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
  
  

What You’ll Get

Our team members fuel our strategy, innovation and growth, so we ensure the health and well-being of not just you, but your family, too! We go above and beyond to give you the support you need on an individual level and offer all sorts of ways to help you live your best life. We are proud to offer eligible team members perks and health benefits that will help you have peace of mind. Simply put: We’ve got your back. Check out our full list of Benefits and Perks.

About Us

Headquartered in Detroit, Rocket Loans was established to create the most simple, rocket fast personal loan process. We assembled a top-notch team of individuals combining new, passionate team members with some of the best veterans from Rocket Mortgage to create the most user-friendly lending platform in the world. We have given it our best to create an experience that is best-of-breed in the personal loan industry and commit even more to continuously improving it. At Rocket Loans, you’ll build a career that helps you achieve your professional goals while helping clients get the loans they need to reach their financial goals. We’re looking for innovators and those unafraid to disrupt the status -quo. With an inclusive culture and opportunities to make a positive impact, we’re here to help you foster your career growth.

This job description is an outline of the primary responsibilities of this position and may be modified at the discretion of the company at any time. Decisions related to employment are not based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. The company provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodations in completing the application and/or participating in the application process should contact a member of the Human Resources team, at Careers@myrocketcareer.com.

Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Colorado, New York City, New Jersey, Jersey City, California, D.C and Washington Candidates only: the compensation for this position is $151,500.00-$341,000.00. The position may also be eligible for an annual bonus, incentives, and other employment-related benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401K retirement plan, and paid-time off. More information regarding these benefits and others can be found here. The information regarding compensation and other benefits included in this paragraph is only an estimate and is subject to revision from time to time as the Company, in its sole and exclusive discretion, deems appropriate. The Company may determine during its review of the proposed compensation and benefits provided for this position, that the compensation and benefits for such position should be reduced. In no event will the Company reduce the compensation for the position to a level below the applicable jurisdictional minimum wage rate for the position.