Design Lead: AI-First Interfaces & Strategy

Nicedesignjobs; United States; Remote; USD 229,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury is redefining the way users interact with fintech software by crafting AI-powered, conversational, and adaptive experiences. You will lead a team of product designers to shape interaction strategies that scale across our product suite with an emphasis on quality and craft.

The role offers strategic influence, close collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Design Systems, and the autonomy to explore bold ideas while delivering thoughtful, pragmatic experiences.

Qualifications

• Experience designing AI-powered or consumer software.
• Strong prototyping skills.
• Close partnership with Design Systems.
• Deep motion and interaction expertise would be especially relevant.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Mercury’s interaction philosophy, with a focus on AI-native, conversational, adaptive, and proactive experiences across our products.
• Set an exceptional bar for product quality across the Interfaces organization, helping teams like mobile, dashboard and our agentic product understand not only whether an experience works, but why it feels right.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of product designers, creating an environment where designers can take creative risks and consistently produce exceptional work.
• Shape product strategy alongside Product and Engineering, bringing design into ambiguous problems early and helping teams identify the right problems to solve.
• Stay close to the work, using critique, prototyping, exploration, and hands-on collaboration to push ideas further and turn ambitious concepts into thoughtful experiences.
• Help raise the craft and product-thinking bar of Mercury’s broader Design organization, sharing frameworks and emerging ideas.

Job description

Mercury is redefining the way users interact with fintech software by crafting AI-powered, conversational, and adaptive experiences. You will lead a team of product designers to shape interaction strategies that scale across our product suite with an emphasis on quality and craft.

The role offers strategic influence, close collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Design Systems, and the autonomy to explore bold ideas while delivering thoughtful, pragmatic experiences.