Mercury · banking for startups
Senior Product Designer
About this role
We're hiring a senior product designer to join our 14-person design team, working on the core Mercury Banking dashboard. You'll own a major surface area end-to-end — from research to handoff to launch — and partner closely with engineering and product.
This is a high-autonomy role for someone with 6+ years of product design experience at startup speed. You'll be the only designer on your sub-team for the first 6 – 12 months.
What you'll do
- Own design for one of Mercury's core product areas (transactions, treasury, or business credit)
- Research with real customers — interviews, usability tests, in-app surveys
- Ship from low-fidelity wireframes to production-ready specs
- Maintain and extend our design system (Hub, built on Linear's principles)
- Mentor 1 – 2 mid-level designers as the team grows
You probably have
- 6+ years of product design experience at a fast-moving startup or product company
- A portfolio that shows shipped work, not just visual exploration
- Strong fluency in Figma, including auto-layout and variant systems
- Comfort working closely with engineers (you can read TypeScript without dying)
- Bonus: experience in fintech / regulated industries
Compensation & benefits
- Salary: $180,000 – $240,000 USD, based on level and location
- Equity: meaningful, with 4-year vesting and a 10-year exercise window
- Health: 100% employer-paid premiums for you + dependents (US)
- Time off: unlimited PTO with a minimum of 20 days enforced
- Office stipend: $2,000 to set up your home office
- Learning: $1,500/yr education stipend
- Retreats: two team offsites per year
Hiring process
Intro call · 30 min
With our head of design. Fit, expectations, your portfolio.
Portfolio deep-dive · 90 min
Two projects, 30 min each, plus Q&A. Live, with 3 of our designers.
Design exercise · take-home
Paid, 4 – 6 hours over a week. Real problem we've worked on. You keep the IP.
Onsite (remote) · 4 hours
Meet 4 – 5 people across design, eng, product. References + offer within 48h.
About Mercury
Mercury builds banking and financial tools for startups. We have 240 people, no offices (fully remote), and have been profitable since 2022. We're series-C, with 18 months of runway, and our customers are mostly other startups.
At a glance
- TypeFull-time
- Salary$180 – 240k
- LocationRemote
- SenioritySenior+
- Team14 designers
- Posted3 days ago
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Applications close June 15, 2026
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