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Lead Product Designer

Stride enables independent workers to reap the benefits of their independence. We simplify the challenges of being self-employed by helping workers handle the complexities of insurance, finances, and taxes — in one convenient platform. Since we were founded in 2014, we have helped over 3.7 million workers save an estimated $5.4 billion on their taxes and monthly health insurance premiums.

Stride partners with over 100 leading companies like Uber, Amazon, DoorDash, and Instacart to provide their independent workers with access to our benefits platform. The company is backed by $96 million in capital from Venrock, New Enterprise Associates, Fidelity’s F-Prime Capital Partners, Mastercard, Allstate and King River.

Cash compensation range: $ 201 - 218K USD annually + equity

About the Role:

We’re looking for an experienced product design leader to help us grow our FinTech and Portable Benefits products. This leader will partner with cross-functional peers in design, engineering, sales, marketing, partnerships, and other product teams to drive activation of our holistic portable benefits solution. We’re looking for someone who’s passionate about solving the financial security needs of independent workers, delivering great consumer product experiences, and collaborating to solve hard problems.

Responsibilities:

Constantly look for ways to balance the consumer needs with business objectives when designing amazing experiences that help our consumers
Partner with CPTO and Design peers to align on a vision for our user experiences and evolve our offering to more tech-enabled and streamlined experience.
Lead the user experience of our consumer benefits marketplace and enrollment flows, in close partnership with Product and Engineering Managers
Drive design initiatives from conception to completion – taking ideas from inception to development with multiple iterations that take into account user-feedback from usability studies and feedback from your cross functional team members
Drive the product copy and language of all of our products and enrollment flows within the Stride Platform. Using accessible language is one of our guiding principles
Drive user research for your work-streams, leveraging research to help anchor and inform designs
Articulate design solutions through flow charts, prototypes, high-fidelity mocks, technical specifications and production assets. All of your solutions should aim to simplify the complexity around benefits and finances
Participate in coaching and developing our Product Design team helping us grow and advance our skill sets

Qualifications:

10+ years of consumer and enterprise design experience (including web and mobile)
Strong proficiency working with Figma/Miro/Photoshop and similar tools
Strong storytelling and presentation skills that enable you to articulate a design vision to a broader audience and other leaders.
Proven ability to align with leadership and peers on requirements, customer value, and trade offs of tactical vs strategic solutions and flex design solutions appropriately
Proven ability to manage the entire process of conceptualizing and delivering new products and their design while refining existing ones
Strong analytical mindset and demonstrated experience building flexible designs and testing optimizations through data-informed metrics and analytics
Exceptional communication skills with a knack for decomposing problems and driving clarity across multiple stakeholders
Entrepreneurial drive, a strong desire for ownership, and passion for building amazing product experiences
A portfolio that demonstrates your skills, the impact of your work, and your ability to tell a story

Nice-to-haves

Experience building consulting/gig economy services or applications
Experience optimizing onboarding and activation experiences
Experience with products that have operational/business processes behind the scene
Experience in public and/or digital health, insuretech, insurance brokerage
Managerial experience

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Helpful Information:

This resource will help explain Stride’s Compensation Philosophy and compensation practices, and will answer some common questions you might have.

Stride’s Compensation Philosophy utilizes a National Payscale, which is designed to fairly and equitably pay employees based on their performance and impact regardless of geographic location. For employees in the United States, our National Payscale leverages San Francisco Bay Area market data to determine our compensation bands for cash, commissions, or bonus (if applicable) and equity.

Unless otherwise noted, the cash compensation above is the total salary and does not include a bonus. In addition to cash compensation, all full-time Striders will be given stock options to participate in Stride’s equity incentive program. We want all Striders to be an owner of the company, value that ownership, and be able to participate in any future positive outcomes for the company.

Individual compensation packages are based on a few different factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications, and other job-related reasons. Our compensation ranges are designed to be competitive, equitable, and growth-oriented.

We know that benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package. To learn more about what’s included in total compensation, check out some of the benefits and perks Stride offers to all US-based employees.

At Stride, we believe in compensating Striders in ways that are true to their value in the marketplace, that inspire and motivate the team to execute our vision, that shape behavior toward productively building and sustaining Stride's culture, and that support the risks and rewards of a fast-growing technology company.

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing. This can get in the way of meeting incredible candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you!