Lead Product Designer - Rocket Loans

As a Lead Product Designer, you will be responsible for shaping the visual and interactive elements of our products across various platforms. You will be responsible for collaborating with multiple partners to design user-centric solutions that address real-world problems and enhance the overall user experience.

About the role

• Lead end-to-end design for products, from ideation and conceptualization to detailed UX/UI design, prototyping, and final production

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product strategy and create intuitive user interfaces

• Facilitate design critiques and workshops to foster a feedback culture and ensure design quality

• Own the product design strategy and collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to ensure seamless execution of design vision

• Work with user researchers to conduct usability testing to inform design decisions and iterate on design solutions based on user feedback and business objectives

• Develop user flows, wireframes, prototypes and high-fidelity designs to effectively communicate design concepts and solutions

• Design and refine visual systems and patterns that can scale across platforms and devices (mobile, web, etc.)

• Create high-fidelity designs and work with developers to ensure a smooth and high-quality implementation of designs

• Stay up to date on design trends, tools, and industry best practices to ensure that our products maintain a competitive edge in terms of usability and visual appeal

• Advocate for user-centric design by conducting empathy exercises, leveraging data and user feedback, and delivering an exceptional product experience

• Contribute to and maintain design systems, ensuring consistency across the company’s product portfolio

• Mentor a team of designers, providing guidance, feedback, and promoting a culture of creativity and collaboration

About you

Minimum Qualifications

• 7 years of experience in product design

• Experience working on consumer-facing products, with a portfolio demonstrating strong design expertise across mobile and web platforms

• Proficiency in industry-standard design tools

• Strong understanding of interaction design, visual hierarchy, and typography

• Ability to translate complex problems into simple, elegant solutions

• Experience conducting and incorporating user research and usability testing into design iterations

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions and advocate for the user experience

• Familiarity with front-end development concepts

• Experience working within or contributing to design systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep systems-thinking expertise to refine, and manage modular design systems, transforming fragmented patterns into coherent, reusable components that support multi-platform experiences

• Ability to facilitate collaborative design strategy sessions such as tear-downs, ideation workshops, and stakeholder-friendly alignment meetings to uncover opportunities, validate assumptions, and translate insights into clear, prioritized product roadmaps

• Independently able to investigate product performance metrics using Amplitude to detect UX/UI pain points, translating quantitative findings into actionable recommendations that shaped design direction and roadmap priorities

• Experience working with data-driven design and A/B testing to optimize user experiences

• Understanding of accessibility standards and inclusive design principles

• Knowledge of motion design or ability to create micro-interactions to enhance user experience

• Knowledge of design thinking methodologies and agile product development processes