Senior Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

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Oakland, CA
Senior level
Fintech
The Role
The Senior Staff Product Designer will lead the evolution of Credit Karma's visual language, create prototypes for the design system, and coach other designers on best practices while identifying opportunities for innovation in design. This role involves collaborating with executive leadership and ensuring design quality across user flows and components.
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Intuit Credit Karma is a mission-driven company, focused on championing financial progress for our more than 140 million members globally. While we're best known for pioneering free credit scores, our members turn to us for everything related to their financial goals, including identity monitoring, applying for credit cards, shopping for insurance and loans (car, home and personal) and savings accounts and checking accounts* – all for free. Credit Karma has grown significantly through the years: we now have more than 1,700 employees across our offices in Oakland, Charlotte, Culver City, San Diego, London, Bangalore, and New York City.


*Banking services provided by MVB Bank, Inc., Member FDIC

We are looking for passionate and thoughtful product designers to help our members and push our design systems to a best-in-class standard. The Credit Karma Product Design team evolves through collaboration, reflection and innovation. We're always looking for ways to do better for our users and ourselves. 

What you will do: 

  • Lead the evolution of Credit Karma's visual language, partnering directly with executive leadership to shape and drive the vision
  • Create compelling concepts and prototypes that demonstrate potential future directions for our design system and product experience
  • Transform high-level direction into concrete implementation plans and execution roadmaps for our design systems team
  • Identify opportunities to innovate on our component libraries, design tokens, and tooling
  • Set the standard for visual design quality from component-level details to full user flows while balancing brand expression with platform best practices
  • Partner with brand design to ensure our product design system thoughtfully incorporates brand elements
  • Coach other designers on visual design craft and design systems thinking
  • Research emerging platform patterns and technologies to inform system evolution

What we are looking for:

  • 10+ years product design experience with deep expertise designing consumer native app
  • 5+ years design systems experience
  • Exceptional visual and graphic design capabilities
  • Strong understanding of brand design principles and application
  • Advanced knowledge of Figma, including plugins, design tokens, and component architecture
  • Deep familiarity with iOS and Android platform patterns and evolution
  • Experience presenting to and influencing executive stakeholders
  • Track record of driving alignment across differing viewpoints and preferences
  • Proven ability to translate high-level vision into detailed specifications
  • Portfolio demonstrating range in visual exploration and systematic thinking

What we would like to see: 

  • Ability to prototype your ideas in code
  • Experience evolving design systems at scale
  • Background in fintech or consumer product design
  • Experience building design tooling and automation
  • Public speaking or writing about design systems

Benefits at Credit Karma includes:

  • Medical and Dental Coverage
  • Retirement Plan
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Wellness perks
  • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick, Baby Bonding, Cultural Observance, & More)
  • Education Perks
  • Paid Gift Week in December

Pay Transparency Notice:

Credit Karma’s mission of championing financial progress for all starts from within. That’s why we implemented role-based compensation, which ensures people who are in the same role receive the same pay with variations for geographic location only. It’s all part of a more comprehensive DEI strategy that helps level the playing field. The base salary range for this role is $330,000 - $357,939, plus equity and benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Credit Karma is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We welcome all candidates without regard to race, color, religion, age, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, veteran or military status, disability (physical or mental), genetic information or other protected characteristic. We prohibit discrimination of any kind and operate in compliance with applicable fair chance laws. 

Credit Karma is also  committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment because it is the right thing to do. We believe that such an environment advances long-term professional growth, creates a robust business, and supports our mission of championing financial progress for everyone. We offer generous benefits and perks with a single eye to nourishing an inclusive environment that recognizes the contributions of all and fosters diversity by supporting our internal Employee Resource Groups. We’ve worked hard to build an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and the opportunity for professional growth. As part of the Credit Karma team, your voice will be heard, your contributions will matter, and your unique background and experiences will be celebrated.

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Credit Karma is strongly committed to protecting personal data. Please take a look below to review our privacy policies:

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The Company
Oakland, CA
1,320 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

Credit Karma is focused on championing financial progress for over 110 million members in the U.S., Canada and U.K. While we're best known for pioneering free credit scores, our members turn to us for resources as they work toward their financial goals. This includes tools for credit and identity monitoring, credit card recommendations, shopping for loans (car, home and personal), and growing their savings* -- all for free. We’ve grown significantly through the years, adding more than 70 million members in the last five alone. We currently have more than 1,300 employees spread across offices in Oakland, Charlotte, Los Angeles, and London.

Disrupting the financial industry is not an easy task. That’s why we know it’s one worth doing. Our core values of helpfulness, ownership, progress and empathy guide our work and our relationships.

Championing financial progress for everyone is a big mission that requires passionate people working together to make a difference in the world. If you’re up for the task, we’d love to have you on our team. Check out our open positions: https://www.creditkarma.com/careers.

*Banking services provided by MVB Bank, Inc., Member FDIC

Why Work With Us

We are a place to inspire, connect and grow. We are a diverse community of passionate people using innovation and technology to improve the lives of our members. We value our people and create ongoing opportunities for both personal and professional growth and connection. Doing good and making an impact is at the center of everything we do.

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