Product Designer - Freelance

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• BRAINTRUST JOB ID: 7930
• EXPERIENCE: 1-3 years
• LOCATION: Remote - PST/CIST | Full day overlap
• ESTIMATED DURATION: 20hr/week - Short term
• SALARY RANGE: $65 – $75 /hr
• JOB TYPE: Freelance Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)

THE OPPORTUNITY
Requirements
Hours per week: Part-time contract with the opportunity to transition to full-time after contract period
Initial duration: 3 months
Our client is a fully-funded, mission-driven fintech company focused on bringing inclusion to credit and lending. Backed by the same people behind Chime, Square, Revolut, Step, and Brex, we’re democratizing credit for the 150 million Americans who struggle to access mainstream financial services, providing a path toward a financially healthy future.
We’re taking a radically different approach by leveraging alternative data to offer consumers access to low-interest credit and the ability to grow their credit limits over time as they learn, save, budget, and set goals. Backed by behavioral finance, our integrated financial literacy system helps customers use credit responsibly and develops a proprietary underwriting platform that can expand access to other financial products all at fair rates.
We believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to access fair credit and we're excited to bring on a Product Designer to help make this a reality.
What You’ll Be Working On
What You’ll Be Doing

• Maintain and grow our design system
• Support research initiatives such as customer interviews, competitive analysis, and usability testing
• Support product marketing and external marketing efforts across the organization to ensure consistent design and brand
• Prepare hi-fidelity design specs for handoff, supporting the documentation process for engineering
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to create flows from lo-fi wireframes and interactive prototypes, incorporating stakeholder feedback

Qualifications

• Desire to work in an Agile development environment (Kanban or Scrum)
• Experience working with Figma, Jira, Adobe Creative Suite, Confluence, Storybook, etc.
• Visual Design skills are a plus
• Strong communication and collaboration skills when facing ambiguous situations
• Previous experience designing for mobile
• Focus on solving user problems, making data-driven decisions
• 1-3 years of experience designing mobile and web applications

The team is seeking a product person with a growth mindset who is eager to transition into a full-time employee (FTE). If you believe this opportunity aligns with your career goals, here are the exciting benefits you can look forward to:

• Competitive salary
• Equity and future growth possibilities
• Excellent health, dental and vision benefits
• Any requirements for your home office
• Remote forward workplace
• Full-time benefits:
• Generous vacation and leave policies
• Collaborative and engaging culture

Apply Now!
C2C Candidates: This role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.
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