Senior Manager, Product Design, Home Loans

SoFi SoFi · Fintech · San Francisco, CA · Product Design

Senior Manager of Product Design for Home Loans at SoFi, responsible for defining design strategy, driving innovation, and leading a design team to create seamless financial experiences for members and internal agents. The role emphasizes collaboration with cross-functional partners, ensuring high-quality design practices, and mentoring design team members.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define the design strategy for Home Purchase, Home Refinance and Home Equity
  2. Drive innovation for both SoFi members and the internal agents who ensure members get the best loans for their needs
  3. Collaborate with key partners including Product Director, Engineering Senior Managers, Business leads, Marketing & Ops to strategize roadmaps and priorities
  4. Be a critical partner to strategize roadmaps and priorities with your cross-functional lead partners
  5. Ensure strong design practices from concept to launch, resulting in high-quality, polished experiences

Skills

Required

  • 10+ yrs experience successfully shipping products and features from start to finish
  • 3+ years leading and managing high-performing design teams of 4+ people
  • Entrepreneurial mindset and passion for building a business
  • Excellent skills in articulating and advocating for design solutions to executive leadership and diverse stakeholders
  • Expert in best practices in UX, design and information architecture across responsive web, iOS, and Android
  • Experience with current design tools (Figma, Google Suite, etc.)
  • Understanding of how to use data analytics, user testing and research to inform and validate design decisions and focus on constant improvement
  • Experience working in an agile development environment using tools like Jira and Confluence
  • Ability to ensure high-quality, consistent, and accessible product experiences by setting and enforcing design standards and best practices

Nice to have

  • Experience working on Home Loans/Mortgages products
  • Experience shipping high quality & beloved software applications
  • Experience implementing AI/LLMs into genuinely useful product experiences

What the JD emphasized

  • shipping products and features from start to finish
  • leading and managing high-performing design teams of 4+ people