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Collective is a fintech platform empowering self-employed professionals and solopreneurs with integrated business services—incorporation, accounting, bookkeeping, tax services, and community access. The company is backed by General Catalyst, Sound Ventures, QED Investors, Google's Gradient Ventures, and others.
You will join as a full-stack individual contributor Lead Product Designer owning the Accounting & Payroll product area, the most complex and highest-stakes part of the platform. You'll partner directly with a Product Lead and Engineering team to transform messy financial workflows into clear, trustworthy, and fast experiences.
Key responsibilities:
- Deeply understand customer needs, business objectives, and industry context to imagine and deliver paradigm-changing experiences
- Establish and maintain a high bar for visual polish and intuitive interaction patterns
- Clearly define customer and business problems; explore broad-to-narrow solution spaces with thoughtful design
- Ideate, design, launch, and improve products advancing Collective's mission
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, designers, operations, sales, and marketing to ship innovative, well-crafted experiences at scale
- Balance execution velocity with quality, making informed tradeoffs between design choices and available resources
- Contribute to building a robust and refined design system
- Help shape how the design team grows and evolves
You'll own work end-to-end and ship daily to solopreneurs who reclaim their time as a result.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Designer
- Demonstrated impact on product strategy and customer experience in previous roles, preferably in Fintech or Consumer Tech
- Outstanding UX capabilities and strong visual design competency, including visual design, UI/UX, copywriting, and systems design
- High bar for visual polish and intuitive, simple design patterns
- Passion for turning complex problems into simple, engaging solutions
- Deep understanding of the end-to-end design process—from identifying customer needs and pain points to delivering exceptional experiences
- Ability to apply consumer insights and metrics to inform design decisions and influence the product roadmap
- Strong systems thinking with ability to connect dots across the entire customer journey
