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About the role
At Tilt, we see a side of people that traditional lenders miss. Our mobile-first products and machine learning-powered credit models look beyond credit scores, using over 250 real-time financial signals to recognize real potential. With millions of customers worldwide, we're not just changing how people access financial products — we're creating a new credit system that backs the working, whatever
Tilt is looking for a Head of Product Design to lead an existing team of 6 designers and 1 researcher embedded across pods building Cash Advance, Credit Card, Thrive, and other everyday money products. You'll report directly to the Head of Product and own the craft, quality, and user and business impact of design across everything our users touch.
The foundations are in place with a recent rebrand and evolved design system. The goal is to build a design practice that consistently shapes what the company builds, not just how it looks, and is known across the enterprise.
What you'll do
- Lead the design function by setting the vision, standards, and strategy for product design in alignment with strategic objectives.
- Manage, mentor, and develop a team of 6 product designers and 1 researcher, including owning hiring as the team scales.
- Push design into problem definition and roadmap-setting by partnering with Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional leadership.
- Act as a vocal, evidence-based advocate for the people who use Tilt products, bringing research and influence into decisions across credit, growth, and engineering.
- Build Tilt's research practice into a durable capability that gets real signal on real users.
- Steward the Tilt Design System to ensure a growing multi-product surface stays coherent.
- Identify where AI genuinely improves design work and turn it into practice and automation efforts.
- Work closely with Marketing's Creative team to ensure product experience and brand expression reinforce each other.
- Set ambitious timelines and operate with urgency to learn from products in customers’ hands.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years designing and shipping consumer-facing mobile products, ideally in fintech or complex domains.
- 5+ years managing designers with a track record of building teams and developing people.
- Experience operating at the leadership table, shaping roadmap and strategy alongside Product and Engineering peers.
- A portfolio demonstrating craft and outcome, showing user problems, decisions made, and business impact.
- Ability to use research and data to sharpen design judgment and gain signal in ambiguous environments.
- Excellent communication skills at the executive level, capable of making design arguments without jargon.
- Fluency in modern tooling, specifically Figma, and curiosity about AI in design workflows.
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