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### We're a team of 19 Product, Brand, and Content Designers.

### We work from around the world and come together a couple of times a year to be together.

We work and live in San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, Toronto. D.C., Copenhagen, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, and more. As a team, we've visited San Francisco, Outer Banks, and New York City.

### We're reimagining financial technology.

Currently we have 40,000+ companies we're building for such as: [Linear](http://linear.app/), [Maven](https://maven.com/), [Trust&Will](https://trustandwill.com/), [Shef](https://shef.com/), [Golden](https://golden.com/), [Mighty](https://www.mightyapp.com/), [Lunchclub](https://lunchclub.com/), [Scratchpad](https://scratchpad.com/), [Stir](https://www.usestir.com/), and more.

### We make time to stay in touch.

We have a couple of regular Zoom sessions each week that bring the whole group together to workshop designs, collect feedback, share inspiration, or just drink coffee and hang out.

Check out our website at [mercury.design](https://mercury.design).

How does your team stay connected when working remotely?

In 1954, in Columbus, Indiana, Eero Saarinen designed a branch office with glass walls, no offices, and a completely open floor plan. It was surrounded by trees; the furniture was made by Herman Miller; the lobby flooring was thick, rustic brick. It was built with transparency and community at its core.

Since 1954, a lot of things have happened—Saarinen’s branch is now a conference center, people increasingly live on the internet, and it’s hard to think of a single financial institution that still applies design thinking to their product.

We believe that in 2022 this revolves around thoughtful design, and we’re looking to add  product designers of all levels to our team to help.

You’ll:

* Take ownership of large portions of a complex product

* Work across the entire design stack, including: speccing projects; designing workflows, detailed interactions, and high-fidelity visuals; and ensuring quality implementation

* Find elegant solutions to user problems, and think critically from the user perspective

* Simplify and cull design elements with a ruthless eye

* Craft designs from first principles (referencing existing solutions is often a poor idea)

* Imbue mundane tasks and flows with a feeling of wonder

* Prototype multiple visual and UX concepts and then narrow them to the right solution

* Explain and debate the reasoning behind your product decisions

* Work directly with engineers, the business team, and the design team.

You should:

* Have the ability to design whole systems, not just interface elements or static pages

* Have experience and interest in the entire design stack, including UI/UX, visual design, and interaction design

* Have experience building for a variety of form factors, including mobile

* Understand when no design is the best design

* Have a strong personal design aesthetic and also understand the Mercury aesthetic

* Want to create elegant, calm designs that predict and exceed users’ expectations

* Feel comfortable anticipating and designing for edge cases

* Understand the balance between perfect design and getting to market

* Exhibit kindness and humility in everyday interactions

Product Designers (All Levels)

Mercury is built on the belief that thoughtful design can actually make life easier for busy founders. We aim to bring simplicity and humanity to an industry that’s known for being anything but. Our designers craft products that create impact in their efficiency, and add practical magic to the mundane.

We’ve got a great team of senior designers already in place, we’ve built a foundation that customers enjoy using, and we believe we can push ourselves even further by adding an experienced manager. We’re looking for a person who is excited to have a significant impact on Mercury’s product experience and the way the Mercury design team operates. The Design Manager will actively shape and reshape team processes, help designers see the bigger picture of the product and business through crits and mentorship, coach the team on product thinking and cross-team communication, and lead by example.

In this role, you’ll:

* Understand our product, business, brand, and processes inside and out

* Once you know how it all works, you’ll help us come up with ways to improve

* Know your team and help them grow

* Use 1:1s to provide coaching and mentorship, come up with structures to help prioritize work, and and make sure nobody feels burnt out

* Make your team feel like a Team

* Plan team trips, organize working sessions, share inspo, and encourage collaborative projects that make our remote, distributed group feel less remote and distributed

* Document and evangelize what works (design systems, team meetings, internal processes), and ditch what doesn’t

* Create an environment where people feel comfortable pushing back on work that doesn’t hit the mark, and model radical candor with feedback that’s provocative rather than prescriptive

* Help us hire more great people

There are a lot of paths that could lead you to a role like this, so we encourage you to apply even if you’re not sure. Some relevant skills that can help:

* You’ve led a creative team of any size. Extra points if you’ve helped grow a team from medium to large

* You’re good at wrangling ambiguity and finding ways to improve the world around you, even when nobody’s told you to do so

* You can tell when you’ve hit on the right amount of process/structure without it feeling stifling or unnecessary

* You keep up on design trends and like to stay in practice, even if it’s been a while since you were an IC

* You can tell when something’s good and articulate clearly (and kindly) when it’s not

* You’re adept at asking questions that aren’t just answers or opinions in disguise

Mercury Design

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Introduce us to your team

We're a team of 19 Product, Brand, and Content Designers.

What does your workplace look like?

We work from around the world and come together a couple of times a year to be together.

What is your team mission?

We're reimagining financial technology.

How does your team stay connected when working remotely?

We make time to stay in touch.

Mercury Design﻿

Open roles

Introduce us to your team

We're a team of 19 Product, Brand, and Content Designers.

What does your workplace look like?

We work from around the world and come together a couple of times a year to be together.

What is your team mission?

We're reimagining financial technology.

How does your team stay connected when working remotely?

We make time to stay in touch.

Mercury Design