Product Designer @ Affirm

Product Designer

Consumer

Posted on 10/4/2022

INACTIVE

Locations

Remote in USA

Experience Level

Entry

Junior

Mid

Senior

Expert

Desired Skills

Management

UI/UX Design

Requirements

1-2 years experience in consumer product/ux design focused roles
Strong thought approach to the craft of design informed by user needs
Knows how to hold a bar for executional craft and shipping to learn
Self sufficient and uses leadership and peers to seek out feedback and ideas
Ability of operational rigor to improve the culture of the team and cross functional partnerships
Familiar with working with and contributing to a design system
A demonstrated portfolio of your work thinking strategically across multiple consumer experience and shipping successful in-app/web experiences in a fast-paced environment. (Required)

Responsibilities

Help shape the design for our consumer experience
Work through complex and ambiguous situations to clarity and focus
Support with prioritization of short term to long term results-oriented work that drives impact
Partner closely with research, content, product management, and to identify opportunities to invest in delightful experiences
Foster an inclusive environment to allow teams to thrive
Leverage operational rigor for design using principles, frameworks, to support and guide your team for continuous growth of the function and the product

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm proudly includes Returnly.

We’re looking for a Product Designer to help build new consumer experiences across the Activation, Engagement, and Monetization charters within the Affirm Consumer Design Team. You have a breadth of consumer product experience by leveraging your superpower of creating simple and clear experience to improve our consumers’ relationship with payments and money. You’re opinionated about product direction down to the pixels and words, and are relentless about improving the experience. Which results in a win-win-win for our users, merchant and Affirm. You partner well with design leadership: design, research and content to ensure cohesion across the design organization and help drive internal cultural change to champion our users.

What you’ll do

Help shape the design for our consumer experience
Work through complex and ambiguous situations to clarity and focus
Support with prioritization of short term to long term results-oriented work that drives impact
Partner closely with research, content, product management, and to identify opportunities to invest in delightful experiences
Foster an inclusive environment to allow teams to thrive
Leverage operational rigor for design using principles, frameworks, to support and guide your team for continuous growth of the function and the product.

What we look for

1-2 years experience in consumer product/ux design focused roles
Strong thought approach to the craft of design informed by user needs
Knows how to hold a bar for executional craft and shipping to learn
Self sufficient and uses leadership and peers to seek out feedback and ideas
Ability of operational rigor to improve the culture of the team and cross functional partnerships.
Familiar with working with and contributing to a design system
A demonstrated portfolio of your work thinking strategically across multiple consumer experience and shipping successful in-app/web experiences in a fast-paced environment. (Required)

Location - Remote U.S.

Grade - USA28

#LI-Remote

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and can be located anywhere in the U.S. and Canada (with the exception of the U.S. Territories, Quebec, Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories) unless the job indicates a different global location. We are currently building operations in Spain, Poland, and Australia. Employees in remote roles have the option of working remotely or from an Affirm office in their country of hire, and may occasionally travel to an Affirm office or elsewhere for required meetings or team-building events. Our offices in Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Toronto will remain operational and accessible for anyone to use on a voluntary basis, subject to local COVID-19 guidelines.

[For U.S. Candidates] All full-time jobs at Affirm (excluding interns and apprentices) are tied to a transparent grade-based pay range taking location into account. The grade for this position is noted above and in accordance with various U.S. pay transparency laws, we provide the base pay range and benefits for our U.S.-based positions in the links below:

Jobs in Grades 21 through 54

Jobs in Grades 61 through 74

If you got this far, we hope you’re feeling excited about this role. Even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We’re eager to meet people who believe in Affirm’s mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways—not just candidates who check all the boxes.

Inclusivity:

At Affirm, People Come First is one of our core values, and that’s why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our D&I program here and our progress thus far in our 2021 DEI Report.

We also believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

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1,001-5,000 employees

Website

Point of sale installment loans for consumers

Company Overview

Affirm seeks to deliver honest financial products—to improve lives. The company operates a buy-now-pay-later platform for consumers at the point of sale.

Benefits

Spending wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses
Supportive communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups
Remote-first workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country
Generous time off: Take the time you need when life happens
Health benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs
Mental healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs
Parental leave: Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay.
Compensation: We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family.
Away days: We offer 24 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge.
Learning & development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth.

Company Core Values

People come first: We consider our impact on people’s lives before we think about our own interests.
No fine print: We are completely transparent and honest—with our customers and with each other.
It's on us: We take full accountability for our actions, never shirking responsibility or passing the buck.
Simpler is better: We make complex things simple and clear.
Push the envelope: We never stop innovating, taking smart risks, and raising the bar.