[Hiring] Senior Design Manager @Mercury

Role Description

At Mercury, we want to thoughtfully evolve how Mercury feels to use, creating experiences that are intelligent without being inscrutable, proactive without being intrusive, and distinctly Mercury.

You’ll lead the product designers responsible for some of Mercury’s core experiences and establish a point of view for how our interfaces should evolve as the possibilities of software change. You’ll work closely with Product, Engineering, and Design Systems to turn emerging interaction ideas into coherent, reusable patterns, while building a team known for exceptional product thinking and craft.

Our design organization consists of 40+ people who love solving complex problems through design and are equally passionate about cultivating, guiding, and inspiring one another.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Mercury’s interaction philosophy, focusing on AI-native, conversational, adaptive, and proactive experiences.
• Set an exceptional bar for product quality across the Interfaces organization.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of product designers, fostering an environment for creative risks and exceptional work.
• Shape product strategy alongside Product and Engineering, bringing design into ambiguous problems early.
• Stay close to the work, using critique, prototyping, exploration, and collaboration to push ideas further.
• Help raise the craft and product-thinking bar of Mercury’s broader Design organization.

Qualifications

• Have exceptional product taste with strong judgment about software behavior and feel.
• Have a strong point of view on AI-native interfaces and actively experiment with interaction models.
• Be a craft-obsessed design leader, successfully leading and developing product designers.
• Think about interactions as systems, connecting patterns, information architecture, and behaviors.
• Be a strategic cross-functional partner to Product and Engineering, collaborating on strategy and roadmaps.
• Operate independently with a strong point of view, creating structure and developing perspectives.

Requirements

• Experience designing AI-powered or consumer software.
• Strong prototyping skills.
• Close partnership with Design Systems.
• Deep motion and interaction expertise.

Benefits

• Base salary and equity (stock options/RSUs).
• Highly competitive salary and equity ranges within the SaaS and fintech industry.
• New hire offers based on experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity.
• Target new hire base salary ranges:
  • US employees: $228,700 - $285,900 USD
  • Canadian employees: $216,200 - $270,200 CAD

Company Description

Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.

Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs.