Product Designer - Fi Admin

About Candescent

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Own UX across complex, multi-step workflows, from research understanding and flows through wireframes, UI, and prototypes.
• Convert ambiguous requirements into structured, intuitive solutions and design responsive web and mobile experiences.
• Deliver polished visual interfaces and craft micro-interactions and micro-animations.
• Maintain design-system consistency while advancing visual quality.
• Ensure designs align with WCAG standards, including contrast, touch targets, semantic structure, keyboard navigation, and clear affordances.
• Advocate for inclusive design during reviews and discussions.
• Build high-fidelity prototypes and run quick validation cycles.
• Balance business goals, user needs, and engineering constraints; communicate concepts to product managers, engineers, and stakeholders.
• Identify UX and UI issues, propose improvements, mentor junior designers, and raise design quality.

Required qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in design, HCI, Human Factors Engineering, Product Design, Communication Design, Behavioral Science, or a related field.
• At least 6 years of UX/UI or Product Design experience with a strong hybrid portfolio.
• Strong expertise in UX flows, information architecture, visual design, and interaction logic; experience designing for web and mobile.
• Deep understanding of WCAG accessibility standards and inclusive design best practices.
• Strong skills in spacing, grids, typography, layout systems, and pixel-level detailing.
• Strong Figma expertise and experience with modern design systems.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite or another visual design and wireframing tool; excellent high-fidelity interactive prototyping skills.
• Ability to grasp complexity quickly, take ownership, communicate clearly, and tell design stories.

Preferred distinctions

• Fintech, payments, or data-heavy interface experience is preferred.
• Comfort with micro-interactions, motion, easing, and interaction feedback is preferred.
• Knowledge of motion tools such as Rive, ProtoPie, After Effects, or Principle is preferred.
• Expertise with AI tools, design-system contributions, workshop facilitation, and basic research or usability-testing exposure are preferred.

What the role offers

• Ownership of high-impact, high-visibility product areas.
• Opportunity to shape visual and interaction standards across platforms.
• A design-forward environment valuing speed, clarity, and craft.