[Hiring] Principal Product Designer @Figure Lending

Role Description

Figure is looking for a Principal Product Designer to help shape the future of our financial products, with a primary focus on Figure Markets and opportunities to work across our broader lending ecosystem. This is a senior individual contributor role for a designer who thrives in complex, ambiguous problem spaces.

• Work on products that span investing, lending, borrowing, digital assets, capital markets, and emerging financial infrastructure.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and business leaders to turn complicated financial concepts, technical constraints, regulatory requirements, and evolving customer needs into clear, intuitive, and trustworthy experiences.
• Move fluidly between big-picture product thinking and detailed execution.
• Challenge assumptions, identify gaps in requirements, and help determine the right product experience.
• Establish patterns, improve team approaches to design problems, mentor other designers, and raise the quality of product design across Figure.

What You’ll Do

• Lead product design for complex initiatives across Figure Markets.
• Turn ambiguous or incomplete product requirements into coherent end-to-end experiences.
• Develop a deep understanding of financial concepts, customer workflows, business models, and technical constraints.
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering from early problem definition through implementation.
• Explore multiple approaches to difficult problems and communicate tradeoffs clearly.
• Design sophisticated workflows, data-dense interfaces, and other interaction models common to financial products.
• Anticipate error states, lifecycle changes, permissions, regulatory constraints, and downstream consequences of design decisions.
• Create prototypes and high-fidelity designs to help teams align quickly.
• Contribute to Figure’s evolving design system, establishing reusable patterns.
• Partner closely with Engineering during implementation to preserve intent and maintain product quality.
• Use research, customer feedback, product data, and cross-functional input to inform design decisions.
• Present work clearly to partners and senior leadership.
• Provide thoughtful critique and mentorship to other designers.
• Identify patterns and opportunities that span individual products.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience, including significant experience owning complex products or major product areas.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong product thinking, interaction design, and visual craft across real, shipped experiences.
• A track record of solving complicated problems where requirements, customer needs, or the underlying product model were not fully defined.
• Strong systems thinking and understanding of how decisions affect workflows, states, users, and systems.
• Excellent interaction design skills for sophisticated workflows and data-heavy products.
• Strong visual design fundamentals and a high bar for product polish.
• The ability to independently drive work from early problem framing through detailed design and implementation.
• Comfort working closely with engineers and making pragmatic design decisions.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills.
• Experience influencing Product and Engineering partners.
• A collaborative mindset and the ability to give and receive direct, thoughtful critique.
• A customer-first approach prioritizing clarity, trust, and usability.

Requirements

• Adhere to all company security policies and data handling procedures.
• Complete mandatory security awareness training within required timeframes.
• Promptly report any suspected security incidents or suspicious activity to the Security team.

Nice to Have

• Experience designing fintech, trading, investing, lending, crypto, capital markets, payments, or other financial products.
• Experience working in regulated industries where compliance affects the product experience.
• Familiarity with institutional or professional financial workflows.
• Experience with products involving complex account structures or financial data.
• Experience contributing to design systems and establishing reusable product patterns.
• Familiarity with front-end technologies and modern product development workflows.
• Experience using prototyping and emerging AI tools to explore ideas.

How You'll Make an Impact

Success in this role is measured by your ability to bring clarity to difficult problems, improve team decisions, and create products that make sophisticated financial capabilities understandable and usable.

Salary

Base Compensation Range: $158,400 - $237,600/yr

• 25% annual bonus target, paid quarterly
• Company equity in the form of RSUs

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employees and their dependents on select plans.
• Company HSA, FSA, Dependent Care FSA, 401(k), and commuter benefits.
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance.
• 11 observed holidays and PTO plan.
• Up to 12 weeks of paid family leave.
• Continuing education reimbursement.