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Who we are:
Shape a brighter financial future with us.
Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance.
We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.
The team
The Design Systems team at SoFi plays a critical role in shaping cohesive, scalable, and delightful product experiences across our financial ecosystem. Formed only about 1.5 years ago, this small but mighty team is dedicated to building and maintaining Pacific—our design system consisting of foundational elements such as components, guidelines, patterns, and tooling. Pacific empowers product teams to design and develop efficiently. Our mission is to accelerate innovation and foster collaboration through a robust, intuitive design system that amplifies quality, creativity, and speed.
The role
As the Senior Manager of Product Design for Design Systems, you'll define and lead the vision, strategy, and execution of Pacific. Your role is crucial in driving consistency, scalability, and design excellence throughout SoFi’s growing product portfolio. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional leaders across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Operations to ensure Pacific meets the evolving needs of our products and users. This role also requires hands-on individual contributor work, actively designing and directly contributing to Pacific across both mobile and web app platforms. As a manager, you’ll cultivate and mentor a talented design systems team, champion design system adoption, and actively shape the future of product design at SoFi.
SoFi has achieved significant growth, with ambitious plans ahead. To continue this trajectory, we need exceptional talent—and that starts with you.
Responsibilities:
- Define and drive the strategy, vision, and execution of SoFi’s design system, Pacific, including components, tooling, guidelines, and governance.
- Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and research leaders to ensure Pacific addresses current and future business needs, including integration of advanced capabilities such as AI and LLM.
- Perform hands-on design and actively contribute individual components, patterns, and improvements to Pacific across web and mobile platforms.
- Foster design system adoption across all product areas by championing its value, providing resources, training, and advocacy.
- Ensure high-quality, consistent, and accessible product experiences by setting and enforcing design standards and best practices.
- Help build a world-class app experience by evolving a design system that fosters innovation and raises the quality bar.
- Mentor, coach, and inspire your team of designers, helping them grow professionally and contribute effectively.
- Serve as a thought leader, advocating for design system excellence and influencing strategic decision-making across the company.
- Continuously evolve and refine Pacific through feedback, analytics, user research, and best practices.
Qualification and experience
- 10+ years of professional experience working with design systems or successfully shipping consumer-facing products and features, or a combination of both.
- 3+ years leading and managing high-performing design teams, with a proven track record of growing talent.
- Deep expertise in designing, scaling, and maintaining complex, modern design systems across responsive web, iOS, and Android platforms.
- Background or experience in visual design best practices—you understand what makes great design and know how to achieve it.
- An impeccable eye for detail—you know the little things matter.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating and advocating design system strategies to stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and executive leadership.
- Proficiency with design tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence).
- Demonstrated ability to leverage data analytics, user research, and testing to inform and validate design decisions.
- A portfolio (URL or PDF) demonstrating expertise in product design and design systems.
Even Better
- Experience working on personal finance products
- Experience shipping high quality & beloved software applications
Compensation and Benefits
The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.
To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!
SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.New York applicants: Notice of Employee RightsSoFi is committed to embracing diversity. As part of this commitment, SoFi offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email [email protected].Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.
Internal Employees
If you are a current employee, do not apply here - please navigate to our Internal Job Board in Greenhouse to apply to our open roles.
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What We Do
For over a decade, SoFi has helped transform the Fintech industry by creating financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, and protect their money better, so they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions. Whether it’s owning a home, saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, or helping our members invest - SoFi is there every step of the way. Want to learn more about how it works? Check it out here: https://www.sofi.com/how-it-works/
Our core values are at the center of how we help our millions of members get their money right. They are our guiding principles for how we think about serving our members, building our company, and most importantly, how we work together. At SoFi, it’s not just what we do - but how we do it.
SoFi is also proud to be the naming rights partner of SoFi Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Chargers and the Los Angeles Rams.
For more information, visit SoFi.com
Why Work With Us
Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance. We’re a next-generation Fintech company using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront.
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