Extend - Product Designer II
Requirements
• Experience: 3+ years of professional experience in product design, with a portfolio showcasing shipped work in consumer or B2B software. • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, CS, or a related field—or equivalent professional experience showing a strong grasp of design fundamentals and user-centered methodology. • Education • Core Competency: We need a designer who delivers more than just wireframes. You should have a portfolio that demonstrates high-fidelity mastery—specifically in typography, grid systems, and layout. You can translate complex requirements into polished, production-ready Figma files that are as aesthetically "finished" as they are functional. • Core Competency: • Systems Thinking: The ability to work within an established design system while identifying opportunities to improve or expand components for the team. • Systems Thinking: • Communication: A clear communicator who can explain the "why" behind design decisions and collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners. • Communication: • Figma Mastery: Advanced expertise in Figma (auto-layout, components, variables) to maintain visual consistency and build high-fidelity prototypes that feel like the real product. • Figma Mastery • Technical Literacy: A solid understanding of how designs are implemented in code (HTML/CSS/React basics) to ensure feasible handoffs. • Technical Literacy: • Nice-To-Haves: • Retail & E-commerce Fluency: Prior experience designing for merchant dashboards, checkout flows, or post-purchase experiences. • Retail & E-commerce Fluency: • Design System Contribution: Experience managing or evolving a shared component library in Figma (e.g., documenting guidelines or building complex variants). • Design System Contribution: • Fintech Curiosity: An understanding of the complexities of financial transactions, fraud prevention, or insurance tech. • Fintech Curiosity: • Expected Pay Range: $111,000 - $129,000 per year salaried*
Responsibilities
• This role will support feature development while driving visual design to ensure elegant, easy to use experiences for consumers, merchants and internal users. As a product designer you will also lead stakeholders and product partners with your visual design expertise, user experience guidance, and user research to deliver high-fidelity, production ready design solutions on time in a fast-paced startup environment. • Drive/Enhance/Support Visual Design: Create polished, dev-ready Figma design deliverables for end-to-end experiences that demonstrate all requirements for a defined workflow while seeking to enhance the user experience at every touchpoint. • Drive/Enhance/Support Visual Design: • Own Feature Outcomes: Take ownership of assigned product features and user flows, translating high-level requirements into intuitive, functional visual design deliverables (wireframes, designs, and prototypes) in Figma, leveraging our design system. • Own Feature Outcomes: • Collaborative Execution: Partner closely with Product Managers, Engineering and stakeholders to deliver persona-first, data-driven solutions while you navigate technical constraints and business goals in a fast-paced startup environment. • Collaborative Execution: • Design with Data: Leverage user research, analytics, and feedback to iterate on designs and advocate for the best user experience for each feature and flow. • Design with Data: • Accelerate with AI: Leverage modern AI-assisted tools (e.g., Figma Make, Claude, or research synthesis tools) to automate repetitive tasks and rapidly prototype high-fidelity explorations. • Accelerate with AI: • Contribute to the Design System: Actively use and contribute to the Extend Design System, ensuring your work is scalable and maintains visual consistency and design excellence across the platform. • Contribute to the Design System: • Refine the Craft: Participate in design reviews and critiques, providing constructive feedback to peers and helping to elevate the team’s overall output and design excellence. • Refine the Craft:
Benefits
• The target base salary range for this position is listed above. Individual salaries are determined based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, job-related knowledge, skills and experience. • Life at Extend: • Life at Extend: • Working with a great team from diverse backgrounds in a collaborative and supportive environment. • Competitive salary based on experience, with full medical and dental & vision benefits. • Stock in an early-stage startup growing quickly. • Generous, flexible paid time off policy. • 401(k) with Financial Guidance from Morgan Stanley. • Extend CCPA HR Notice
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