Senior Design Manager – Business Banking, Investments

Mercury

. Lead design for Mercury’s Business Banking and Investments teams across payments, accounts, and treasury .

Posted 10/27/2026full-timeRemote • United States, CanadaSenior💰 $228,700 - $285,900 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong visual and interaction design skills, with a focus on simplifying complex product experiences and managing design teams to elevate their work quality. Proven ability to collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to set and deliver on product vision while tracking outcomes.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Visual Design CraftInteraction DesignDesign Team ManagementPrototyping SkillsProduct Vision Setting

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Hard Skills

TypographyCompositionInformation ArchitectureWorkflow SimplificationSketchingPrototypingDesign CritiqueDecision MakingProduct Constraints ManagementDesign Quality Improvement

Soft Skills

Clear DirectionStakeholder CollaborationProblem IdentificationAdaptabilityBuilding Conviction

Industry Keywords

Business BankingInvestmentsCustomer OutcomesDesign LeadershipProduct Direction

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead design for Mercury’s Business Banking and Investments teams across payments, accounts, and treasury
Own the visual and interaction quality of shipped experiences, including workflows, typography, composition, spacing, and motion
Provide thoughtful critique, clear direction, and review implemented experiences
Partner with Product and Engineering to shape ambitious product direction
Challenge inherited assumptions and turn strong ideas into simpler, more useful products
Identify opportunities, create clarity, make decisions, bring stakeholders together, and remove obstacles
Track customer and business outcomes after handoff and launch, acting when results fall short
Sketch, prototype, and work through difficult flows alongside designers
Manage scope, sequencing, tradeoffs, and team attention to deliver excellent work on time
Develop designers’ taste, confidence, judgment, and ability to deliver
Set performance expectations, address gaps, explain the work’s importance, and build shared vision
Celebrate designers’ contributions and increase their visibility across Mercury Design

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong visual and interaction design craft
Portfolio demonstrating thoughtful typography, composition, hierarchy, and interaction design in shipped products
Ability to simplify complex product experiences, workflows, information architecture, and product constraints
Experience managing designers and raising the quality of their work through coaching, feedback, and clear expectations
Experience setting product vision and helping a team deliver it
Comfortable sketching, prototyping, and working through detailed design problems
Strong partnerships with Product and Engineering
Ability to shape priorities, work through competing constraints, and build alignment around design decisions
Ability to identify problems and opportunities, make decisions with incomplete information, and adapt when priorities shift
Ability to build conviction without relying on authority
Examples of personal design craft and work produced under leadership

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity (stock options/RSUs)
Benefits
Equal Employment Opportunity employer
Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs