Principal Designer, Banking

block; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings

Family planning

Job summary

block is seeking a hands-on principal design leader for Banking products, supervising experiences where customers store and move money, including cards, deposits, savings, borrowing, and family accounts.

The role blends exploration with craftsmanship, delivering clear, trusted, and warm fintech experiences while collaborating with Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and Research across the org.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product design experience with a strong craft and systems thinking.
• Experience shipping zero-to-one products, not just iterating on existing ones.
• Mastery of interaction, visual, and systems design with good judgment.
• Experience in regulated spaces where clarity and trust matter (fintech/banking).
• Autonomy in ambiguity, setting direction and guiding partners.
• Fluency with AI and prototyping tools and their impact on design practice.
• Strong influence and communication with cross-functional leadership.
• Hands-on design work that sets the standard.

Responsibilities

• Own complex, ambiguous initiatives end to end from exploration to shipped product.
• Drive zero-to-one experiences that are strategically grounded and visually distinctive.
• Set and defend quality bar for Banking design and own personal output.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and Research to translate regulatory logic into clear experiences.
• Prototype early and often using AI to shorten path from idea to working software.
• Shape long-term product vision and design strategy across surfaces.
• Contribute to and extend shared design systems for cohesion across products.
• Elevate peer designers through critique, feedback, and craft.

Skills

Product design

Systems thinking

AI prototyping

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

A hands-on principal design role on a Banking team, focused on the products where customers actually keep and move their money, including cards, deposits, savings, borrowing, and family-oriented accounts. The position blends zero-to-one product exploration with raising craft on already-shipped experiences, working within the unusual constraints of regulated financial software where clarity, trust, and warmth must coexist. It pairs deep individual contribution with cross-functional leadership across Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and Research.

Responsibilities

• Own complex, ambiguous initiatives end to end, from early exploration through shipped product
• Drive zero-to-one product experiences that are strategically grounded and visually distinctive
• Set and defend the quality bar for Banking design, demonstrating excellence in personal output
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and Research to translate financial and regulatory logic into experiences people immediately grasp
• Prototype early and often using AI and emerging tools to shorten the path from idea to working software
• Shape long-term product vision and design strategy across surfaces, and influence what makes the roadmap
• Contribute to and extend shared design systems and patterns to strengthen cohesion across products
• Elevate peer designers through critique, feedback, and modeled craft

Requirements

• 10+ years of product design experience, with a portfolio showing exceptional craft and systems thinking
• A track record of shipping zero-to-one products, not only iterating on existing ones
• Mastery of interaction, visual, and systems design, with judgment to know which a problem actually needs
• Experience designing in complex, high-stakes domains where clarity and trust are non-negotiable, such as fintech, banking, health, or another regulated space
• Proven ability to operate autonomously through ambiguity, setting direction and bringing partners along
• Fluency with AI and prototyping tools, with a real point of view on how they change design practice
• Strong influence and communication skills as a peer to cross-functional leadership
• A hands-on posture where your own design work sets the standard

Benefits and work setup

• Remote-friendly with distributed team support across the countries where the organization operates
• Medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning benefits
• Market-based pay, with U.S. pay ranges published by geographic zone