Staff Product Designer

Staff Product Designer

Requirements

• 6+ years (Senior) or 10+ years (Staff) experience in user-centered product design
• Experience with large-scale platform products and collaboration tools.
• Experience in designing B2B SaaS product
• Ability to balance methodological rigor with scrappiness and creativity in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design in Ambiguity: Embrace the challenge of designing from the ground up, leading the creation of 0-to-1 user experiences for our upcoming infrastructure projects, while navigating evolving business requirements and ambiguity.
• Think in Modularity: Lead the design of highly configurable system-level functionalities. Create small, interchangeable components that adapt to different use cases efficiently.
• Consider Diverse User Roles: Advocate for the needs of user roles from IT professionals to Client Experience agents and back-office teams, through user-centered design. Ensure designs can scale and support varied user experiences.
• Evolve Design System: Contribute to and refine Valon’s design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across all products.
• Create Customizable Systems: Build flexible, user-friendly interfaces that empower subservicers to customize workflows, process management, and automation for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Simplify Complex Information: Design information architecture that simplifies complex loan data sets, making them easily accessible and contextually relevant for users—ensuring data is organized effectively.
• Drive User Journeys & Prototyping: Develop and iterate on user flows, wireframes, and prototypes, ensuring design decisions are aligned with business and user needs—particularly for complex mortgage servicing use cases.
• Champion Cross-Functional and Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with product, engineering, and business teams to ensure design solutions are feasible, aligned with objectives, and informed by insights from other teams.
• Provide Design Mentorship: Collaborate with other Product Designers, providing constructive and motivating feedback that helps improve their skills and the outcomes of their work. Actively participate in design critiques to ensure quality and consistency across Valon products.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a startup environment.
• Familiarity with the mortgage industry, prop tech, or financial systems.
• Experience designing for both consumer tech and enterprise software.