Director of Product Design

Join Stash, a leading fintech company, as the Director of Product Design. In this role, you will manage a team of two designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage work. You will set the direction for the customer experience, simplify complex problems, and drive quality through reviews and close collaboration with Product and Engineering. You will also help the team work in a modern way, including the practical use of AI, and ensure that design remains human-centered throughout the entire journey.

• Manage and mentor a team of designers, while also contributing to high-leverage design work.
• Set direction for the customer experience, simplify complex problems, and drive quality through reviews and systems thinking.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the product feels like one brand and meets high standards.
• Proven ability to make strategic decisions and hold a strong POV on what the product should look and feel like—and the communication skills to get others behind it
• Experience using Figma and Jira as core tools of your workflow
• Experience and genuine excitement about leveraging AI to improve design efficiency and process. At Stash, we use Claude Design and Cursor as part of our design workflow
• Senior product design leadership: strong end-to-end product sense, systems thinking, and a track record shipping great work with Product and Engineering in a fast environment
• Player-coach, you’ll manage two designers and carry IC ownership on key work; you’re credible in craft, useful in the details, and accountable for your team’s outcomes
• Strong collaborator: Engineering, Product, and Marketing teams are excited to work with you. You build trust across functions and communicate design decisions with clarity and conviction
• 8+ years of experience in a fast-paced D2C product design environment
• Intellectually curious and self-driven: you push into ambiguity, learn the domain, and move work forward without needing someone to script your week
• Extreme ownership mindset: you’re a self-starter who sets the example through your design craft, raises the bar for the team, and doesn’t wait to be told what to do
• Fintech, investing, or other regulated consumer experience: comfort building UX that earns trust and holds up under scrutiny. Subscription product experience is a strong plus
• AI in the workflow with outcomes: you’ve put AI-assisted design workflows in place in a way that actually changed how software gets delivered—speed, clarity, handoffs, reuse
• Design systems and quality at scale: you know how patterns, critique, and consistency help teams move quickly without shipping sloppy work
• Experience owning user research and understanding when it should meaningfully influence the design process — knowing when deeper customer insight is necessary, when rapid iteration is more appropriate, and how to apply research thoughtfully