Overview

Splitwise is expanding our product design team, and looking for someone who can craft delightful experiences. As a product designer, you’ll be responsible for working with our product team to create the best possible Splitwise user experience and keeping our apps unified with a consistent design language. You’ll work closely with engineers, product managers, and fellow designers to build exciting new features, and to refine and improve the existing Splitwise apps. Keeping track of money with other people can be confusing and stressful, so Splitwise emphasizes design that is clear and easy to understand. We also love to delight our users with little surprises, whether it’s a burst of confetti after you pay back a friend or a meowing kitten hidden on our settings page. We strive to keep Splitwise a modern, accessible, and reliable utility for all people, from the early adopters to the luddites we all know and love. The improvements that you make to Splitwise’s UI and UX will be felt by millions of people around the world. We’re a small team and we’re excited to have you join us!

What you’ll actually do at Splitwise:

Collaborate directly with leadership and peers across engineering, product, and design to build new features and workflows to our mobile apps
Iterate to improve your designs based on data and user testing, as well as feedback from both users and your teammates
Communicate your design ideas, backing them up with best practices, industry standards and research
Uphold and evolve the visual language of Splitwise across various platforms
Be involved in the design of new features from the earliest planning stages to the final release
Keep Splitwise on the cutting edge of design patterns on iOS, Android, and web

Things about you:

You enjoy working in a team, and treat others with empathy and respect
You’re passionate about designing modern user-interfaces, and eager to participate at all phases of the design process
You communicate well about design, both in person and in writing
You communicate well through design, at the intersection of product goals and user needs
You offer and receive feedback with curiosity and thoughtfulness
You have mobile app design experience, and are well-versed in the unique design languages of iOS and Android
You care about usability and accessibility, and your designs aim to be as clear and understandable as possible for all audiences
You know how to use Figma to create high-fidelity mockups and communicate your ideas
You have a 4-year Bachelor’s degree in fine arts, design, HCI, related degree, or equivalent
As an ideal candidate, you also have strong skills/background in 1-2 (but certainly not all) of the following areas:
Front-end (HTML, CSS, Javascript)
Illustration and/or motion graphics
Content design
Graphic design for marketing/advertising
Brand design

Things you’ll learn:

How to make a financial product feel clear, easy, and safe even for users who are afraid of math
How to design for solving awkward social problems
How to use data, feedback and user testing to inform design decisions
How to include consideration for international support and accessibility in your designs
How to communicate your ideas clearly with a variety of peers
A strong understanding of what makes a design “easy” or “hard” to implement from a technical standpoint
How a small, transparent start-up operates

Compensation range:

$139,000-$176,000/year base cash compensation
Depends on experience level and tenure

Benefits:

Competitive base salary
Equity/stock options
Top-tier health care (covered 100% for you, 50% for dependents)
Dental and Vision insurance
4-6 weeks of paid vacation per year
Paid parental leave (12+ weeks)
401k with match
Flexible hours (with meeting hours generally from 10am-5pm ET)
Professional development budget for conferences or other paid resources, in consultation with your manager
Periodic annual retreats and face-to-face visits with colleagues
Support for in-office, co-working, or remote work, each with related benefits to do your best work

Application Guidelines

When applying for this position, please email jobs@splitwise.com from your personal email.

Include your resume. You’re welcome to attach additional files or to include links to a portfolio site, LinkedIn, etc.

In the email body, provide concise answers to the following questions:

What interests you about this role and working for Splitwise?
This position requires existing design experience. Share a brief description of a relevant, impactful project you’ve worked on and something interesting you learned from it.
Splitwise is headquartered in Providence, RI, with “mini-hubs” in New York and LA (where coworkers meet in person ad-hoc). We also support fully remote candidates based in the USA. Which of these arrangements are you interested in?

Splitwise is an equal opportunity employer that cares deeply about diversity in tech, and we strongly encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. We want to build a team at Splitwise that reflects the diversity of customers that we serve, and we hope that team includes you! Join us in our mission to reduce the stress that money places on relationships, and help millions of friends and families around the world.

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