Sr Experience Designer

Senior Experience Designer At Venmo

As a Senior Experience Designer at Venmo, you'll craft end-to-end experiences for millions of users worldwide. Working closely with product and engineering partners, you'll help inform strategy, shape the roadmap, and drive execution to deliver seamless, intuitive financial experiences. This role demands a seasoned designer with a deep commitment to user-centered design—someone who can blend strategic thinking with high-quality execution to build trust and security within our financial products.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate cross-functionally with product management, engineering, content design, and user research to create and deliver best-in-class products and services using a customer-focused, iterative design process.
Contribute to planning and estimation, ensuring alignment across workstreams and setting clear expectations.
Drive high-quality execution by producing polished design deliverables aligned with product goals—managing your work independently and effectively presenting to stakeholders, including executives.
Leverage and enhance design systems, tools, and templates to create scalable, consistent experiences.
Optimize design processes, recommending new methods or refining existing approaches to improve efficiency and impact.
Foster collaboration across disciplines, driving excellence in design execution and influencing product direction.
Lead design initiatives, guide best practices in UX methodology, process, and execution.
Requirements:
5+ years of experience leading and shipping consumer mobile app experiences, with a strong track record of measurable impact.
Comfort in operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, paired with excellent communication and collaboration skills; confident in presenting to senior and executive audiences.
Exceptional craft skills, including the ability to build realistic prototypes and work fluently with design systems, pattern libraries, repositories, and internal design tooling.
Deep understanding of product design methodologies and lifecycle, across multiple channels and platforms.
User-centered mindset, with experience leveraging design research to uncover insights and inform decisions.
Highly self-sufficient, able to manage design responsibilities independently and balance iterative exploration with milestone-driven delivery.
General awareness of front-end technologies (JavaScript, HTML/CSS) and how they impact design implementation.
Experience in fintech or financial products is a plus.