Published: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 04:50:27 GMT
Senior Visual Designer Job Description
Groundfloor is seeking a talented Senior Visual Designer to join our dynamic team and lead high-quality, user-centered design initiatives. As a Senior Visual Designer at Groundfloor, you will play a crucial role in shaping our cutting-edge investment platform that allows both non-accredited and accredited investors to participate directly in short-term, high-yield real estate investments. Your expertise in creating intuitive, consumer-grade designs will empower our users to effortlessly build and manage their portfolios.
In this role, you will collaborate closely with the Product team to enhance visual design for user workflows, identify pain points, and execute designs across Groundfloor’s product lines. Our company is remote-friendly and rapidly growing, and we value open communication and collaboration. If this sounds like the kind of environment you thrive in, we encourage you to join us!
This job might be for you if:
– You have a passion for understanding user needs and behaviors, and are committed to delivering products that exceed expectations.
– You are skilled in delivering both wireframes and high-quality, polished designs using Figma.
– You have a keen eye for design and a deep appreciation for modern aesthetics, coupled with a practical understanding of how exceptional UX/UI drives business success in the fintech domain.
– You are proficient in using and building design systems with Figma, allowing for agility and scalability over time.
– You have a strong curiosity and problem-solving mindset, always seeking novel ways to discover and solve customer problems.
– You can balance short-term goals with long-term objectives and contribute to an established product vision and strategy.
– You have a high-quality bar and strive for excellence in your work.
A day in the life:
– Work collaboratively with engineering, product, and business teams to define problems, research requirements, map user flows, prototype, and launch new products.
– Manage the execution of design projects and lead the development of the design team.
– Proactively offer recommendations and solutions by championing high-quality design standards grounded in research and analysis.
– Create deliverables at various levels of fidelity, from sketches to wireframes to final designs.
– Communicate progress and key updates with other team members regularly.
– Cultivate a deep understanding of Groundfloor’s existing products and our users.
– Support early product definition by working closely with stakeholders and customers to participate in discovery sessions that uncover customer pain points and opportunities.
– Work with product managers to understand customer needs and define opportunities through usability testing.
Requirements:
– 3-5 years of product and visual design experience.
– Professional experience with financial tools, investment platforms, and/or real estate products is preferred, but not required.
– Success in raising the design bar on consumer-facing products, emphasizing a customer-first approach.
– A high degree of financial literacy and comfort with basic concepts related to building and managing a personal portfolio of investments in public and private market securities.
– Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Your experience + a few nice-to-haves:
– Professional experience with Figma design.
– Knowledge of financial tools, investment platforms, and/or real estate products.
– Experience with usability testing.
– Prior success in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
Benefits:
We value our employees’ time and efforts, and our commitment to your success is reflected in our competitive compensation and extensive benefits package. This includes paid time off, medical, dental, and vision benefits, potential equity for strong candidates, and future growth opportunities within the company. We also strive to maintain a collaborative and creative work environment where each person feels encouraged to contribute to our processes, decisions, planning, and culture.
Groundfloor is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.
About Groundfloor:
Groundfloor is the first and only private real estate lending marketplace open to non-accredited investors. Our platform allows individual investors to access short-term, high-yield returns backed by real estate, while borrowers can secure flexible, fast, and affordable financing for their real estate projects. Since our launch in 2013, we have helped hundreds of thousands of investors build their own private real estate investment portfolios with as little as $100 to start.
We are headquartered in Atlanta and have raised over $30 million in capital from various sources, including venture capital and online public equity offerings. Our company is 30% customer-owned, with over 6,400 public shareholders. We have been recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America, ranking in the top 10% of companies on the 2020 #Inc5000 List and the fastest-growing private financial services company in Georgia.
Join our fast-growing team on a mission to benefit individual investors and the investments they fund by reformatting and opening private capital markets to broad public participation. Apply link