Principal Product Designer
Job Description
Figure is looking for a Principal Product Designer to help shape the future of our financial products, with a primary focus on Figure Markets and opportunities to work across our broader lending ecosystem. This is a senior individual contributor role for a designer who thrives in complex, ambiguous problem spaces. You will work on products that span investing, lending, borrowing, digital assets, capital markets, and emerging financial infrastructure, often in areas where the product model itself is still being defined.
Salary: $158,400 – $237,600/yr
Key Responsibilities
- Lead product design for complex initiatives across Figure Markets, while contributing to shared problems and experiences across Figure Lending and other products.
- Take ambiguous or incomplete product requirements and turn them into coherent end-to-end experiences, identifying missing logic, dependencies, edge cases, and opportunities along the way.
- Develop a deep understanding of financial concepts, customer workflows, business models, and technical constraints in order to simplify inherently complicated products.
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering from early problem definition through implementation, helping shape requirements rather than simply designing against them.
- Explore multiple approaches to difficult problems, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and help teams make informed product decisions.
- Design sophisticated workflows, data-dense interfaces, account and transaction experiences, permissions, states, and other interaction models common to financial products.
- Think beyond the primary happy path. Anticipate error states, lifecycle changes, permissions, regulatory constraints, system behavior, and downstream consequences of design decisions.
- Create prototypes and high-fidelity designs that make complex product ideas tangible and help teams align quickly.
- Work within and contribute to Figure’s evolving design system, identifying opportunities to establish reusable patterns without forcing unique product problems into generic solutions.
- Partner closely with Engineering during implementation to preserve intent, resolve unexpected constraints, and maintain a high bar for product quality.
- Use research, customer feedback, product data, domain expertise, and cross-functional input to inform design decisions.
Key Requirements
- 8+ years of product design experience, including significant experience owning complex products or major product areas.
- A portfolio demonstrating strong product thinking, interaction design, and visual craft across real, shipped experiences.
- A track record of solving complicated problems where requirements, customer needs, or the underlying product model were not fully defined at the outset.
- Strong systems thinking and an ability to understand how decisions in one part of a product affect workflows, states, users, and systems elsewhere.
- Excellent interaction design skills, particularly for sophisticated workflows, data-heavy products, and multi-step experiences.
- Strong visual design fundamentals and a high bar for typography, hierarchy, layout, information density, interaction detail, and overall product polish.
- The ability to independently drive work from early problem framing through detailed design and implementation.
- Comfort working closely with engineers and understanding enough about technical systems to make pragmatic design decisions.
