Senior Product Designer (Contract)

Senior Product Designer (Contract)

*for Remitly’s Receivers team — Seattle preferred / open to remote*

Remitly is on a mission to transform the lives of immigrants and their families by providing the most trusted financial products and services on the planet. Since 2011, we have been tirelessly delivering on our promises to immigrants sending their hard earned money home. Today, we are reimagining international payments at scale and building new products to create deeper relationships with our customers and their loved ones across the globe. Join over 2,700 employees across 10 offices who are growing their careers while having a positive impact on people globally.

About the Role

Remitly’s Receivers team is a startup within Remitly. We are building the experience for 30 million new customers in emerging markets — people who will meet Remitly first as recipients, not as senders. We move at startup pace: scrappy, fast, minimal red tape, high responsibility per person.

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer (Contract) with an AI-first workflow and strong craft across both product UX and product marketing. You will partner day-to-day with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and other Designers to take ambiguous problems from "we think there is something here" to shipped, validated, customer-loved experiences.

You will move seamlessly between rapid prototyping with AI tools and detail-level Figma work against our design system and localization processes. You will conduct your own concept testing and customer interviews, and bring a strong point of view to design decisions — disagreeing productively when you believe customers deserve better.

This is a contract engagement of 3 months at 40 hours per week.

We prefer a Seattle-based hire on a hybrid schedule (2–3 days a week in the Seattle office). We are open to remote for the right candidate, with some travel expected.

How to stand out

Send us your resume and portfolio. We'll absolutely review. But if you want to jump to the top of the stack, show us your chops: Pick any money app of your choosing. Identify a problem or opportunity in it for a specific customer type. Use AI to design a prototype in 30 minutes or less. Show us your reasoning and prompts on the way. This can be as simple as a <5 min unpolished show-and-tell Loom video, a few slides, or a short doc -- whatever you feel is best. We love to see unpolished and scrappy work. Don’t spend hours on this; it’s your quality of thinking and prioritization that will shine through, not a slick presentation!

You Will

• Own design end-to-end across both product UX (flows, wireframes, prototypes, full-fidelity UI) and product marketing assets for the Receivers experience.
• Use AI tools fluently — Claude Code, Google Stitch, or similar for rapid prototyping; Claude (Cowork or Code), Gemini, or ChatGPT for rapid research, content generation, and analysis — to compress the path from problem to validated direction.
• Translate AI-driven prototypes into polished Figma work that respects our existing design system and localization processes.
• Make sense of ambiguous, complex problems and shape them into clear design directions without waiting for the brief to be perfect.
• Conduct concept testing and customer interviews to validate direction; synthesize qualitative and quantitative signal to inform decisions.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and other Designers — communicating progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly.
• Bring a strong point of view to design and product conversations, and push back when you believe a decision will let customers down.
• Document decisions and hand off cleanly so the team can pick up and maintain the work after the engagement ends.

You Have

• 7+ years of product design experience, including time in fast-moving, low-process environments where you owned outcomes from problem framing through ship.
• A strong portfolio showing shipped, customer-facing work with clear before/after, your specific contribution, and high attention to interaction and visual craft.
• A clear AI-leveraging workflow you can demonstrate — concrete examples of rapid prototyping with tools like Claude Code/Cowork or Google Stitch, and of using Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT for research, synthesis, and analysis. Strongly preferred.
• Expert-level Figma skills and fluency designing and prototyping complex workflows.
• Experience executing within an existing design system and a localization process.
• Experience conducting concept testing and customer interviews independently.
• Strong written and verbal communication; comfort with high autonomy and high responsibility.
• A track record of designing both product UX and product marketing assets, or a clear ability to flex across both.
• Eligibility to work in the United States. Seattle-based with hybrid availability (2–3 days a week in office) strongly preferred; open to remote for the right candidate, with some travel expected.

Nice to Have

• Multilingual ability — Spanish or other languages — to support customer interviews abroad.
• Experience designing for emerging markets, global audiences, or first-time digital users.
• Background in fintech, payments, or other consumer financial products.
• Prior contract or agency experience designing for consumer mobile and web.
• Experience designing accessibility-conscious and compliance-aware consumer experiences.

Equal Opportunity

Remitly is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Equal employment opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at Remitly. We are committed to nondiscrimination across our global organization and in all of our business operations. Employment is determined based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender identification and expression, marital status, military status or status as an honorably discharged veteran, pregnancy (including a woman’s potential to get pregnant, pregnancy-related conditions, and childbearing), sexual orientation, age (40 and over), national origin, ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical, mental, or sensory disability (including the use of a trained dog guide or service animal), HIV/AIDS or hepatitis C status, genetic information, status as an actual or perceived victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, or any other protected class as established by law.

Remitly is an E-Verify Employer.