[Hiring] Senior Product Designer, Engagement @NerdWallet

Role Description

As a Senior Product Designer on the Engagement team, you’ll own end-to-end design for one or more product pods, shaping the user experiences that bring people back to NerdWallet and help them make smarter financial decisions. You’ll work at the intersection of user needs, business outcomes, and technical possibility, partnering closely with Product and Engineering to deliver high-quality experiences with speed.

This is an opportunity to help define what design looks like on an AI-native team, one of the most exciting and consequential design challenges happening right now in consumer tech.

Where you can make an impact:

• Shape financial lives at scale.
• Help define AI-native design.
• Set the design bar.
• Own the product conversation.
• Advance your skills in a fast-moving environment.

What you’ll do:

• Define a design vision that balances user needs with engagement and monetization goals, developing end-to-end journeys with a systems mindset.
• Leverage AI-powered tools to accelerate ideation and prototype AI-driven experiences.
• Deliver production-ready designs at pace, contributing to NerdWallet’s design system through reusable components.
• Partner with PMs, Engineers, and Analysts on usability tests and concept validation.
• Build strong relationships across Engineering, Product, QA, and Marketing.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional product design experience, ideally in a consumer-facing tech environment.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong craft across end-to-end product work.
• Proficiency in Figma, including component-based design and prototyping.
• Experience designing for native mobile apps (iOS and/or Android) and mobile web.
• Demonstrated ability to use research and data to drive and explain design decisions.
• Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiarity with AI-powered features or an eagerness to grow in this area.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and fast-paced environments.

Benefits

• Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents.
• Rejuvenation Policy – Flexible Vacation Time Off + 11 holidays + holiday company shutdown.
• New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care.
• Mental health support.
• Paid sabbatical after 5 years for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge, and pursue their interests.
• Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution.
• Monthly Wellness Stipend, Cell Phone Stipend, and Wifi Stipend (Only remote Nerds are eligible for the Wifi Stipend).
• Work from home equipment stipend and co-working space subsidy (Only remote Nerds are eligible for these stipends).
• Nerd-led group initiatives – Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity, and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities.
• Hackathons and team events across all teams and departments.
• Company-wide events like NerdLove (employee appreciation) and our annual Charity Auction.
• Take 8 hours of volunteer time off per quarter and donate to your favorite causes with a company match.
• 401K with 4% company match.
• Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar.
• Disability and Life Insurance with employer-paid premiums.

Company Description

NerdWallet is committed to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, so all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

NerdWallet will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act and the San Francisco Fair Chance Act.

NerdWallet participates in the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services E-Verify program for all US locations.