Product Designer

In 1954, in Columbus, Indiana, Eero Saarinen designed a bank with glass walls, no offices, and a completely open floor plan. It was surrounded by trees; the furniture was made by Herman Miller; the lobby flooring was thick, rustic brick. The bank was built with transparency and community at its core.

Since 1954, a lot of things have happened — Saarinen’s bank branch is now a conference center, people increasingly live on the internet, and it’s hard to think of a single bank that still applies design thinking to their product.

Mercury is building a bank for startups. We believe building a bank in 2021 revolves around thoughtful design, and we’re looking to add a product designer to our team to help.

You’ll:

Take ownership of large portions of a complex product
Work across the entire design stack, including: speccing projects; designing workflows, detailed interactions, and high-fidelity visuals; and ensuring quality implementation
Find elegant solutions to user problems, and think critically from the user perspective
Simplify and cull design elements with a ruthless eye
Craft designs from first principles (referencing existing solutions is often a poor idea in banking)
Imbue mundane tasks and flows with a feeling of wonder
Prototype multiple visual and UX concepts and then narrow them to the right solution
Explain and debate the reasoning behind your product decisions
Work directly with 2–4 engineers, the business team, a product designer, and a visual designer

You should:

Have the ability to design whole systems, not just interface elements or static pages
Have experience and interest in the entire design stack, including UI/UX, visual design, and interaction design
Have experience building for a variety of form factors, including mobile
Understand when no design is the best design
Have a strong personal design aesthetic and also understand the Mercury aesthetic
Want to create elegant, calm designs that predict and exceed users’ expectations
Feel comfortable anticipating and designing for edge cases
Understand the balance between perfect design and getting to market
Exhibit kindness and humility in everyday interactions

Does this sound like you? You can apply here.