Principal Product Designer

**Description**:
Funding Societies | Modalku is the largest SME digital financing platform in Southeast Asia, expanding into a leading SME neobank. We are licensed and registered in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and operating in Vietnam, and backed by Sequoia India, Softbank Vision Fund and SMBC bank amongst many others. Funding Societies | Modalku provides business financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is funded by individual and institutional investors. And here at Funding Societies | Modalku we live by our core values:

- Serve with Obsession: Build win-win relationships for the long-term by having a customer obsession.
- Grow Relentlessly: Strive to become our best, most authentic selves.
- Enable Teamwork, Disable Politics: Only by forging togetherness, we help each other succeed.
- Test Measure Act: Stay curious and reinvent ourselves, through innovation and experimentation.
- Focus on Impact: Create impact through bias for action and tangible results.

Principal Product Design will be part of a small (and mighty) product design team to help us deliver products that are transparent and a pleasure to use. Boundaries between teams are permeable, so you will work closely with other teams on a broad set of design challenges and have a big impact on creating software solutions.

**Requirements**:
What you will do:

- You’ll drive direct impact on our products, reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer.
- You’ll practice your knowledge of **UX principles** and best practices in our product design process.
- You’ll produce and test **interaction flows and mocks** that accurately communicate product functionality to product and engineering teams.
- You’ll conduct **product discovery** and support ongoing research projects with an intellectual curiosity.
- You’ll collaborate with **cross-functional teams **- design, engineering, data, product managers, to define solutions to problems.
- Sometimes you’ll work on very broadly defined, loose concepts, and sometimes on narrowly defined, tactical deliverables.
- You’ll plan and participate in **design reviews** and share your work regularly.
- You’ll **focus** on what you do best — whether that’s sketches, wireframes, prototypes, designs, or code—and you’ll have the opportunity to sharpen the skills you’re looking to develop.
- You’ll be expected to also **mentor **and** educate **fellow designers, especially on hard skills.

What we are looking for:

- You are able to identify what a great product looks and feels like, and have the **confidence to challenge **the team to produce the best possible result.
- You are an analytical, creative and visual thinker with excellent **communication** skills, both **verbal** and **visual**. You are skilled in explaining your work, process, and decisions to cross-functional stakeholders and crave feedback to help you produce your best work.
- You are **thoughtful, organized, and disciplined**. You take initiative and ownership to see things through to completion.
- What drives you is **making things people love to use**. You are excited to solve complex problems in driven by a deep empathy and passion for our users.
- You care about **details** and are excited to keep pushing your work until is pixel-perfect.
- You are passionate about inclusive design and accessibility.
- You are comfortable or open to working in a **distributed team** setting.

You will shine in this role is you are/you have:

- At least 4 years product design experience at a product-driven company
- BA/BS/MS degree in graphic design, human-computer interaction, computer science, or related field.
- Experience with **design tools **(we use Figma).
- A **design portfolio** that demonstrates design principles and prototyping for web and/or mobile platforms

**Benefits**:

- Time off - We would love you to take time off to rest and rejuvenate. We offer flexible paid vacations as well as many other observed holidays by country. We also like to have our people take a day off for special days like birthdays and work anniversaries.
- Flexible Working - We believe in giving back the control of work & life to our people. We trust our people and love to provide the space to accommodate each and everyone's working style and personal life.
- Medical Benefits - We offer health insurance coverage for our employees and dependents. Our people focus on our mission knowing we have their back for their loved ones too.
- Mental Health and Wellness - We understand that our team productivity is directly linked to our mental and physical health. Hence we have Wellness Wednesdays and we engage partners to provide well-being coaching. And we have our Great FSMK Workout sessions too to keep everyone healthy and fit
- Tech Support - We provide a company laptop for our employees and the best possible support for the right equipment/tools to enable high productivity