# Product Designer

**Company:** [Cardless](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cardless)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $175k – $275k/yr
**Skills:** Product Design, Visual Design, Prototyping, Design Systems, User Flows, Developer Experience, Technical Writing, Figma, Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, AI
**Posted:** 2026-08-31

> Design cohesive financial-product experiences across customer-facing interfaces, developer tools, operational workflows, and internal systems. The role requires strong product reasoning, visual craft, clear communication, technical curiosity, and comfort using AI to prototype and build.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design embeddable components and flows for web and mobile financial products, from individual experiences such as account opening, disputes, and payments through end-to-end products.
- Turn customer interactions into a product by designing documentation, communications, onboarding, support tooling, and ongoing collaboration experiences.
- Partner with Sales on prototypes, demos, website experiences, decks, and other storytelling materials.
- Partner with Engineering to create a strong developer experience through integration guides, reference examples, and implementation playbooks.
- Embed with Support, Compliance, Fraud, Disputes, or Operations to understand workflows and design customer touchpoints, communications, processes, internal tools, and complete systems.
- Use AI to prototype, build, and iterate on products, workflows, and systems.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Compliance, and operational teams from problem definition through implementation.

## Requirements
- Strong product reasoning, including judgment about when to provide flexibility and when to establish clear product direction.
- Clear writing and storytelling skills, with the ability to explain complex ideas simply.
- Ability to learn complex domains quickly and move between different modes of work.
- Technical curiosity and attention to developer experience, including language and concepts.
- Exceptional visual design craft.
- Demonstrated work such as shipped products, prototypes, system diagrams, documentation, workflows, or design files.
- Interest in using AI to develop new design workflows and playbooks.
- Experience with tools such as Cursor, Codex, or Claude Code.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual starting salary: **$175,000–$275,000**, plus equity and benefits.
- Meaningful startup equity.
- 100% primary health, vision, and dental coverage; 75% dependent coverage.
- Catered lunches.
- $250/month commuter benefit.
- Parental leave.
- Team-building events and happy hours.
- Flexible PTO with a minimum of 15 days off per year.
- Apple equipment.
- 401(k) plan.
- In-office five days per week.

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