Oportun (Nasdaq: OPRT) is a mission-driven fintech that puts its members' financial goals within reach. With intelligent borrowing, savings, and budgeting capabilities, Oportun empowers members with the confidence to build a better financial future. Since inception, Oportun has provided more than $19.7 billion in responsible and affordable credit, saved its members more than $2.4 billion in interest and fees, and helped its members save an average of more than $1,800 annually. Oportun has been certified as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) since 2009.
WORKING AT OPORTUN
Working at Oportun means enjoying a differentiated experience of being part of a team that fosters a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where we all feel a sense of belonging and are encouraged to share our perspectives. This inclusive culture is directly connected to our organization's performance and ability to fulfill our mission of delivering affordable credit to those left out of the financial mainstream. We celebrate and nurture our inclusive culture through our employee resource groups.
We are looking for passionate and skilled Product Designers. You will be working with some of the sharpest, and nicest people in the industry, while solving problems that have a real world impact.
RESPONSIBILITIES- Partner with various stakeholders to build clarity around the problem space.
- Constantly strive for simplicity and thoughtfulness in your solutions.
- Cultivate an understanding of business and product needs.
- Bring a very high degree of craftsmanship and attention to detail in your work.
- Own the solution space from problem understanding to visual design, and ship good quality work.
- Help build a good design culture.
- Iterate, iterate, iterate.
- 3 to 5 years of relevant product design experience.
- Experience working on consumer facing desktop and mobile products.
- In-depth knowledge of Figma.
- An excellent online portfolio.
- Genuine passion for product design, tons of humility, openness to feedback and eagerness to get better, along with very good communication skills.
- Very good knowledge of working with design systems.
- Strong brand and customer empathy.
- Deep understanding of product and business goals, and knowledge to use them to inform decision making.
- Very good knowledge of using data to make informed decisions.
- Ability to work with complex and open-ended problems, and the ability to navigate ambiguity.
- Know when to solve for consistency and when to solve for context.
- Ability to manage stakeholders and influence decision making.
- Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy, and to drive projects and conversations independently.
- Ability to plan and manage your work, and contribute to the design roadmap.
- Some exposure to hiring and guiding younger designers.
- Strong first principles thinking and strong product thinking.
- An effort vs impact mindset.
- Ability to question the status-quo, go beyond what’s expected and handle unexpected situations with maturity.
- Very good grasp on complementary skills like motion design, advanced prototyping, illustrations, iconography and UX writing.
- Excellent craft and attention to detail.
- Very strong fundamentals.
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