About the role

Senior Design Manager shaping AI-native interfaces for Mercury’s fintech products. Leading product designers and evolving reusable interaction patterns across the company.

Responsibilities

Define and evolve Mercury’s interaction philosophy, focusing on AI-native, conversational, adaptive, and proactive experiences across products
Set an exceptional product-quality bar across the Interfaces organization, including mobile, dashboard, and agentic products
Lead, coach, and develop a team of product designers
Shape product strategy with Product and Engineering and bring design into ambiguous problems early
Use critique, prototyping, exploration, and hands-on collaboration to improve concepts and experiences
Raise the craft and product-thinking bar across Mercury’s broader Design organization by sharing frameworks, perspectives, and emerging ideas
Develop interaction patterns that can influence how Mercury builds software across the company

Exceptional product taste and strong visual and interaction design fundamentals
Strong point of view on AI-native interfaces
Experience experimenting with conversational, adaptive, intelligent, and proactive interaction models
Successfully led and developed product designers
Ability to recognize individual designers' strengths and provide clear, thoughtful feedback
Ability to think about interactions as systems, including patterns, information architecture, behaviors, and principles
Experience partnering strategically with Product and Engineering
Understanding of technical constraints
Ability to operate independently with a strong point of view
Experience designing AI-powered or consumer software, strong prototyping skills, close partnership with Design Systems, or deep motion and interaction expertise especially relevant but not required

Equity (stock options/RSUs)
Benefits
Equal Employment Opportunity employer
Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs