Amount is the premiere digital transformation partner for financial institutions committed to the future of banking and to creating safe and personalized customer experiences that help people better manage their financial lives. Our fully integrated and flexible platform is built on years of digital lending experience, enabling digital agility within months and a full suite of end-to-end consumer, small business and embedded finance solutions that fit the way people want to bank.
Inclusion, diversity, and belonging are core to Amount's values, and we believe they are more than words, they are actions. We support our commitment to these ideas by empowering intrepid engagement and learning, increasing diverse representation, and fostering a culture where everyone can bring their full self to work without regard to differences. We look for people who embrace this culture.
A DAY IN THE LIFE:
As a Product Designer, you will embark on a journey of innovation and creativity, collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape the next generation of financial products. Your day will involve diving into understanding our users’ needs and pain points, translating insights into compelling design solutions, and driving the design of our products. From concept to implementation, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering exceptional user experiences that set our products apart.
Team: Work across multiple teams serving distinct user groups: applicants, business admins and back office associates.
Reporting: Reporting to Ryan Page, VP of Product Design (get to know Ryan HERE)
Base Salary: $99,000 - $132,000
Benefits & Perks: Check them out HERE!
WHAT WE’LL TRUST YOU TO DELIVER:
- User-Centric Design: Champion user-centered design principles by conducting thorough user research and ensuring the seamless integration of user feedback throughout the design process.
- Product Vision: Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to understand and shape our product vision and translate it into engaging and intuitive design solutions that align with business goals.
- Interactive Prototypes: Develop interactive prototypes to illustrate and validate design concepts, ensuring effective communication with development teams.
- Collaboration: Collaborate with a team of designers, providing perspective, insight and furthering a creative and collaborative design culture.
- Design Systems: Contribute to the ongoing development and maintenance of design systems, ensuring consistency across products and scalability for future initiatives.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Effectively communicate design decisions and rationale to both internal stakeholders and development teams, fostering a shared understanding of design objectives.
- Adaptability: Demonstrate adaptability and resilience in a fast-paced environment, continuously iterating on designs based on feedback, user testing, and evolving project requirements.
WHAT YOU LIKELY BRING TO THE TABLE:
- Experience: Minimum of 3 years of experience in product design, with a strong portfolio showcasing your design process, problem-solving skills, and the impact of your work on end-users.
- Expertise: Proficiency in industry-standard design tools, a deep understanding of UX/UI principles, and the ability to create effective and highly functional designs.
- Collaborative Spirit: Proven experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, product managers, and developers, with the ability to communicate design rationale effectively.
- Financial Industry Knowledge: A strong understanding of the fintech landscape and financial products is highly desirable.
- Innovative Mindset: A passion for staying abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and a commitment to incorporating innovative design methodologies into your work.
ABOUT AMOUNT (TL;DR)
Founded: 2020
Employees: 150+
Locations: Chicago (HQ) and US Remote
Funding: Amount has raised $281M in total equity capital since inception, including most recently at a valuation of $1B. Investors include WestCap, Hanaco Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Invus Opportunities, Mastercard, and PSCU
Press: Amount Blog - Equity Raise, Business Wire, PR Newswire - Comerica, PYMNTS - PSCU, A Year in Review - Amount’s Blog, Builtin, The Financial Brand
Key Customers: TD Bank, Velera, Guaranteed Rate, American Express, Citizens, Fifth Third Bank, Bank United, FIS, Associated Bank, Comerica
Social Media: LinkedIn, Builtin, Twitter, Amount Blog
Tech Stack: Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, Lattice, G Suite, Atlassian, AWS, Python, Java, Ruby, GO, node.js, Temporal, Scala, Apache NiFi, Talend, Informatica, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Pandas, Looker, Argo, Airflow Luigi, Kubernetes, C#, JavaScript (for advanced concepts), ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core, Microsoft SQL Server, Entity Framework (ORM for database interaction)
Top Skills
What We Do
Amount delivers the technology that financial institutions need to build and enhance the digital experience.
Built by digital lending industry veterans, Amount helps partners go digital in months—not years. Amount empowers multi-product omnichannel retail banking experiences and a robust point-of-sale financing suite underpinned by core platform features including fraud prevention, verification, decisioning engines and account management.
Amount partners can optimize performance across product categories by tapping into various service offerings including customer acquisition, funnel and performance assessments, and risk analytics.
Amount partners can optimize performance across product categories by tapping into various service offerings including customer acquisition, funnel and performance assessments, and risk analytics.
Why Work With Us
Culture matters here: from Demo Days and Current Events Talks to our Employee Resource Groups and community involvement, we pride ourselves on the workplace environment we’ve created.
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