Candescent is a forward-thinking technology company transforming how financial institutions deliver Intelligent Banking experiences. We unite digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions that power and connect digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions—creating seamless engagement across digital, remote, and in-person channels.
Our Experience-Led, Intelligence-Driven approach combines human-centered design with data, automation, and cloud-based innovation. Built on an API-first architecture, our extensible ecosystem enables institutions to adapt quickly, integrate easily, and unlock new opportunities for growth—turning every customer interaction into a moment of clarity, confidence, and connection.
Senior AI Designer
AI Platform Role Summary At Candescent AI Platform team, we are seeking an experienced, self-starting and innovative AI Senior Designer who is a system thinker, focusing on translating strategic concepts, AI behaviors, and AI design patterns into cohesive, elegant product experiences by designing reusable components that scale across multiple platforms. As a key member of our AI design team, you will work hand-to-hand with product managers, researcher, content writers, engineers to design and build next generation AI banking solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead UX projects and drive overarching UX strategy
- Uphold experience design (XD) processes and collaborate closely with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions that align with the product's visual and experiential direction
- Execute all stages of visual design, from initial concept through engineering design reviews
- Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user-centered design approach to complex design challenges.
- Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, and process flows to effectively communicate design and interaction concepts
- Participate in user research and evaluate user feedback to guide design improvements • Contribute to and promote design guidelines, best practices, and standards Experience/Skills
- +7 years of experience crafting and shipping scalable, Multi-platform UX design, or product design for consumer products.
- +1 year of experience crafting and leading user experience designs for AI-powered products or features.
- Experience owning end-to-end UX design from concept and discovery to clean, intuitive user flows and final visual design.
- Highest level of visual design craft and system thinking.
- Ability to create, refine and evolve interaction design with usability mindset and highest level of clarity holistically for all user scenarios and edge cases.
- Well-verse with building productive collaboration, establishing healthy partnership with cross functional teams and making collaborative decisions from concept to delivery.
- Proficiency in Figma, Figma Jam, Figma Make, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch or similar design and prototyping tools
Nice to have
- Experience designing for fintech, finance or baking industry
- Experience using AI tools for design inspiration
- Experience using AI tools for prototypes
- Vibe-coding experience with rapid prototypes
- Design agency experience
Statement to Third Party Agencies
To ALL recruitment agencies: Candescent only accepts resumes from agencies on the preferred supplier list. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Candescent employees, or any Candescent facility. Candescent is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.
Skills Required
- 7 years of experience in UX design or product design for consumer products
- 1 year of experience in designing for AI-powered products
- Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, or similar tools
Candescent Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Candescent and has not been reviewed or approved by Candescent.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies include unlimited vacation for full-time exempt staff, tenure-based accrual for non-exempt, plus floating holidays and sick leave. This breadth of time off suggests flexibility across employment classifications.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A discount program is cited that provides access to deals at over 250 retailers. This perk adds everyday savings beyond core benefits.
Candescent Insights
What We Do
Candescent brings together the transformative technologies that power and connect account opening, digital banking and branch solutions for banks and credit unions of all sizes. And we’re here to help you extend, differentiate and illuminate your digital-first banking experiences. Our industry-leading products and services, cloud architecture and on-demand developer tools give you the power to differentiate and deliver seamless customer journeys.
