Senior Illustrator & Animator, Design System
Job Opportunity at Affirm
Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. We offer financing to more customers than traditional credit and because of our values, we never charge hidden fees. We also enable our merchants with Affirm is dedicated to changing the way consumer finance works, and we’re just getting started.
Product Designer & Illustrator Role
We're looking for a Product Designer & Illustrator to build new experiences across our different platforms from consumer to enterprise. You have a breadth of designing and shipping product experience leveraging your superpower of creating delightfully simple experiences to improve a user’s relationship with the feature they are using. You know visuals and the experiences from pixels to words, and are relentless about improving the products people love to use. This all results in a win-win-win for our users, merchants and Affirm. You partner well with cross-functional teams to ensure cohesion across the technology and enjoy driving change for the design team and the products we build.
What You'll Do
- Execute designs across Affirm product ecosystem
- Work through complex and ambiguous situations to clarity and focus
- Support with prioritization of short term to long term results-oriented work that drives impact
- Partner closely with product management, engineering, research, content to execute delightful experiences
- Foster an inclusive environment
- Leverage operational rigor for design through planning, principles, and frameworks to drive alignment.
What We Look For
- 3+ years experience in product or user experience design focused roles from mobile to desktop
- Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
- Thoughtful approach to the craft of design informed by user needs
- Ability to turn ambiguous direction into clear conceptual solutions solving for a user need and the business with limited direction
- Knows how to hold a bar for executional craft with balancing shipping to learn
- Self-sufficient and uses leadership and peers to seek out feedback and ideas
- Ability to scope and plan projects and accountable for artifacts and deliverables
- Experience with working with and contributing to a design system
- Passionate about better ways to improve personal finance through technology
- A demonstrated portfolio thinking strategically across multiple product and platform experiences and shipping successful in-app/web experiences in a fast-paced environment with impact and outcomes. (Required)
Pay Grade - L
Equity Grade - 8
Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.
Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)
USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $160,000 - $210,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $142,000 - $192,000
Remote Work
#LI-Remote
Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.
Competitive Benefits
We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
- Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
- Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
- ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.
[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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