Staff Product Designer (Contract)
flex • Remote
Posted: August 8, 2026
Job Description
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and visionary Staff Product Designer to serve as Flex's highest-caliber individual design contributor. In this role, you will set the bar for craft and quality across our entire product portfolio - not by managing designers, but by doing the work at a level others aspire to. You will drive design vision and strategy for the most complex, highest-impact initiatives at Flex, shaping how we build for our users and how the design function operates.
Vision and Strategy
- Define and articulate design vision for Flex's most critical and complex product initiatives, ensuring work aligns with business goals and resonates deeply with our users
- Establish a north star for the consumer experience and drive cross-functional alignment around it
- Influence product strategy and roadmap directly through the quality and clarity of your design work and perspective
- Stay close to how the design industry and UX trends are evolving and bring those insights into Flex
Quality and Craft
- Own the design process end-to-end on flagship initiatives, from research and ideation through refinement, prototyping, and final execution
- Hold a high bar for craft across everything you touch, from individual interaction patterns to our design system
- Build detailed prototypes that illuminate the future of the product and help teams make better decisions
- Use AI across the design lifecycle for, rapid exploration, prototyping, and front-end workflows, and model how the team can do the same
Influence and Collaboration
- Partner with design leadership, product, and engineering to shape the direction of complex, cross-cutting product areas
- Collaborate with other designers to ensure alignment and consistency across the consumer experience
- Advocate for design thinking and user-centered principles across the company at every level, up to and including executive leadership
Standards and Mentorship
- Establish and evolve design standards, processes, and patterns that raise the quality floor for the entire organization
- Provide mentorship and craft feedback to designers across the team
- Contribute foundational elements and set the standard for how the design system should evolve
Key Qualifications
- Experience: A demonstrated track record as a senior IC contributor on complex consumer products
- Design Mastery: Deep expertise in UX/UI design with strong experience showcasing shipped work at significant scope and quality
- Strategic Thinking: Ability and demonstrated experience to operate at the product strategy level, shaping direction through design
- Craft: Exceptional execution skills with high attention to detail in interaction design, visual design, and prototyping
- Collaboration: Excellent communication skills; able to work fluidly with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, marketing, and executive leadership
- Tools and Tech: Proficiency in modern design tooling; and fluency with front-end development
- AI Fluency: Comfort using AI tools across the design process for research, exploration, prototyping, and workflow improvement
- Passion: Genuine interest in financial products and improving people's financial lives
Compensation
This is a contract position with an hourly rate of $125–$200 per hour, commensurate with experience and our internal leveling guidelines. Flex takes a market-based approach to pay and utilizes a geographic pay differential based on a cost of labor index; if you are located outside of our Tier 1 (NYC/Bay Area) markets, your rate will be adjusted to align with the market conditions of your specific geographic zone. There is potential for this engagement to convert to a full-time role, in which case compensation would be aligned to the full-time salary range and benefits for the level.
Additional Content
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and visionary Staff Product Designer to serve as Flex's highest-caliber individual design contributor. In this role, you will set the bar for craft and quality across our entire product portfolio - not by managing designers, but by doing the work at a level others aspire to. You will drive design vision and strategy for the most complex, highest-impact initiatives at Flex, shaping how we build for our users and how the design function operates.
Vision and Strategy
- Define and articulate design vision for Flex's most critical and complex product initiatives, ensuring work aligns with business goals and resonates deeply with our users
- Establish a north star for the consumer experience and drive cross-functional alignment around it
- Influence product strategy and roadmap directly through the quality and clarity of your design work and perspective
- Stay close to how the design industry and UX trends are evolving and bring those insights into Flex
Quality and Craft
- Own the design process end-to-end on flagship initiatives, from research and ideation through refinement, prototyping, and final execution
- Hold a high bar for craft across everything you touch, from individual interaction patterns to our design system
- Build detailed prototypes that illuminate the future of the product and help teams make better decisions
- Use AI across the design lifecycle for, rapid exploration, prototyping, and front-end workflows, and model how the team can do the same
Influence and Collaboration
- Partner with design leadership, product, and engineering to shape the direction of complex, cross-cutting product areas
- Collaborate with other designers to ensure alignment and consistency across the consumer experience
- Advocate for design thinking and user-centered principles across the company at every level, up to and including executive leadership
Standards and Mentorship
- Establish and evolve design standards, processes, and patterns that raise the quality floor for the entire organization
- Provide mentorship and craft feedback to designers across the team
- Contribute foundational elements and set the standard for how the design system should evolve
Key Qualifications
- Experience: A demonstrated track record as a senior IC contributor on complex consumer products
- Design Mastery: Deep expertise in UX/UI design with strong experience showcasing shipped work at significant scope and quality
- Strategic Thinking: Ability and demonstrated experience to operate at the product strategy level, shaping direction through design
- Craft: Exceptional execution skills with high attention to detail in interaction design, visual design, and prototyping
- Collaboration: Excellent communication skills; able to work fluidly with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, marketing, and executive leadership
- Tools and Tech: Proficiency in modern design tooling; and fluency with front-end development
- AI Fluency: Comfort using AI tools across the design process for research, exploration, prototyping, and workflow improvement
- Passion: Genuine interest in financial products and improving people's financial lives
Compensation
This is a contract position with an hourly rate of $125–$200 per hour, commensurate with experience and our internal leveling guidelines. Flex takes a market-based approach to pay and utilizes a geographic pay differential based on a cost of labor index; if you are located outside of our Tier 1 (NYC/Bay Area) markets, your rate will be adjusted to align with the market conditions of your specific geographic zone. There is potential for this engagement to convert to a full-time role, in which case compensation would be aligned to the full-time salary range and benefits for the level.