Design Leader – Fintech Payments & Treasury

Mercury; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury is looking for a Design Manager to lead design for our Business Banking and Investments teams, shaping payments, accounts, and treasury experiences. You’ll guide the quality and craft of work, help develop designers, and partner with product and engineering to push the boundaries of fintech design.

The role requires strong visual and interaction design sense, a clear point of view, and the ability to drive critique and direction that helps the team ship meaningful products.

Responsibilities

• Raise the quality bar of the team's work. Own the visual and interaction quality of the experiences your team ships, from the structure of a complex workflow to typography, composition, spacing, and motion. Make the standard concrete through thoughtful critique and clear direction. Review the implemented experience, not just the design file.
• Challenge the status quo. Partner with Product and Engineering to shape an ambitious direction for payments, accounts, and treasury. Question inherited assumptions, including our own. Help the team distinguish genuine constraints from familiar habits, explore alternatives, and turn the strongest ideas into simpler, more useful products.
• Take ownership from problem to outcome. Identify opportunities without waiting for a brief. Create clarity when the path is ambiguous, bring the right people together, make decisions, and work through obstacles. Your responsibility continues after handoff and launch: understand what changed for customers and the business, and act when the results fall short.
• Get hands-on where your craft makes a difference. Sketch a stronger direction, prototype an

Job description

Mercury is looking for a Design Manager to lead design for our Business Banking and Investments teams, shaping payments, accounts, and treasury experiences. You’ll guide the quality and craft of work, help develop designers, and partner with product and engineering to push the boundaries of fintech design.

The role requires strong visual and interaction design sense, a clear point of view, and the ability to drive critique and direction that helps the team ship meaningful products.