Bread, a division of Alliance Data, is a technology-driven payments company that partners with merchants and partners to personalize payment options for their customers. Bread integrates directly with merchants on their ecommerce site and gives them a single platform that lets them offer more ways to pay over time. Bread’s full-funnel recommendation engine serves up the right options at the right time, empowering merchants to sell more, improve conversion, and lift average-order-value. To learn more, please visit breadpayments.com.

We’re hiring a Product Designer for our Merchant team. You will help us build solutions for our merchants that help them manage and make informed decisions about their business with Bread. You will launch features that generate measurable impact while also helping us level-up our craft. For example, you’ll work closely with a cross-functional team to evolve our Merchant Portal and provide a more user-centric experience for our merchants to manage their transactions and gain insights about their Bread loans. You will be involved in every step of the design process from requirement gathering and research to delivering high fidelity designs to our engineers and everything in between. As a part of a close-knit Product and Design team, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of Bread. This role reports to the Lead Product Designer - Merchant.

Your role at Bread

• Be instrumental in improving the efficiency of the Product Design, and in ensuring your team maintains its high business impact
• Support the Lead Product Designer and other key stakeholders in driving the design direction for the Product
• Produce top-notch work that injects usability and delight into the user experience as we continue to push the boundaries of modern UX
• Create exemplary prototypes and experiences, both alone and with other designers and key stakeholders, while balancing user needs, constraints of technology, brand values, and KPIs
• Provide your UX expertise and collaborate closely with our user researcher in discovering user pain points and problems, and solve them using all available UX methodologies and tools

What we are looking for

Must have:

• 2+ years of product design experience
• A strong online portfolio demonstrating your end-to-end process
• Curiosity and desire to represent the voice of our customers
• Ability to work cross-functionally with product management and engineering to develop and implement effective design practices
• An appetite for experimentation, learning, and iteration with a data-centric approach to testing ideas
• Extensive knowledge of design-related tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC, Invision, etc.
• Can hold your own in a meeting and present with a customer-centric POV
• Are self-motivated and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously

Nice to have:

• A degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors or a related discipline
• Financial services and/or payment services experience