Senior Product Designer

Job Description About Tala Tala is on a mission to unleash the economic power of the Global Majority the 4 billion people overlooked by existing financial systems. With nearly half a billion dollars raised from equity and debt, we are serving millions of customers across three continents. Tala has been named by the Fortune Impact 20 list, CNBCs Disruptor 50 five years in a row, CNBCs World's Top Fintech Company, Forbes Fintech 50 list for eight years running, and Chief's The New Era of Leadership Award. We are expanding across product offerings, countries and crypto and are looking for people who have an entrepreneurial spirit and are passionate about our m ission. By creating a unique platform that enables lending and other financial services around the globe, people in emerging markets are able to start and expand small businesses, manage day-to-day needs, and pursue their financial goals with confidence. Currently, over nine million people across Kenya, the Philippines, Mexico, and India have used Tala products. Due to our global team, we have a remote-first approach, and also have offices in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India. Most Talazens join us because they connect with our mission. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Tala, we'd love to hear from you The Role As a Senior Product Designer, you'll be a key leader and contributor on our design team, which is focused on Tala's core business of helping customers get flexible loans and increase their financial agency. You will have the opportunity to build brand new products across our markets, as we make Tala products available to more customers. As a part of the Product Design team, you will be a problem solver, collaborator, and ambitious about elevating the quality of our products and how we build them. What You'll Do - Create customer-centric experiences and user friendly features, partnering with other Product Designers, product and development teams to create and ship on a regular basis - Lead projects beyond the scope of the immediate roadmap, working with other designers and stakeholders to identify and validate user problems and work toward durable solutions - Produce design assets that include user flows, wireframes, low / high-fidelity comps, design prototypes, and design specifications - Lead a team of designers, encourage best practices in process and methodology and deliver against business KPIs and customer needs - Coach team to use established design system, style guides, patterns and assets in the creation of UX deliverables What You'll Need - 5+ years of professional UX/UI design experience in a fast-paced tech environment - Has experience working with Design Systems and thinks and designs at a system level, not just interface elements or pages - Experience with usability research, gathering requirements and rapidly translating information and insights into design experiments, solutions and artifacts (diagrams, flows, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, usability tests, visual design, etc.) - Fluency in Figma (bonus: other UX/UI tools) - A well-rounded portfolio that shows your work, aesthetics, design thinking processes and deliverables Our vision is to build a new financial ecosystem where everyone can participate on equal footing and access the tools they need to be financially healthy. We strongly believe that inclusion fosters innovation and we're proud to have a diverse global team that represents a multitude of backgrounds, cultures, and experience. We hire talented people regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.