Senior Product Designer - Fintech Mobile at Mercury in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
Compensation vs. Market: The US range of $189,000–$236,200 sits firmly in the top quartile for Senior Product Designers in fintech. Industry benchmarks (Levels.fyi, Glassdoor) place senior product designer total compensation at $150k–$200k at most mid-stage companies; Mercury's range — plus equity (stock options/RSUs) — is genuinely competitive and suggests a well-funded, growth-stage company that values design.
Career Development: This is a high-autonomy, high-ownership role. Leading the entire mobile design vision (not just individual features) is the kind of scope typically reserved for Staff or Principal designers elsewhere. Key skills you'll build:
- Native iOS and Android design systems at scale
- Fintech UX — a specialized, high-value niche
- Cross-functional product leadership (working with PMs and engineers on "what to build")
- Design craft in a consumer-quality B2B product context
Culture Signals: The Memphis Group reference and emphasis on "expressive" design signal a company that genuinely values craft over utilitarian output — a green flag for designers tired of feature factories. The mention of shipping "quickly" and iterating suggests a startup-paced culture despite Mercury's maturity (~$1.6B valuation as of recent rounds).
Green Flags: Small, senior design team; direct product impact; equity upside; rare combination of craft-first culture with fintech scale. Watch for: Fast-paced shipping expectations may limit deep explorative design work at times.
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States
The Memphis Group burst onto the scene in the early 1980s with a belief that design could be more than purely functional — it could be bold, expressive, and deeply human. They expanded what design could be, embracing color, emotion, and personality at a time when clarity and restraint dominated. That same spirit of possibility, of questioning defaults and reimagining what tools can feel like, still resonates today.
At Mercury, we're building banking for builders. Entrepreneurs who are often on the go and need to manage their business from anywhere. People who live complex lives who need their personal finances to feel like a breeze. We're rethinking what financial tools can feel like when they're designed with real people in mind: fast, expressive, and thoughtfully crafted from the ground up.
We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to help define what modern banking should feel like for founders on the go. This role is unique because you'll help define the holistic future of Mercury's mobile experience — not just design features. You'll work alongside another senior designer focused on pushing craft forward, ship high-impact work quickly and see it used by real businesses immediately, and have room to explore ambitious ideas and turn them into real products.
What you'll do
- Lead design for major mobile initiatives from concept through launch and iteration
- Shape the vision for Mercury's native iOS and Android experiences
- Turn complex financial workflows into simple, intuitive interactions
- Work closely with product managers and engineers to decide what to build and why
- Prototype ideas quickly to explore direction, test assumptions, and refine details
- Design polished, production-ready interfaces with exceptional craft and precision
- Contribute to our design systems and help evolve patterns across platforms
- Raise the quality bar for interaction, visual design, and product thinking across the team
What we're looking for
- 6+ years designing high-quality product experiences
- Strong visual and interaction design skills with a sharp eye for detail
- Experience designing complex systems, not just individual screens
- Ability to work through ambiguity and drive projects forward independently
- Clear communicator who can articulate decisions and influence product direction
- Experience designing native mobile apps (iOS and/or Android)
- Thoughtful collaborator who makes teammates better
Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.
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:
- US employees (any location): $189,000–$236,200 USD
- Canadian employees (any location): $178,600–$223,200 CAD
We use Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on January 22, 2024. Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey here.
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/mercury-senior-product-designer-mobile
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