supportive, and can see beyond your own ideas or instincts.
• You love to study and design for consumer behaviors with a specific interest in consumerism, retail, and evolving cultural norms.
• You believe in the power of brand, a well-articulated point of view, and the necessity of driving measurable business outcomes.
• A deep love and bias for designing products that blend interaction design with brand identities, and content design. All designers are expected to be as sensitive and adept at designing visually compelling UI as they are to system and interaction details.

Role Requirements

• Possess exceptional fundamental craft within detailed UX flows, visual design, site mapping, feature definition, product states, architecture, and user interface design
• Strong awareness of interaction design, art direction and culture trends - both inside and outside industry with a keen eye on the retail and commerce landscapes.
• Experience working on heavy product definition and concept design work that will mature into managed feature sets and ongoing performance improvement.
• Equally skilled at visual user interface design and interactive user experiences
• Proven ability to transform complexity into simple, functional, and value driven product design experiences.
• Ability to create experiential design audits and journey maps for end to end experiences
• Strong ability to package design work into cogent and compelling presentations that set up the problem, strategic point of view, market audit and inspiration, design explorations, and working concept prototypes.
• Ability to create clarity when a brief or problem is still undefined or lacks detail to begin design work.
• Think in system and scale terms - ensuring our broader product design system is well preserved while also helping to advance formality of new patterns, components, or applications of brand identity.

Designer Growth

Our team places great focus on our culture. This includes, our ways of working, our rituals around feedback, our tact for delivering nurturing critique, and our attention to each and every designer’s aspiration as they ascend towards their next defined career levels. You will have opportunities to stretch into areas beyond your core pods and will experience hands on mentorship to ensure you’re expose

Interview process:

Stage 1: An initial, 30-45 minute hiring manager meeting to review some work samples.

Stage 2: 1 hour case study panel presentation with cross discipline members of the design and partner teams.

Stage 3: A series of 1:1, 45 minute interviews with members of your panel and potential additional partners who were not in the panel presentation.

Top 3 must-have hard skills:

• visual design/craft
• product design/strategy
• fintech knowledge and experience

About Aquent:

Aquent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.

Our eligible talent has access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium.

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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