About Sezzle:
With a mission to financially empower the next generation, Sezzle is revolutionizing the shopping experience beyond payments, blending cutting-edge tech with seamless, interest-free installment plans that make shopping smarter and more accessible. We’re not just transforming payments; we’re redefining how people discover, interact with, and purchase the things they love while driving real impact on merchant sales through increased conversions and higher order values. As we continue to shape the future of fintech and retail, we’re building an innovative, dynamic team passionate about creating more than just a transaction but a truly unique shopping journey. If you’re excited about pushing boundaries in tech and delivering a game-changing experience for consumers and merchants alike, come join us at Sezzle and help create the future of shopping!
About the Role:
We are seeking a talented and motivated Product Designer who is best in class with a high IQ plus a high EQ. This role presents an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing team, with abundant prospects for career advancement.
In this role, you'll shape the future of Sezzle’s user experience across web and mobile platforms. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to design intuitive interfaces and features that delight users and drive engagement.
Compensation
For this Product Designer role the compensation range is $2,500 - $3,750 USD gross per month as a contractor. This range is designed to accommodate early-career professionals and reflects the foundational skills and potential for growth within the role.
What You'll Do:
- Collaborate with Product Managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to design user-centric features for Sezzle's platforms.
- Create wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, and interaction flows that are both functional and beautiful.
- Conduct user research and testing to validate design decisions and improve product usability.
- Develop design systems and maintain consistency across multiple touchpoints.
- Explore opportunities to incorporate illustration, animation, and interactive design into user interfaces to enhance engagement.
- Stay up-to-date on design trends, emerging technologies, and competitor products to inspire innovative solutions.
- Define and evolve the design system, create and maintain reusable UI components in Figma, and develop documentation to ensure consistency and adoption across teams and platforms.
What We Look For:
- Bachelor’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Graphic Design or a related field.
- Fluent in written and spoken English.
- Experience: 3+ years of experience in product design for web and mobile platforms.
- Skills: Strong proficiency in Figma for designing and prototyping user interfaces and experience conducting user testing sessions to gather actionable insights and improve product design.
- Creativity: A portfolio demonstrating excellent UI/UX design skills and creative problem-solving.
- User Focus: A passion for crafting delightful user experiences with an emphasis on accessibility and inclusivity.
- Design System Development: Expertise in building scalable design systems, including typography, colors, grids, and reusable components.
- Component Management: Skilled in creating and maintaining UI components in Figma, with clear documentation for team adoption.
- Technical Proficiency: Proficient in Figma, with bonus familiarity in HTML, CSS, or React.
- Adaptability: Ability to balance multiple design projects with care, ensuring high-quality outcomes even under tight timelines.
- Collaboration: Strong communication and teamwork skills with the ability to collaborate across diverse teams
Bonus Points For:
- Proficiency in illustration to create visuals that align with Sezzle's brand identity.
- Knowledge of animation tools (e.g., After Effects, Lottie) to create micro-interactions and animated elements.
- Experience designing interactive components to elevate user engagement.
About You:
- You have relentlessly high standards - many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
- You’re not bound by convention - your success—and much of the fun—lies in developing new ways to do things
- You need action - speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk-taking.
- You earn trust - you listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
- You have backbone; disagree, then commit - you can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.
- You deliver results - you focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, you rise to the occasion and never settle.
What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome:
At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators. We believe in surrounding ourselves with only the best and the brightest individuals. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire. Sezzle recognizes and values the importance of diversity and inclusion in enriching the employment experience of its employees and in supporting our mission.
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