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Tilt is seeking a Head of Product Design to lead and elevate the design function across the organization. You will manage a team of 6 product designers and 1 researcher embedded across product pods building Cash Advance, Credit Card, Thrive, and other consumer financial products. Reporting directly to the Head of Product, you will own the craft, quality, and user and business impact of design across all customer-facing surfaces.
Key responsibilities include:
- Setting vision, standards, and strategy for product design aligned with Tilt's strategic objectives, establishing and maintaining high craft standards across all shipped surfaces
- Managing, mentoring, and developing the design team while owning hiring as the team scales; building career paths, delivering regular feedback, and creating rituals that strengthen designers and retain top performers
- Moving design upstream into problem definition and roadmap-setting through partnership with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional leadership
- Serving as the vocal, evidence-based advocate for users across the enterprise, bringing research insights and user perspective into decisions across credit, growth, engineering, and other functions
- Building Tilt's research practice into a durable capability that generates real signal from real users
- Stewarding the Tilt Design System as a product in its own right to maintain coherence across a growing multi-product surface
- Developing informed perspectives on where AI genuinely improves design work and turning those insights into practice
- Partnering closely with the Marketing Creative team to ensure product experience and brand expression reinforce each other
- Operating with urgency while knowing when to afford space for learning; comfortable with ambiguity and shipping to learn
Tilt is a fintech company using machine learning-powered credit models and over 250 real-time financial signals to recognize potential beyond traditional credit scores. The company serves millions of customers worldwide and is building a new credit system for working people.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years designing and shipping consumer-facing mobile products, ideally in fintech or similarly complex domains
- 5+ years managing designers with a track record of building teams, raising craft standards, and developing people
- Proven experience operating at the leadership table, shaping roadmap and strategy alongside Product and Engineering peers
- Portfolio demonstrating both craft and business outcomes; ability to articulate user problems, design decisions, and business impact
- Evidence-driven approach to design with comfort operating in ambiguity; ability to use research and data to sharpen judgment rather than substitute for it
- Clear communication skills at executive level; ability to make design arguments without design jargon
- Deep proficiency in Figma and genuine curiosity about AI in design workflows
