[Hiring] Senior Design Manager @Mercury

Role Description

We’re looking for a Design Manager with that combination of creative leadership and personal craft. Someone with strong design judgement, deep visual craft, and the ambition to change what businesses expect from financial software.

You’ll lead design for Mercury’s Business Banking and Investments teams, spanning payments, accounts, and treasury. These teams help businesses move money, organize their accounts, and put idle cash to work. As the team grows, you’ll be accountable for the quality of its work, the development of its designers, and the impact of the experiences it ships.

Our ambition goes beyond making familiar banking workflows look better. We want to question how they work, identify what customers should no longer have to think about, and create something meaningfully better. That takes a leader who can recognize a promising idea, push it further, and bring a team together to make it real.

Visual design matters deeply in this role. So do interaction design, simplicity, and the judgment to make them work together. You should have a clear point of view about what excellent looks like and the hands-on ability to demonstrate it. You’ll hold a high standard through specific feedback, compelling direction, and a willingness to work alongside the team. People should feel inspired to do the best work of their careers, and supported in getting there.

In this role, you’ll:

• Raise the quality bar of the team's work.
• Own the visual and interaction quality of the experiences your team ships, from the structure of a complex workflow to typography, composition, spacing, and motion.
• Challenge the status quo.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to shape an ambitious direction for payments, accounts, and treasury.
• Take ownership from problem to outcome.
• Get hands-on where your craft makes a difference.
• Turn ambition into excellent work that ships on time.
• Build a healthy team with high expectations.

Qualifications

• Have strong visual and interaction design craft.
• Know how to simplify complex product experiences.
• Have managed designers and raised the quality of their work.
• Have set a product vision and helped a team deliver it.
• Stay close to the design work.
• Build strong partnerships with Product and Engineering.
• Think and work like an owner.
• Build conviction without relying on authority.

Requirements

• Your portfolio demonstrates thoughtful typography, composition, hierarchy, and interaction design in shipped products.
• You can work through complicated workflows, information architecture, and product constraints to make experiences clear and intuitive.
• You can show how your coaching, feedback, and clear expectations helped designers grow and improved what reached customers.
• You can connect an ambitious direction to practical decisions about scope and sequencing, with shipped work and clear customer or business impact.
• You’re comfortable sketching, prototyping, and working through detailed design problems alongside designers.
• You’ve shaped priorities together, worked through competing constraints, and used clear storytelling to build alignment around design decisions.
• You act on what’s best for customers and the business, not just what’s in the brief.
• You can tell a clear story about where the product should go and why.

Benefits

• The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.
• Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry.
• New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.
• Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:
• US employees (any location): $228,700 - $285,900 USD
• Canadian employees (any location): $216,200 - $270,200 CAD

Company Description

Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.