# Design Director

**Company:** [Chime](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/chime)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $242k – $335k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Product Design, Visual Design, Interaction Design, Design Systems, User Research, customer insights, Experimentation, Product Strategy, design critique, content design
**Posted:** 2026-08-13

> Leads product design across Spending, Savings, and Investing, setting the visual and interaction quality bar while developing a high-performing design team. Partners with Product, Engineering, Research, Data, Content Design, and Brand leaders to create cohesive consumer financial experiences.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Set the design vision and quality bar across Spending, Savings, and Investing experiences.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of product designers.
- Apply strong visual and interaction design craft to elevate product work while empowering designers to own solutions.
- Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to shape strategy, identify high-impact opportunities, and deliver member experiences.
- Create connected product experiences across features and journeys while balancing immediate needs with long-term design vision.
- Use research, customer insights, data, and experimentation to guide design decisions.
- Champion design excellence through product language, design systems, critique culture, and broader design practice.

## Requirements
- Experience leading and developing high-performing product design teams responsible for complex, consumer-facing digital products.
- Portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual and interaction design craft.
- Track record of creating and delivering design visions across multiple products, journeys, or interconnected experiences.
- Deep product design expertise and judgment across high-level strategy and detailed execution.
- Experience partnering with senior Product and Engineering leaders to influence strategy and deliver customer and business outcomes.
- Experience building design teams through coaching, feedback, critique, and talent development.
- Ability to communicate a clear design point of view and create clarity in complex or ambiguous spaces.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: **$242,000–$335,000**.
- Eligibility for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits.
- Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits.
- Backup child, elder, and pet care and subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees.
- Generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off.
- Annual wellness stipend.
- Up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Family planning reimbursement.
- One percent of time off to support local community organizations.

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