Staff Product Designer

Brex
Seattle, WA
HybridCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Experienced product designers with a track record in building customer-facing products from 0 to 1 and strong cross-functional communication skills will find this leadership-oriented role in financial innovation.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 10+ years of experience and a history of launching products from concept to execution
    — “Experience building customer-facing products from 0 to 1
  • Individuals who thrive in collaborative, cross-functional environments and can influence product outcomes
    — “Partner with the leadership team to successfully communicate concisely across the team and influence product and design outcomes
  • Designers who value high standards of execution and have a strong focus on user needs and clarity
    — “Push forward and maintain a high design bar and level of execution

Things to consider

  • Requires three days per week in-office with limited remote flexibility despite hybrid environment claims
    — “We currently require three days per week in office - Monday, Wednesday and Thursday
  • Compensation is high but may be influenced by location and internal pay parity
    — “The expected salary range for this role is $240,000 - $300,000

How to stand out

  • Highlight your ability to define and execute product vision with clear strategic narratives
    — “Strong ability to craft a clear narrative and paint a vision that communicates and aligns teams
  • Emphasize experience in scaling design practices within a growing organization
    — “Contribute toward growing and scaling design across the broader company and within the Design org
  • Showcase your cross-functional collaboration experience, especially with engineering and product teams
    — “Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, marketing, design, and product management teams
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • successful product launches
  • high visual standards
  • user needs focus
Typical background
experience in product designbackground in user experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Product DesignUser Experience DesignInterface DesignCollaboration With Engineering And Product TeamsVisual Design

Preferred

Brand DesignMotion Design

About the role

Original posting from Brex

Why join us

Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek.

Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.

Design at Brex

Design at Brex creates the experiences that make complex systems feel effortless through thoughtful, scalable design. Whether crafting interfaces, shaping product strategy, or harnessing AI to empower our users, we obsess over quality and clarity. This is a team where creativity meets high craft, and where designers grow by building for ambitious customers.

What you’ll do

You will work with Product and Engineering teams to successfully communicate, evolve, and execute a strong product design standard that showcases Brex as a leader in financial innovation. You are a crucial component of our company’s growth and product launches through your contributions to short and long-term strategic direction, creating and maintaining high visual standards and a strong focus on user needs. You have an owner’s mentality, taking pride in your work and in your team’s work, and view what you do as a part-owner and builder of Brex.

Where you’ll work

This role will be based in our San Francisco, Seattle, or New York office. We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home. We currently require three days per week in office - Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!

Responsibilities

Use creative thinking toward establishing and executing on the vision for the team initiatives

Challenge the status quo, push innovation, and inspire people toward a unified outcome

Efficiently execute to ship products that deliver impact for our business and customers

Partner with the leadership team to successfully communicate concisely across the team and influence product and design outcomes

Work across the entire business stack and make an impact at different stages of the product: building vision & strategy, ensuring all the loose ends are tied up when executing, and making sure the operational components to support onboarding are in place, not just the product

Contribute toward growing and scaling design across the broader company and within the Design org

Push forward and maintain a high design bar and level of execution

Work closely with stakeholders across the organization, partnering with Engineering, Product, Operations, and Data teams to define and launch new products and features

Requirements

Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a talent for detailed articulations of strategy, process, and leading cross-functional meetings to align teams

Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, marketing, design, and product management teams

Strong ability to craft a clear narrative and paint a vision that communicates and aligns teams

Passion for team building and development

10+ years of experience as a product designer

Experience building customer-facing products from 0 to 1 

Bonus points

Experience working with tools including but not limited to Figma, Jira, Looker, Slack, Google Apps, Salesforce, Chrome Console

Experience working on products in both B2B and B2C companies 

Experience writing/editing/contributing to documentation, training materials, and help articles to support product launches

Compensation

The expected salary range for this role is $240,000 - $300,000.  However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.

Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.

Source: Brex careers

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