Product UI Designer

*This role requires in-person attendance in our Charlotte, NC office 3 days per week, usually Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday*

Our Company:

LendingTree was founded in 1996 by CEO Doug Lebda to help people comparison shop and get a great deal on the single biggest transaction of their lives: their mortgage. Since then, we’ve facilitated over 65 million loan requests, while becoming a household name (our brand recognition rivals Bank of America and Wells Fargo).  Today we do much more than mortgages. We are the #1 online marketplace in the US for consumers to comparison shop for mortgages, personal loans, credit cards, student loans, auto loans and insurance. We have established relationships with millions of customers who engage with us through our My LendingTree portal, giving them access to free credit scores and money saving alerts. We are on a mission to help consumers save money and better their lives.
We’re publicly traded (TREE), we’re financially sound and we’re in the top 10 of Fortune’s 100 Fastest Growing Companies. If you’re looking for an opportunity with a dynamic company that is fanatically pro-consumer and that champions your entrepreneurial spirit, then you’ve come to the right place!

The Position:

We’re seeking a Sr. Product UI Designer to play a critical role in defining the look, feel and user journey of our internal lender portal. You'll work closely with product managers, developers, and data engineers to create designs and experiences that are not only visually appealing but also user-friendly and aligned with our business goals. You’ll be responsible for identifying the jobs to be done and designing the most effective way to complete those tasks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design engaging and intuitive user experiences for our lender portal
• Create user-friendly designs that enhance usability and optimize the overall user experience, while identifying design challenges and proposing elegant, effective solutions
• Understand business priorities together with user needs to create impactful experiences
• Engage in a robust discovery process to produce concept designs, user flows, wireframes, journey maps, prototypes and eventual final designs
• Work closely with the product UI team to maintain design guidelines, best practices, and design system standards to ensure consistency across all platforms and experiences.
• Work directly with engineers to ensure a seamless design to development handoff process
• Participate in design review sessions, offering constructive feedback to peers while also effectively presenting your projects to the design team.
• Stay up to date with the latest UX trends, best practices, and methodologies in areas like human-centered design, interaction design, and usability.

Our Ideal Candidate:

• Is a graduate from a 4-year school with a graphic design degree, human-computer interaction, or close equivalent
• 4-8 years of product UI experience, especially dashboards and digital management systems
• Has experience with product discovery processes, demonstrating a strong ability to identify user needs, validate concepts, and iteratively develop solutions based on user feedback and data insights.
• Has a portfolio of stellar UI design that demonstrates excellent design principles, and problem solving through visual communication
• Has excellent interpersonal skills and significant experience working cross functionally – should be able to collaborate closely with Product, and Tech peers as a key creative partner
• Can understand business objectives and proactively contribute both strategic and design ideas
• Can work in a fast-paced team environment and juggle multiple projects at once
• Incorporates feedback from a diverse set of stakeholders with professionalism and flexibility and prioritizes a collaborative design process
• Produces quick and dirty concepts for review and testing

Professional Knowledge:

• Expert knowledge of Figma design and prototyping
• Experience with product discovery processes and user testing
• Experience using and adhering to UI component libraries and designs systems
• Strong understanding of UX and UI design principles, best practices, and accessibility standards

Our Culture:

Our clothes are casual and relaxed, and our work ethic is highly professional. It is our culture for each team member to challenge the status quo, express their opinions, and to stand up, ask for the ball and run with it to meet our aggressive goals. We also have a lot of fun together! We’re always looking for the best, brightest, high energy, results-driven Rock Stars to join our team. We reward innovation, creativity and the ability to just GET STUFF DONE. 

LendingTree is the kind of company that not only promotes diversity and inclusion, we thrive because of these values. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion (or creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or military status.

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