Lead Product Designer

Givelify is a fintech-for-good company where brilliant minds come to power the most loved and trusted online and mobile giving app platform. Thanks to over 2 million generous donors, we’ve helped more than 80,000 nonprofits and places of worship raise over $7.5 billion. Together, they’re changing their world with kindness and generosity.

Inc. 5000, the Stevies® Awards, Gartner, Forbes, and many more have recognized our story, innovations, and achievements. Our award-winning team builds products and experiences that put more good into the world. We love to take on big challenges because we know our work matters.

Make an impact at one of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. Be part of a talented team of big-hearted individuals, earning competitive pay with excellent benefits.

About your role

We’re seeking a Lead Product Designer to elevate the quality, strategy, and impact of product design across Givelify’s mobile and web experiences. You’ll drive design excellence, guide cross-functional alignment, and shape end-to-end product vision—from discovery through delivery. In this role, you’ll combine hands-on design leadership with systems-level thinking to create simple, inspiring, and scalable product experiences for our giving community.

The Creative Team

Givelify’s Creative Team produces the experiences that wow our audiences and users. We consistently deliver world-class design and creativity across the entire business, serving our customers in collaboration with product, technology, marketing, support, and operations. This role reports to the Director of Product Design.

The Lead Product Designer will get to

Drive Product Design Initiatives

Lead design initiatives, imagine novel solutions, and guide cross-functional teams toward cohesive product outcomes. You move fluidly across the entire design process—from problem framing to high-fidelity prototypes—and elevate complexity into elegant simplicity. You know great design is invisible because it works effortlessly for our giving community.

Own End-to-End Design Execution

Ensure successful delivery of product experiences by driving all phases of design work. From discovery and solution ideation to refined interfaces and engineering handoff, you set the standard for quality, clarity, and completeness.

Optimize Design Operations & Efficiency

Maximize throughput and design velocity by shaping and owning design operations for your scope of work. You establish structure, anticipate needs, remove friction, and scale effective design practices across teams.

Quality Elevation & Feedback Culture

Continuously raise the bar for design excellence by soliciting, synthesizing, and acting on feedback from stakeholders. You model a culture of “feedback is fuel” and know how to extract value from different points-of-view to arrive at quality—strengthening both the work and the team behind it.

To be successful in this role, you’ll also:

Apply Human-Centered Design for Major Initiatives

Shape end-to-end product experiences by driving cross-functional conversations, orchestrating user flows, and guiding teams from concept through launch with a deeply human-centered approach.

Lead Cross-Functional Alignment

Collaborate strategically with Product, Engineering, and senior cross-functional leaders to influence priorities, illuminate trade-offs, and ensure every touchpoint reflects Givelify’s mission and strategic objectives.

Drive Insight-Informed Decision Making

Embed a deep understanding of Givelify’s audiences and business strategy into design decisions, representing the customer perspective at all times to guide product direction and elevate design quality.

Advance the Design System & Standards

Drive growth and adoption of the Givelify Design System—ensuring scalable, consistent, and brand-aligned experiences across platforms while coaching teams on best practices.

KPIs:
# of creative cycle days
# of replies per cycle

Your experience

Bachelor’s degree
Experience working on a native mobile apps team