Product Designer
Fancy
Product, Design
Irvine, CA, USA
USD 90k-150k / year + Equity
Posted on Jul 23, 2025
Product Designer
Irvine
Design
In office
Full-time
Fancy is a pioneering financial rewards platform that transforms rent payments into financial opportunities for renters in the U.S. By offering meaningful cashback rewards, flexible payment options, and personalized financial insights, Fancy addresses the critical challenges faced by renters while creating value for property managers and advertisers.
Fancy’s mission is to empower renters by alleviating financial stress and turning rent - a traditionally inflexible and unrewarding expense - into a source of financial empowerment. The platform creates a connected ecosystem where renters, property owners, and advertisers benefit from innovative solutions.
The Role
As a Product Designer at Fancy, you will craft intuitive, engaging, and user-centered experiences that elevate how consumers and partners interact with our app and portals. You will collaborate closely across departments to translate the needs of our customers and product goals into elegant design solutions that drive impact. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced startup environment, combines strong visual and interaction design skills, and is passionate about delivering seamless, inclusive, and meaningful user experiences.
What You’ll Do
User Research & Insights:
- Lead comprehensive user research to uncover needs, behaviors, and pain points
- Synthesize qualitative and quantitative feedback to drive informed design decisions
- Craft personas, journey maps, and user scenarios to shape product direction
- Translate insights into clear, actionable design goals and requirements
Design & Prototyping:
- Design user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and pixel-perfect UI for digital experiences
- Build intuitive navigation and robust information architecture for usability at scale
- Deliver responsive, accessible interfaces across web and mobile platforms
- Ensure visual consistency and brand alignment across all digital products
Usability Testing & Validation:
- Plan and facilitate usability tests to validate design hypotheses and flows
- Interpret user testing results and iterate designs to improve experience quality
- Share insights and design recommendations with cross-functional teams
- Uphold accessibility standards and UX best practices throughout the design lifecycle
Collaboration & Documentation:
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and cross-disciplinary partners
- Clearly articulate design rationale and decision-making to diverse audiences
- Maintain and evolve documentation, including style guides and design specs
- Contribute to the growth and consistency of the design system and component library
What You Bring
- 7+ years of product design experience with a proven record of shipping polished high-impact features.
- A strong portfolio showcasing your end-to-end UX process and polished UI craft. Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.
- Mastery of tools like Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite.
- Deep understanding of typography, responsive layouts, interaction patterns, and accessibility (WCAG).
- Strong experience in both B2C apps and internal enterprise tools.
- Clear communicator who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- Skilled in user research and usability testing, planning, executing, and synthesizing insights into design.
- Familiarity with component-based design systems and working within established frameworks.
Bonus points if you...
- Experience in rewards, loyalty, or fintech spaces.
- Comfortable with basic front-end technologies (CSS, HTML, JavaScript).
- Led or facilitated user research and complex feedback loops.
What You’ll Get
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents
- Catered lunches provided daily
- Unlimited PTO; we trust you to take the time you need
- 401(k) with employer match
- Equity opportunity (where applicable)
- Monthly WellHub wellness reimbursement
- A mission-driven, startup culture that encourages curiosity, ownership, and showing up as your full self
At Fancy, we believe clarity and mutual alignment are the foundation of trust, especially when it comes to compensation.
We do our best to communicate transparently throughout the hiring process, including providing salary ranges for all open roles. Early in your conversations with us, we’ll also ask about your compensation expectations so we can ensure we’re aligned and avoid surprises later in the process. If expectations are out of sync, we’ll talk through it openly and determine together whether it makes sense to continue.
We’re currently considering candidates at a range of experience levels for this position. Final leveling will be determined based on your background, interview performance, and how your skills map against the expectations of the role.
Where you land within our salary band will reflect your experience and strengths, and how those compare across others in similar roles at Fancy.
The salary range for a Product Designer is $90,000 – $150,000.
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