Join our Business & Personal product team as a Principal Product Designer, where you’ll thrive in a fast-paced, iterative environment that moves from sketch to ship in rapid design sprints. You’ll collaborate closely with Product Management and Engineering to surface customer insights, prototype bold solutions, and validate them with rapid concept tests and user research. You will be responsible for creating designs that solve complex financial problems, reinforce Quicken’s market leadership, and set the standard for both usability and visual craft across web and mobile.
Design Leadership
- Collaborate with your Product Manager and Engineers to drive the design vision and create the deliverables for your product.
- Conduct Product/Customer Discovery efforts to understand user needs and problems to be solved.
- Create work that inspires other designers in the company-- lead by example.
- Contribute to shared design libraries with input from teammates.
- Coach and mentor senior and mid-level designers, providing clear, constructive feedback and fostering continuous improvement.
Strategic Collaboration & Influence
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and other Designers to translate business goals into measurable design outcomes.
- Think through ambiguous challenges independently while involving other teammates and stakeholders along the way.
- Proactively surface opportunities and risks based on user research and analytics.
- Work with engineering leads to ensuring feasibility without compromising quality.
- Present design concepts and rationale to Senior Staff and cross-functional stakeholders
User Research & Insight
- Independently plan and run studies (interviews, usability tests, A/B experiments); synthesize findings into strategic recommendations.
- Use quantitative data (metrics, funnel analysis) to validate designs and iterate toward business objectives.
Experience Architecture & Systems
- Architect complex user flows, IA, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes across web and mobile.
- Establish, evolve, and evangelize a scalable design system; enable consistency and efficiency across teams.
- 8+ years in product design, including 3+ years in principal roles (experience in fintech or small-business software is a plus).
- Bachelor’s degree in design, HCI, or equivalent work experience (Master’s in related discipline is a plus).
- Expert in Figma, including Dev Mode, with a focus on streamlined, developer-friendly handoff processes and delivering precise, production-ready design specs.
- Well-versed in modern web and mobile design patterns, with a strong understanding of Material Design and Apple's Human Interface Guidelines (familiarity with HTML/CSS and React component libraries is a plus).
- Proven track record of planning and synthesizing end-to-end user research, including A/B testing (experience with analytics tools, e.g., Mixpanel, a plus).
- Exceptional storytelling, presentation, and cross-team facilitation (experience presenting to executive audiences is a plus).
Core Competencies of a Quicken Product Designer
- Customer Empathy: You proactively immerse yourself in user contexts—running studies, interpreting metrics, and connecting with internal stakeholders—to predict needs and design solutions with unwavering customer focus.
- Strategic Thinking: You translate complex business objectives into clear design roadmaps, fill gaps with minimal direction, and influence product vision by presenting data-driven recommendations to stakeholders and senior leadership.
- Collaboration & Influence: You set the standard for cross-functional partnership, driving alignment through clear communication, consensus-building sessions, and shared ownership of outcomes.
- Process Efficiency & Autonomy: You continuously refine design processes—mentoring peers and teaching non-designers—while confidently owning deliverables end-to-end with minimal oversight.
- Visual Craft & Attention to Detail: You exemplify pixel-perfect execution in layout, typography, and interaction patterns; your artifacts serve as the benchmark for quality across the organization and inspire fellow designers.
What we offer
- Competitive salary and performance bonus
- 401(k) with 5% employer match
- Exceptional health insurance benefits with minimal out of pocket expenses
- Fantastic culture, strong believers in Autonomy/Mastery/Purpose
- Customer-driven, we make money by building the best products for our users. No confusion about how to win – create amazing products!
- Ability to work with and lead incredible talent
- Build products that make a huge difference in people’s lives
- Work on a highly recognizable brand that defined the personal finance category
Quicken is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The actual salary offered is determined by factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to years and depth of experience, relevant skills, and work location. This position's expected base pay range is $185,000 - $205,000.
Quicken is building a team of innovative and talented individuals passionate about helping people improve their financial lives. We care about our employees' well-being and pride ourselves on offering a fabulous range of benefits and perks. From comprehensive healthcare coverage, a 401(k) plan with a generous 5% match, fitness subsidies, education reimbursement, and onsite lunches, to name a few - we've got you covered! At Quicken, we believe happy employees are successful employees, so we're committed to creating a fun and supportive work environment that encourages personal and professional growth, recognizing that a thriving workforce is essential to our collective success! (Benefits and perks may vary based on location.)
Quicken is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability.