Staff Product Designer

📍 Job Overview

Job Title: Staff Product Designer

Company: Brex

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Job Type: Full-Time

Category: Product Design / GTM Operations Enablement

Date Posted: 2026-09-02T17:29:01

Experience Level: 10+ Years

Remote Status: Hybrid

🚀 Role Summary

• Drive product design strategy and execution for Brex's intelligent finance platform, contributing to financial innovation and user experience excellence.

• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, and Data teams to define and launch impactful new products and features.

• Champion high visual standards and a user-centric approach, ensuring Brex remains a leader in the FinTech space.

• Influence strategic direction and operational components of product launches, from conception through onboarding support.

• Foster a culture of design excellence and continuous improvement, scaling design practices across the organization.

📝 Enhancement Note: This role, while titled "Product Designer," has significant GTM and operational enablement aspects. The emphasis on partnering with "Operations" teams, ensuring "operational components to support onboarding are in place," and contributing to "product launches" indicates a strong need for understanding the go-to-market process and how design directly supports operational efficiency and customer adoption. This is not just about UI/UX but about enabling the business through design.

📈 Primary Responsibilities

• Establish and execute a compelling product design vision and strategy for key initiatives, aligning with Brex's growth objectives.

• Drive innovation by challenging the status quo and inspiring cross-functional teams toward unified, impactful outcomes.

• Efficiently execute design processes to ship high-quality products that deliver measurable business and customer impact.

• Partner with leadership to communicate design strategy and influence product and design decisions across the company.

• Oversee the entire product lifecycle, from vision setting and strategy development to execution and ensuring operational readiness for customer onboarding.

• Contribute to the growth and scaling of the design function within Brex and the broader organization.

• Uphold and advance a high design bar and level of execution across all product touchpoints.

• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product Management, Operations, and Data teams to define requirements and launch new products and features.

📝 Enhancement Note: The responsibility to "ensure the operational components to support onboarding are in place" is a critical GTM operations connection. This means the designer must consider how the product's design impacts customer success, support teams, and the overall operational efficiency of bringing new users onto the platform. This goes beyond typical product design and touches on GTM enablement.

🎓 Skills & Qualifications

Education: While specific degree requirements are not listed, candidates are expected to possess a strong portfolio demonstrating equivalent knowledge and practical experience in product design.

Experience: 10+ years of experience as a Product Designer, with a significant track record of building customer-facing products from concept to launch (0 to 1).

Required Skills:

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to articulate strategy, process, and vision clearly.

• Demonstrated talent for leading cross-functional meetings and aligning diverse teams (Engineering, Marketing, Design, Product Management, Operations).

• Strong ability to craft compelling narratives and paint a clear vision that influences stakeholders and drives consensus.

• Proven experience building customer-facing products from the ground up (0 to 1).

• Passion for team building, mentorship, and developing talent within a design organization. Preferred Skills:

• Experience working with FinTech products, particularly in B2B financial services.

• Familiarity with both B2B and B2C product design environments.

• Experience contributing to documentation, training materials, and help articles to support product launches and customer adoption.

• Proficiency with tools such as Figma, Jira, Looker, Slack, Google Apps, Salesforce, and Chrome Console.

📝 Enhancement Note: The requirement for "strong written and verbal communication skills, with a talent for detailed articulations of strategy, process, and leading cross-functional meetings to align teams" is highly relevant to operations. This implies the designer will be involved in documenting processes, explaining workflows, and facilitating discussions that are common in operations roles. The "0 to 1" experience also suggests a need to understand launch processes, which are heavily reliant on operational readiness.

📊 Process & Systems Portfolio Requirements

Portfolio Essentials:

• Showcase a minimum of 3-5 comprehensive case studies demonstrating the end-to-end product design process for customer-facing products.

• Highlight projects where you have taken a product from initial concept (0 to 1) through successful launch and iteration.

• Include examples of how your design decisions supported business objectives and operational efficiency.

• Demonstrate your ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including Product, Engineering, and Operations.

• Present clear visual designs, user flows, wireframes, and prototypes, along with a narrative explaining your strategic thinking and problem-solving approach. Process Documentation:

• Portfolios should include examples of how you've documented design processes, user research findings, and strategic rationales.

• Showcase instances where your design work directly contributed to streamlining operational workflows or improving customer onboarding processes.

• Provide evidence of how you've contributed to or utilized design systems for consistency and scalability.

📝 Enhancement Note: Given the role's emphasis on operational components and launching products, portfolio pieces should ideally showcase how design directly impacted GTM or operational success. This could include case studies on onboarding flows, feature adoption strategies, or designs that simplified complex financial processes for end-users and internal operations teams.

💵 Compensation & Benefits

Salary Range: $240,000 - $300,000 USD annually.

• 📝 Enhancement Note: This salary range is estimated based on the provided data and industry benchmarks for a Staff Product Designer role with 10+ years of experience in a high-cost-of-living area like San Francisco. Actual compensation will vary based on location, candidate experience, skills, market demand, and internal pay equity.

Benefits:

• Equity: Opportunity to receive company stock options or grants.

• Remote work flexibility: Up to four weeks per year of fully remote work.

• Hybrid work environment: Combines in-office collaboration with remote flexibility.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) plan with company match.

• Generous paid time off and holidays.

• Professional development opportunities and stipends.

Working Hours: This is a full-time position. While specific hours are not detailed, a hybrid model with 3 days in office (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday) suggests a standard professional work week, likely around 40 hours, with flexibility for remote days.

• 📝 Enhancement Note: The hybrid schedule implies a need