Staff Product Designer (Contract)

• Use AI across the design lifecycle for, rapid exploration, prototyping, and front-end workflows, and model how the team can do the same

Influence and Collaboration

• Partner with design leadership, product, and engineering to shape the direction of complex, cross-cutting product areas

• Collaborate with other designers to ensure alignment and consistency across the consumer experience

• Advocate for design thinking and user-centered principles across the company at every level, up to and including executive leadership

Standards and Mentorship

• Establish and evolve design standards, processes, and patterns that raise the quality floor for the entire organization

• Provide mentorship and craft feedback to designers across the team

• Contribute foundational elements and set the standard for how the design system should evolve

Key Qualifications

• Experience: A demonstrated track record as a senior IC contributor on complex consumer products

• Design Mastery: Deep expertise in UX/UI design with strong experience showcasing shipped work at significant scope and quality

• Strategic Thinking: Ability and demonstrated experience to operate at the product strategy level, shaping direction through design

• Craft: Exceptional execution skills with high attention to detail in interaction design, visual design, and prototyping

• Collaboration: Excellent communication skills; able to work fluidly with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, marketing, and executive leadership

• Tools and Tech: Proficiency in modern design tooling; and fluency with front-end development

• AI Fluency: Comfort using AI tools across the design process for research, exploration, prototyping, and workflow improvement

• Passion: Genuine interest in financial products and improving people's financial lives

Compensation

This is a contract position with an hourly rate of $125–$200 per hour , commensurate with experience and our internal leveling guidelines. Flex takes a market-based approach to pay and utilizes a geographic pay differential based on a cost of labor index; if you are located outside of our Tier 1 (NYC/Bay Area) markets, your rate will be adjusted to align with the market conditions of your specific geographic zone. There is potential for this engagement to convert to a full-time role, in which case compensation would be aligned to the full-time salary range and benefits for the level.

Life at Flex

We understand that it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. Our HQ is located in New York City, but we have employees located throughout the US, Australia, Canada and South America. We are growing quickly, but deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.

Offices

Roles posted in New York, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City are hybrid positions with on-site expectations of 2-3 days per week in our local offices. For candidates outside of these areas, you may be eligible for our relocation assistance program.

Benefits

For full-time U.S. employees we offer:

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision

• Company equity

• 401(k) plan with company match

• Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays

• Parental leave

• Free Flex subscription

For full-time non-U.S. employees, we offer:

• Competitive compensation + company equity

• Unlimited PTO

• Web, UI & UX Design

Source: Jobicy