Hybrid Product Designer

at TransUnion

• Job title: Product Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $72,300 - $105,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chicago, United States

About the role

• Product Designer at TransUnion leading design for high-impact initiatives, collaborating closely with product, engineering, and research teams to deliver solutions. Focused on identity protection, fraud, and credit-related experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design for high-impact initiatives
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and research to solve complex problems and deliver clear, thoughtful solutions
• Own design work from discovery to delivery across core product workflows in identity protection, fraud, and credit‑related experiences
• Translate complex problems into elegant solutions using user flows, wireframes, conceptual explorations, high‑fidelity visuals, and interactive prototypes
• Contribute to and evolve our design system in partnership with other designers and engineering teams
• Voice informed design opinions early in the process to help shape direction and uncover opportunities
• Create executive summaries to present ideas, solutions, research, to senior product and technology managers
• Collaborate with UX researchers and global insights team on planning, synthesizing, and applying insights
• Participate in usability testing and contribute to research briefs and discovery artifacts
• Advocate for user needs while balancing business goals and technical constraints
• Apply ADA and accessibility best practices throughout the design process
• Communicate design decisions clearly through storytelling, presentations, and structured documentation
• Build consensus across cross‑functional peers and influence stakeholders through data‑backed rationale

Requirements

• 5+ years of product design experience
• Proven ownership of end‑to‑end design projects (led initiatives, not just supporting tasks)
• Experience working with design systems (e.g., Material Design, Polaris) in a corporate product environment
• Proficiency in Figma and prototyping tools used to define and validate solutions
• Experience in fintech, security, fraud, identity protection, or regulated industries (preferred)
• Experience contributing to UX briefs or discovery artifacts (preferred)
• Exposure to executive‑level storytelling or presenting (preferred)

Benefits

• Flexible time off for exempt associates
• Paid time off for non-exempt associates
• Up to 12 paid holidays per year
• Health benefits (including medical, dental, and vision plan options)
• Health spending accounts
• Mental health support
• Disability benefits
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Fertility planning coverage
• Legal benefits
• Long-term care insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Charity gift matching
• Employee stock purchase plan
• 401(k) retirement savings with employer match
• Access to TransUnion’s Employee Resource Groups