Product Designer (Design Lead)

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Amount delivers the technology that financial institutions need to create and enhance their digital credit offerings. Built by lending industry veterans, Amount helps partners go digital in months—not years—with a suite of proven product modules for credit decisioning, fraud prevention, account verifications, servicing engines and CRM solutions. Amount partners can optimize performance across product categories by tapping into various service offerings including customer acquisition, funnel and performance assessments, and risk consulting & analytics. Amount clients include financial institutions collectively managing close to $1T in US assets and servicing more than 25 million US customers. Visit www.amount.com for more information.

 

Amount is looking for a Product Design Lead (Design Strategist) to join our rapidly growing design team. The Product Design Lead will partner with our Head of Design to define best-in-class experiences across our expanding product suite, nurture craft and process among the Product Design team, and strategize with Product and Engineering leaders to develop and deliver an ambitious roadmap.

 

The Product Design Lead will manage a small team and work with product owners to define the cross-channel, cross-platform customer experience for our products. This person will use user research, design strategy and human-centered design methods to craft multi-channel customer journeys that are intuitive, delightful, and meet the business needs of our bank partners.

 

Amount Design

 

The Amount Design and Content team is a group of designers and copywriters that work together as a shared service across the organization. Our team of 5 currently includes 2 product designers, 1 visual designer, 1 copywriter, and a Head of Design. The team is divided into 2 collaborative focus areas, Brand Design and Product Design. This role would be within the Product Design group. 

Responsibilities

    • Lead strategic design projects that cut across multiple dives, channels, and environments
    • Drive greater visibility of the design team and the impact of their work across the organization
    • Leverage design thinking,  human-centered design practices, and user research to build lead the creation of complex internal tools and partnership management software
    • Assist in managing the project design roadmap, project planning, and task prioritization
    • Identify organizational growth opportunities, recruiting and on-boarding new designers as needed

Qualifications

    • You have at least 5+ years of experience working in design
    • Experience with B2B software or applications with multiple user touch-points on different platforms and devices
    • A portfolio that effectively showcases strengths in strategy, leadership, and delivery across high impact product initiatives
    • You know how to ask the right questions to unblock design work
    • You visual design work has a high-level of respect for detail, craft, and design fundamentals
    • You have strong communication skills and are excited about being an advocate for design and design thinking

As part of the Brand Design group you will have the opportunity to lead high-impact design projects and grow within your role. In addition, enjoy various other perks like:

 

- Exposure to working in both an in-house and agency environment

- Work with an experienced team in a start-up environment that has grown businesses to profitability and successes

- Be a part of a fast growing design team that impacts every part of the organization

- Have fun and make cool stuff (check out our Dribbble page)

- Awesome office space

- Generous daily lunch stipend, health and vision benefits, 401(k) match, flexible PTO, and on-site gym access

 

Why Amount is a fit for you:

 

At Amount, we believe our values make a difference:

We value, support, and help each other grow

We are committed to active inclusion and diversity

We are transparent and believe the best idea wins

We succeed when our customers succeed

We get sh!t done… responsibly

And we keep it fun!

 

We believe that ideas are more important than titles, everything is more fun together, everyone drives change, and everyone is an owner. While we believe the perks and benefits that we offer are terrific, nothing excites us more than having the ability to collaborate with intelligent, highly-motivated and talented people on challenging problems as we work to change the face of online lending.

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Our Chicago HQ is located on Chicago’s scenic river walk, a few blocks from the metra and bus and loop train lines.

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