Senior Brand Designer - Expressive UI

In 1954, architect Eero Saarinen designed a radically modern bank branch for Irwin Union in Columbus, Indiana. With glass walls, no private offices, and a floor plan that invited openness, it embodied a new kind of transparency in finance. The building was surrounded by trees, furnished by Herman Miller, and featured rustic brick flooring. Today, that space is a conference center, and that spirit of design-forward thinking in banking feels all but extinct.

Mercury believes that level of care and craft in design has been lost in modern finance and we’re building a brand that brings it back. We're a financial technology company building products that feel extraordinary to use. We help people and businesses accomplish more with their money by turning banking* from a frustration into a catalyst for their ambitions.

We’re looking for a designer to help shape how Mercury shows up visually, emotionally, and creatively across our product and website. Someone who thrives in a highly collaborative environment where the best ideas drive progress, not the most powerful voices in the room. 

*Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC.

In this role, you’ll:

• Shape visual design, motion, and evolution of our emerging interfaces in product and web, ensuring our brand comes to life through the user experience.
• Lead with an AI-first design and development mindset.
• Shape core aspects of the Mercury UI.
• Elevate brand expression through innovative and opinionated visual design and visual asset libraries, ensuring unique brand moments at the right touchpoints for our users.
• Help build our design system by creating comprehensive frameworks, documentation, and libraries that other designers can follow to bring their work to life visually.
• Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product and executive teams.
• Give and solicit feedback from other designers to continually raise our bar for quality.
• Champion craft and clarity in every deliverable from the initial sketch to final production files.
• Effectively balance multiple projects, from concepting through to final execution, managing timelines with clarity and calm.
• Collaborate proactively and communicate effectively in an environment that values diverse perspectives, creativity, and innovation.

What you’ll bring:

• 7–10 years of experience in brand design, art direction, or visual communication, ideally with a mix of in-house and agency experience.
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates conceptual range, systems thinking, and refined visual execution across digital interfaces.
• Experience building and evolving apps.
• A passion for turning complex problems into simple but expressive UI.
• Outstanding systems thinking, visual design, and product thinking.
• Experience applying research, usability tests, and metrics to inform design decisions.
• Comfort with an iterative design process that includes accepting and acting on feedback.
• Strong analytical, technical, and strategic experience.
• Experience defining motion libraries for UI.
• Experience building data visualization libraries consumed by product teams.
• Experience collaborating across disciplines to lead or support a new idea or product to launch.
• Experience conducting and guiding user research and cross-functional collaboration.
• Proven skills in presenting work, workshopping concepts, and evangelizing new ideas.
• Experience with front-end engineering constraints and direct experience partnering with engineers.
• 6+ years of experience on creative teams and in technical environments.
• 8+ years of software design, visual design, interaction design, UX design, and prototyping experience.

Include a deck or portfolio of your best work with your application. If a password is required, be sure to add it in your application or on your resume.

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits. Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:

• US employees (any location): $151,000 - $188,700 USD
• Canadian employees (any location): 142,700 -  178,300 CAD 

Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.

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