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Mercury · 20 hours ago

Senior Brand Designer - Expressive UI

Mercury is a financial technology company focused on bringing a design-forward approach back to banking. They are seeking a Senior Brand Designer to shape the visual identity of their products and website, ensuring a cohesive and innovative user experience.

BankingFinancial ServicesFinTech

Responsibilities

Shape visual design, motion, and evolution of our emerging interfaces in product and web, ensuring our brand comes to life through the user experience
Lead with an AI-first design and development mindset
Shape core aspects of the Mercury UI
Elevate brand expression through innovative and opinionated visual design and visual asset libraries, ensuring unique brand moments at the right touchpoints for our users
Help build our design system by creating comprehensive frameworks, documentation, and libraries that other designers can follow to bring their work to life visually
Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product and executive teams
Give and solicit feedback from other designers to continually raise our bar for quality
Champion craft and clarity in every deliverable from the initial sketch to final production files
Effectively balance multiple projects, from concepting through to final execution, managing timelines with clarity and calm
Collaborate proactively and communicate effectively in an environment that values diverse perspectives, creativity, and innovation

Qualification

Brand designVisual communicationUI designMotion designDesign systemsUser researchData visualizationFeedback solicitationAnalytical skillsCollaborationStrategic thinking

Required

7–10 years of experience in brand design, art direction, or visual communication, ideally with a mix of in-house and agency experience
A strong portfolio that demonstrates conceptual range, systems thinking, and refined visual execution across digital interfaces
Experience building and evolving apps
A passion for turning complex problems into simple but expressive UI
Outstanding systems thinking, visual design, and product thinking
Experience applying research, usability tests, and metrics to inform design decisions
Comfort with an iterative design process that includes accepting and acting on feedback
Strong analytical, technical, and strategic experience
Experience defining motion libraries for UI
Experience building data visualization libraries consumed by product teams
Experience collaborating across disciplines to lead or support a new idea or product to launch
Experience conducting and guiding user research and cross-functional collaboration
Proven skills in presenting work, workshopping concepts, and evangelizing new ideas
Experience with front-end engineering constraints and direct experience partnering with engineers
6+ years of experience on creative teams and in technical environments
8+ years of software design, visual design, interaction design, UX design, and prototyping experience

Benefits

Equity (stock options)
Benefits

Company

Mercury provides online banking solutions for startups and technology-focused businesses.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$452.21M
Key Investors
Sequoia CapitalCoatueCRV
2025-12-25Series C
2025-03-26Series C· $300M
2025-03-26Secondary Market

Leadership Team

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Immad Akhund
CEO & Founder
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Jason Zhang
COO, Co-Founder
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