Hybrid User Experience Designer

at Prosper Marketplace

• Job title: User Experience Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $117,000 - $145,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: React
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• UX Designer II leading design for core customer acquisition experiences at Prosper. Optimize the customer journey from arrival to conversion ensuring scalable, efficient, and user-centric solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive growth: Optimize high-traffic application flows to remove friction and increase conversion.
• Utilize Figma best practices: Build “Dev Mode” ready files using advanced Figma features.
• Collaborative execution: Work lock-step with your squad to ship high-value experiences.
• Aligned ownership: You take full ownership of your work, driving projects from concept to delivery.
• Apply design thinking: Drive the end-to-end process—empathizing, defining, ideating, and prototyping.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience: You have at least 5 years of professional experience in UX/Product design, preferably within fintech, consumer finance, or similar environments.
• Advanced Figma architecture: You are a top-tier Figma user. You use logic and structure to make your files efficient and maintainable.
• Communication & influence: You are a confident presenter who can clearly articulate the “why” behind your design decisions.
• Growth mindset: You are data-informed. You design for outcomes, not just aesthetics, and are comfortable iterating based on performance metrics.
• Design system proficiency: You know how to utilize an existing library effectively to maintain consistency without reinventing the wheel.
• AI-responsibility: You know how to use AI tools to work smarter and embrace their pragmatic value, but you also understand their limitations and advocate for responsible, ethical usage.
• Design thinking portfolio: Case studies that show your process (the “messy middle”), not just the final UI.
• Self-starter attitude: You take initiative to facilitate better hand-offs and collaboration.
• Nice to have: Experience building/maintaining design systems (tokens, components).
• Nice to have: Front-end development knowledge (HTML/CSS, React).
• Nice to have: Experience conducting your own usability testing.

Benefits

• Flexible time off
• Comprehensive health coverage
• Competitive salary
• Paid parental leave
• Wellness benefits including access to mental health resources, virtual HIIT and yoga workouts.
• Udemy access
• Childcare assistance
• Pet insurance discounts
• Legal assistance
• Additional discounts