Credit Karma
Senior Staff Product Designer, Design Systems
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.
Privacy Policies:
Credit Karma is strongly committed to protecting personal data. Please take a look below to review our privacy policies:
- GDPR Privacy Policy
- U.S. Job Applicant Privacy Notice
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Credit Karma Oakland, California, USA Office
Credit Karma Oakland is located in the heart of downtown, with a ton of great restaurants, shops and above a subway and bus stop.
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