Product Designer, Unsecured Lending

Upstart’s Product Experience team brings together product design, research, and content strategy to shape the future of lending. We focus on high-craft execution, deep customer insight, and measurable business impact, partnering across product areas to build experiences that are clear, trustworthy, and human. Our Unsecured Lending team focuses on building borrower-facing experiences across personal loans and revolving credit products.

This team owns core moments in the borrower journey, including rate selection, origination, and repayment, with a focus on clarity and trust.

As a Product Designer at Upstart, you will support feature-level design work across these experiences, partnering closely with product managers and engineers. You’ll work within established design direction to deliver high-quality, production-ready designs that directly impact millions of borrower interactions.

• Design end-to-end user experiences across borrower-facing flows

• Translate product requirements into wireframes, interactive prototypes,, and high-fidelity visual designs

• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to align on scope, constraints, and implementation details

• Deliver production-ready designs and ensure design intent is preserved through development handoff

• Incorporate user feedback, data insights, and stakeholder input to iterate on designs

• Partner with adjacent teams (e.g., Growth) to ensure seamless experiences across the borrower journey

• 3+ years of product design experience, owning small-to-medium projects end-to-end

• End-to-end design: problem/goal definition, rapid user testing and user research, wireframing and strong iterative instincts, interaction and visual design including strong typography skills, running an articulate and repeatable user-centered design process

• Gets stakeholder buy-in; delivers smooth design handoffs where resolution matches design intent

• Understands business context at a high level and how design impacts it

• Experience with complex multi-step flows with branching outcomes and plentiful edge cases (applications, forms, comparison tools)

• Strong familiarity with contributing to or advancing design systems

• Experience in Fintech, lending, insurance, or other heavily regulated consumer products

Time zone requirements The team operates on the East/West coast time zones.