Principal Product Designer - Design Systems

We’re seeking a Principle Product Designer – Design System with a knack for systems thinking and solving complex problems. You’ll partner with product and engineering on a cross-disciplinary team as we leverage a lean and agile product development process to create and maintain our products. You will be part of a design team that collaborates, practices skills and has fun together. Your main responsibility with be to lead the creation and maintenance of our ever-evolving design system.

Our Principal Product Designer will be planning, cleaning, and re-structuring our Figma libraries so they’re complete and easy to use for designers and collaborating with Product Designers to share library updates, provide/receive feedback, share best practices, and maintain a cohesive experience in the product. We invite you to help us reimagine the future of banking and home lending!

Responsibilities:

• Guide the design direction and future vision of experiences for digital products used by consumers and financial institutions.
• Serve as thought leader, coach, and internal consultant driving design quality, consistency, and innovation across multiple product portfolios.
• Work across multi-disciplinary teams to adopt user-focused mindsets and practices, envision the future, and plan incremental and iterative delivery.
• Plan the UX approach, lead design efforts, and drive UX outcomes for nCino’s most strategic initiatives.
• Lead ideation and strategy sessions with leadership, managers and product stakeholders and then rapidly envision and iterate designs based on the input and feedback.
• Design and deliver UX artifacts, including journey maps, user flows, prototypes, wireframes, high fidelity mockups, and design specifications.
• Lead and/or participate in user research to inform design decisions, UX strategies, and measurement.
• Contribute to the evolution of design team operations, design systems, and user research practices.
• Mentor other designers and share knowledge with colleagues about design thinking frameworks, data-driven design decisions, and user-centered design practices.

Qualifications:

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Experience Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Graphic Design, Computer Science or equivalent.
• 8+ years of professional UX experience design for responsive web sites and mobile apps;
• Or combination experience, education & superior performance
• A strong portfolio showcasing your UX design and strategy work
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
• Professional experience in an Agile design environment
• Experience with design tools such as Figma or Sketch

Desired:

• MS/MA degree in a related field
• Knowledge of and excitement for fintech, the financial industry, or personal and business banking
• Knowledge of the Salesforce platform
• Experience with research tools such as Maze, UserTesting, or similar
• Willing to relocate to Lehi, UT