Fintech Staff Product Designer - Remote*

WHO WE ARE We are a modern, embedded payroll provider that helps empower companies to build their own unique payroll service. On top of our easy-to-use payroll API we are pioneering an all inclusive tax engine to democratize a broken and cumbersome process providing accessibility to small, medium and large businesses and helping Americans get paid.

Backed by over $14 million in funding from top investors such as Y Combinator, Spark Capital (Marqeta, Coinbase, Affirm), and Robinhood's Founder; Vlad Tenev we are projected to be a forerunner in embedded payroll with an industry amassing billions of dollars in untapped revenue.

Our mission is to empower companies to become their own fin-tech company using our simple, seamless, and forward-thinking payroll technology and we'd love to learn more about you and how you could be a fit for our growing team here!

! This role is open for remote or hybrid in San Francisco, if remote we provide a few company sponsored trips to San Francisco per year ✌️

ABOUT THE ROLE We're looking for an ambitious Staff Product Designer to lead early-stage user research + design and set the foundation for Zeal's design strategy and philosophy. You’ll help to define Zeal’s vision, product strategy, and UX—driving the product design lifecycle end-to-end. You will work in close collaboration with the product, engineering, and partner growth teams, to break down technically complex problems and shape them into elegant, novel solutions that are discoverable, learnable, and powerful.

As an early member of the design team, you’ll also have great influence in shaping our processes, objectives, and growth.

SOME THINGS YOU MAY BE WORKING ON

• Manage several keystone design projects from white-board to product launch with strong teamwork between product and engineering teams
• Design new editions to our white label components, design new and refactor current dashboard features and contribute to design documentation and design best-practices
• Collaborate with our Partner Growth team and conduct user research to iterate on new product design features
• Be a strategic partner in product strategy and how design can play a key role in how we build and ship new product features.
• Creatively work in Figma building beautiful mock-ups
• Iterate on our current design system with a keen focus on UX research, design philosophy, and UI principles.
• Be the voice of design as an IC design leader weighing business needs with the voice of the customer and take initiative on gathering user feedback + data using strong project management capabilities

YOU HAVE

• 6+ years of product design experience
• 4+ years of experience as a product designer working with product and engineering teams
• Familiarity with the customer discovery and development process
• Experience whiteboarding, conducting user research, and creating mock-ups/wireframes/prototypes
• Expert in Figma and Adobe/Sketch/Illustrator
• Ability to understand payroll and APIs with an ability to present your work to stakeholders
• A desire to own design strategy and contribute to the overall product roadmap at Zeal
• Strong design leadership experiences and ability to convey your opinions to cross-departmental teams and stakeholders 

NICE-TO-HAVE

• B2B design experience/start-up experience
• Fintech background or a strong interest to learn more about payroll and APIs

SELLING POINTS

• You will have autonomy/ownership in how our product is designed and developed
• We want to invest in you, we will help you gain the skills and experiences to reach your professional goals here at Zeal and beyond
• We value design and see it as an integral aspect of how Zeal can grow and scale. Our team will be your champions in seeing your designs become a reality!

OUR INTERVIEW PROCESS This is our process for most of our roles, but sometimes stages are subject to change from time to time, but we will definitely notify you of the change ahead of time.

Step 1: Chat with our recruiter Step 2: Chat with the hiring manager Step 3: Take-Home Assignment Step 4: Presentation/Final Interview with the team

After a few days to 1 week, we will get back to you with a decision

ZEAL CULTURE Zeal is located in the SoMa district of San Francisco and we value in-person collaboration and communication as we grow and scale our business. We are a tight-knit, inclusive community that is into music 🎵, cocktails 🍹, pets 🐈🐕, ping-pong 🏓 and above all else ~ high-quality espresso ☕ but more importantly we value championing for our employees to bring their authentic true selves to work and aim to provide a fun and collaborative work environment for everyone!

OUR BENEFITS

• 100% health coverage premium paid by the company; vision, dental
• Generous salary and equity for all staff
• 401k option; helping you save for the future
• up to $4k reimbursement for female employees to get access to safe and legal abortion care
• Monthly benefits stipend to use for lunch, commuting, and other essentials
• Free professional headshot for your LinkedIn
• Free snacks and drinks and Friday happy hours
• Awesome Swag

OUR COMPENSATION & PHILOSOPHY The range for this role is between $160,000 and $200,000 for California-based candidates Check out our Job Leveling, Salary, and Equity Guide to learn more! {https://www.notion.so/Job-Leveling-Salary-and-Equity-at-Zeal-ae4900f63acd465e871a76c5afa9cbbe}

❤️ If you are curious to know more about our culture, check out our Notion Culture Doc https://www.notion.so/Do-remarkable-things-at-Zeal-0d9af42e7dd2498391e1ccfde42c0137

Zeal is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.