In 1954, in Columbus, Indiana, Eero Saarinen designed a branch office with glass walls, no offices, and a completely open floor plan. It was surrounded by trees; the furniture was made by Herman Miller; the lobby flooring was thick, rustic brick. It was built with transparency and community at its core.

Since 1954, a lot of things have happened—Saarinen’s branch is now a conference center, people increasingly live on the internet, and it’s hard to think of a single financial institution that still applies design thinking to their product.

We believe that in 2022 this revolves around thoughtful design, and we’re looking to add product designers of all levels to our team to help.

You’ll:

• Take ownership of large portions of a complex product

• Work across the entire design stack, including: speccing projects; designing workflows, detailed interactions, and high-fidelity visuals; and ensuring quality implementation

• Find elegant solutions to user problems, and think critically from the user perspective

• Simplify and cull design elements with a ruthless eye

• Craft designs from first principles (referencing existing solutions is often a poor idea)

• Imbue mundane tasks and flows with a feeling of wonder

• Prototype multiple visual and UX concepts and then narrow them to the right solution

• Explain and debate the reasoning behind your product decisions

• Work directly with engineers, the business team, and the design team.

You should:

• Have the ability to design whole systems, not just interface elements or static pages

• Have experience and interest in the entire design stack, including UI/UX, visual design, and interaction design

• Have experience building for a variety of form factors, including mobile

• Understand when no design is the best design

• Have a strong personal design aesthetic and also understand the Mercury aesthetic

• Want to create elegant, calm designs that predict and exceed users’ expectations

• Feel comfortable anticipating and designing for edge cases

• Understand the balance between perfect design and getting to market

• Exhibit kindness and humility in everyday interactions

You can learn more about our Mercury design team on read.cv.