Senior Systems Designer (Remote)

At Earnest, we believe in a world where paying for your education takes less time than earning your degree.  Join us on our mission to empower anyone seeking higher education to reduce the total price tag of their degree, supercharge their ability to pay down student debt, and get on the right financial track fast.

A little background on Earnest: We're a remote first FinTech company with an accomplished team who believe consumer lending can be radically improved and are doing something about it. We are disrupting the trillion dollar student loan industry by redefining what it means to be creditworthy. We created a company that combines data science, streamlined design, and technology to:

• Build products that simplify the lending process
• Personalize loans to suit the needs of our customers
• Engage with our customers through more human experiences

What makes an “Earnie” culture: 

Earnest’s culture is as dynamic as the products we’re building and defining every day. We’re a fast-growing company, and that means we’re constantly integrating the new perspectives of every individual.

Earnies define our culture as:

• Earn Happy Customers
• Our success comes from anticipating their needs and providing the solutions they’re looking for.
• Better is Better
• The path to great means getting better every day. We push ourselves, and each other, to remain curious and think differently. 
•  PhD in Moving Fast
• Our customers are tired of long wait times and large student loan bills so we constantly seek out ways to deliver faster.  
•  Passion for Challenges
• Perseverance and optimism are just the start to take on the inertia of a national trillion-dollar problem. 
•  Impact is a Team Sport
• We maximize our impact when we act as one team. 

Our Earnie's are fun, innovative, and willing to rollup their sleeves to help their team succeed in a fast-paced environment. If this sounds like you, and you want to join us on our mission to radically disrupt a trillion dollar fintech industry, keep reading to find out how. 

As the Senior Systems Designer, you will lead our design systems efforts and up-level the visual quality our all Earnest products. You will be responsible for creating, maintaining and evolving the foundational UI components, patterns, tools and documentation of our design system across platforms. In your role, you will collaborate closely with design engineers, product, and brand designers across Earnest to make our product delightful, accessible and visually pleasing to students.

What you'll do:

Systems/ UI design

• Create UI components for product flows
• Set new standards for visual craft and execution across our product
• Build and maintain components for the Earnest design system
• Further understanding and adherence to the fundamentals of color, spacing and typography across products
• Design components and toolkits that are WCAG compliant and accessible

Strategy and Execution

• Partner with Product designers to identify key opportunities to meet and prioritize user and business needs
• Own design strategy and communicate a vision for the design system
• Understand business and technical needs.
• Partner closely with Engineering to ensure our implementation and user experience is of high-quality
• Advocate for the design system throughout the company, representing the team in product discussions and educating others on how to use the system

System Development

• Sketch and prototype ideas to quickly access viability, and design the fine-grained details of interactions
• Work with front end engineering teams for web and mobile user interfaces, including participating in code reviews
• Create and iterate on solutions that are inspired by a deep empathy for our users
• Ideate new product features and improvements
• Work collaboratively to prioritize feature ideas
• Build a systems tracker to understand usage and impact of the design system

UX Design

• Develop strategic insights and strategies to guide UX development
• Create detailed product toolkits and templates for product designers 
• Create screen by screen interactions utilizing product paradigms

Leadership

• Mentor junior members of the Design team
• Present at team and company level meetings

Ideal background and expertise:

• 5+ years designing product design systems and component libraries 
• Experience working with both UX and UI design
• High proficiency in Figma and building Figma libraries
• Familiarity with Storybook and react JS components
• Ability to analyze and use data/ research to inform design decisions
• Experience leading and launching a design system and product toolkits
• Ability to measure usage and impact of design system

Earnest believes in enabling our employees to live their best lives. We offer a variety of perks and competitive benefits that include: 

• Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
• Work anywhere in the U.S. 
• Mac computers + work from home stipend to set up your home office
• Monthly internet and phone reimbursement
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
• Robust tuition reimbursement program
• $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world 
• Competitive days of annual PTO
• Annual “my day” 
• Pet insurance!
• Competitive parental leave
• Plenty of Earnest swag, optional in person team gatherings, picnics, celebrations, and plenty of fun virtual events 

At Earnest, we are committed to building an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging enables us to move forward with our mission. We are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage anyone to apply if your experience is close to what we are looking for.  

Earnest provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for the position in a manner consistent with the Fair Chance Ordinance.