Splash Financial is seeking a Contract Senior Product Designer (1099) to help us move fast on key product experiences across our personal loan and HELOC products. You'll be a hands-on design contributor — someone who can independently own design workstreams, partner closely with Product and Engineering, and deliver high-quality work with minimal ramp-up time.
You're highly customer-focused, with a passion for elegant, simple solutions. You think iteratively, know how to read data and customer feedback to pressure-test your design assumptions, and you've navigated the constraints of regulated financial products before. You're equally comfortable producing high-fidelity Figma work and thinking strategically about how UX decisions connect to business outcomes.
- Duration: 6 months, with the possibility of extension based on fit and business need.
- Rate: $80 – $100 per hour, commensurate with experience and location.
- Own design for assigned product workstreams: Take features from problem framing through high-fidelity Figma deliverables; define information architecture, user flows, and interaction patterns; work collaboratively with Product and Engineering across the full product development lifecycle.
- Conduct and synthesize user research to inform your work: Run or facilitate usability sessions and customer interviews; synthesize behavioral data, NPS feedback, and qualitative signals to validate design decisions and identify friction points.
- Build on and contribute to our design system: Work within established component libraries; identify gaps and contribute new patterns that are consistent, scalable, and accessible. Design for trust, clarity, and compliance in a regulated context.
- Iterate rapidly based on stakeholder and data feedback: Move quickly from concept to prototype; run low-fidelity and high-fidelity reviews with Product, Engineering, and leadership.
- Design AI-powered and AI-assisted product experiences; Contribute to experiences that incorporate AI features (e.g., personalized recommendations, intelligent form assistance, conversational flows); design clearly around AI outputs, uncertainty, and error states to maintain user trust.
- Use AI tools to accelerate your own design workflow: Leverage AI-assisted design tools (e.g., Figma Make) to speed up exploration, generate initial concepts, and prototype faster.
- 6–8+ years of product design experience, with a strong portfolio demonstrating UX and UI work across web and mobile.
- Expert Figma skills, including component-driven design, prototyping, and working within or contributing to design systems.
- Demonstrated experience with UX design process: discovery, problem framing, information architecture, user flows, wireframing, and high-fidelity production.
- Ability to conduct and synthesize lightweight user research (usability testing, interviews, survey analysis) to inform and validate design decisions.
- Experience designing AI-powered product features or working with ML/AI outputs in a product design context, including designing for edge cases, error states, and user trust.
- Active use of AI-assisted design tools to accelerate workflow (Figma AI, generative design exploration, or similar); genuine curiosity about how AI will change design practice.
- Experience in FinTech, consumer lending, or financial services.
- Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design practices.
- Experience designing across both web and native mobile (iOS/Android).
- Prior contractor or freelance experience; proven ability to onboard quickly, self-manage, and deliver.