Staff Product Designer

LearnLux; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

LearnLux is seeking a Product Designer to lead design efforts focused on enhancing user engagement and financial wellbeing. This role is ideal for someone with extensive experience in digital product design, who thrives in a remote, collaborative environment aiming to make an impactful difference.

Benefits

Remote-first company structure

Medical, dental, and vision

401(k)

Mental wellbeing (Talkspace)

Financial wellbeing (LearnLux)

Equity for full-time employees

Paid vacation and sick leave

Paid sabbatical after 5 years

Inclusive team culture

Opportunities for continuous learning

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience designing digital products, preferably in Fintech or EdTech.
• Deep proficiency in design tools like Figma and BI Tools.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to work collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across teams to uncover design opportunities and create scalable solutions.
• Own strategic design initiatives and drive innovation.
• Mentor other designers and influence design culture.

Skills

User-centered design

Interaction design

Design strategy

Collaboration

Tools

Figma

Pendo

Looker

Tableau

Job description

About LearnLux

LearnLux is the leading provider of workplace financial wellbeing that blends fiduciary digital planning with access to one-on-one guidance from Certified Financial Planner️ professionals. LearnLux's award-winning program equips employees with a financial plan to guide them through decision points like budgeting, paying down debt, electing benefits, understanding equity compensation, starting a family, buying a home, saving for retirement, and more. Advanced reporting keeps our partners in the know, and drives results like reduction in financial stress, increased productivity, reduced employee turnover, greater use of pretax products, on-time retirement, and healthcare savings. LearnLux members feel great about their money, allowing their work and wellbeing to thrive.

We’re a remote-first company, backed by prominent operators such as Ashton Kutcher’s fund Sound Ventures and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.

The Role

As a Product Designer at LearnLux, you’ll thrive at the intersection of craft, strategy, and systems. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role where you’ll operate as a design leader embedded in a team of excellent product thinkers, marketers, engineers, and other designers. You’ll independently identify opportunities, bring bold ideas to life, and elevate the overall product experience across our platform.

This role requires a strong product mindset. You’ll deeply understand our users, the business, and the technical landscape—and use that knowledge to push our platform forward. You’ll work across teams and disciplines, not just to design features, but to shape what we build and why. You’ll set a high bar for UX quality, consistency, and innovation while mentoring others and influencing design culture throughout the company.

At LearnLux, great design is about creating experiences that drive engagement, build trust, and empower users to take action on their financial goals. If you’re driven to improve lives through thoughtful product design, thrive with ambiguity, and are eager to work cross-functionally to make a real impact—this role is for you.

This role is 100% remote within the US and reports to the Head of Engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate across LearnLux to uncover opportunities and design elegant, scalable solutions—partnering with product, engineering, marketing, operations, and customer teams.
• Own complex, strategic design initiatives, including 0 to 1 projects, design systems, and major product evolutions.
• Drive innovation independently - bringing product ideas to the table, prototyping new approaches, and validating them through user research and iteration.
• Help level up the quality of design across the company - establishing patterns, championing best practices, and contributing to the broader design system.
• Influence product direction by contributing to roadmaps and shaping strategy with product, engineering, and executive partners.
• Partner, mentor, and support designers and front-end engineers through feedback, pairing, and design critiques.
• Stay up to date on industry trends, including AI, and bring in fresh perspectives that push us forward.

Qualifications & Experience

• 8+ years of experience designing digital products, preferably in Fintech or EdTech.
• Deep proficiency in Figma, Pendo, and BI Tools(Looker, Tableau, etc)
• A proven track record of owning complex product experiences end-to-end and delivering elegant, user-centered solutions.
• Confidence in navigating ambiguity and defining problems as well as solving them.
• Strong user-centered design expertise, with a deep understanding of UX principles, usability, and interaction design.
• Exceptional craft in interaction design, systems thinking, and visual polish.
• Proven ability to rapidly work autonomously, generate ideas, and get buy-in across disciplines.
• Experience mentoring other designers and shaping design culture.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
• A strong portfolio showcasing problem-solving skills, user research insights, and high-quality UI/UX design work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience withaccessibility best practices and designing inclusive experiences.
• Familiarity with front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) is a plus.
• Working knowledge of Lottie for animations.
• PreviousFintech, wellness platform, or benefits experience is a big plus.
• Experience utilizing AI in a design process, as well as, in a product.

Benefits

• Remote-first company structure
• Medical, dental, and vision
• 401(k)
• Mental wellbeing (Talkspace)
• Financial wellbeing (LearnLux)
• Equity (Full-time employees)
• Paid vacation and sick leave
• Paid sabbatical after 5 years of service
• A supportive, inclusive team culture
• Opportunities for continuous learning and growth at a fast-growing startup at the cutting edge intersection of financial wellness and technology

Closing

LearnLux strives to be an inclusive workplace and values learning from and engaging across different perspectives. Women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and members of other minority or marginalized groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

LearnLux is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against candidates on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, national origin, age, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

We are committed to fostering an environment that embraces diversity and inclusion and are seeking candidates from a variety of backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to join our team. If you are interested in this opportunity but not sure if you fit this role, please apply and include a note to let us know of your interest. We’re excited to speak with you about joining our team!

The pay range for this role is listed below. Individual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience and local cost of labor.

Salary Range

$120,000—$175,000 USD