Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designer

We have a strong commitment to building a diverse team. If you’re from a background that’s underrepresented, we’d particularly love to meet you.

About Our Team

Fringe is a fast-growing HR technology company based in Virginia. Founded in late 2018, Fringe is the first ever platform for personalized lifestyle benefits. At Fringe, we are a relentlessly people-focused group revolutionizing the way employers care for their people in the benefits space. We’re a supportive, down-to-earth team, fully committed to the belief that relationships fuel outstanding client experience.

What You Get to Do

As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our product’s future, working alongside Product Managers and Engineers to deliver solutions that customers love and align with our business objectives. You’ll use customer insights to discover, prototype, test, influence and design solutions that bring our product vision to life.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• User-Centered Design: Utilize customer insights to drive the discovery, prototyping, testing, and design of solutions that are usable and align with our product vision. 
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver seamless, impactful, and valuable user experiences.
• Research and Validation: Participate in regular product discovery and customer interviews alongside a Product Manager and Tech Lead, and conduct user research and usability testing–turning complex user needs into simple, intuitive design solutions. 
• Design Systems Maintenance: Contribute to and evolve our design system, creating new patterns and standards that elevate the overall product experience.
• Strategic Thinking: Influence product strategy by aligning design goals and customer insights with business objectives, ensuring that user experience is a key driver in product development.
• End-to-End Experience Design: From ideation to final design, you’ll create process flows, user journey maps, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that effectively communicate the intended user experience.

Who We’re Looking For:

• Experienced and Empowered: With 5+ years as a Product Designer and 2+ years of experience working on technology-powered products, you understand modern product discovery and delivery methods and how to drive the best solutions for business challenges. 
• Product-Focused Mindset: You have a product-focused mindset. You have the passion and ability to discover what our customers will love and help them realize the value our products offer.
• Problem Solver: You excel at solving tough problems with innovative solutions, embracing failure and iteration as part of the process.
• Customer-Centric: You deeply understand our users and customers, transforming insights into user-centered solutions through ongoing prototyping and testing.
• UX Obsessed: You exhibit a strong foundation in user experience design, and you enjoy the challenge of turning complex problems into simple, elegant solutions that users love.
• Holistic Expertise: You are skilled in both visual and interaction design, and your work demonstrates a deep understanding of design principles and methodologies.
• Collaborative Leader: You thrive in an environment of continuous collaboration, clearly articulating the rationale driving decisions and working well with cross-functional teams to achieve goals.
• Inclusive Team Player: You value diverse perspectives and believe that innovation thrives in teams where different viewpoints come together to solve complex problems. You're ready to bring your unique experiences and background to our product teams.
• Compelling Communicator: You are an excellent communicator, able to articulate decisions clearly and persuasively.
• Characterized by Humility: You work quickly, with confidence, and without ego. We’re a startup and we run fast and lean – which means every individual on the Product Team has a high degree of ownership and potential impact. You have the opportunity (and are expected) to exercise leadership and expertise in your daily work, having strongly held and defensible ideas, and advocating for what you believe is right. But you’re also eager to hear differing opinions, adept at identifying and evaluating tradeoffs, willing to be proven wrong, and quick to walk through fire to help your fellow teammates.

Holistic Benefits

At Fringe, we care about lifestyle benefits. It’s our entire business! Our desire is to be able to support each and every Fringe employee inside and outside of work. Our benefits include:

• Competitive salary for all employees
• 95% Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for individuals and families
• 3% company match on 401(K) retirement contributions
• Unlimited paid time off (2 weeks minimum/year) as well as paid holidays, volunteer days, wellness days, and parental leave
• Stock options so you can participate in our success
• Company-sponsored happy hours and team events (in person and virtually)
• Your choice of monthly Fringe lifestyle benefits, ranging from Hulu, and Spotify to child care, meal delivery, fitness, and more.
• Free access to Doordash DashPass and Masterclass
• Company wellness program

About Fringe

We built Fringe to give companies a better way to show love and care to their people. Because we believe it’s the people who really matter. 

Companies exist because of the products and services they offer, but we believe the people within them should come first. At Fringe, this is the way we live.

Practically this means we hire people who care about their teammates just as much as (if not more than) themselves. We hire people who are genuine, humble, willing to learn, ready to teach, able to adapt, flex, collaborate, celebrate each other, win together and lose together.

We’re a startup, and that means we must be a courageous group. We solve problems all day, but we also mess up sometimes. We extend grace to each other, and we try again. We aren’t looking for perfect people. We’re looking for people who own their faults, play to their strengths, and have the courage to simply be the same person all the time. 

If that doesn’t sound like your cup of cold brew, no hard feelings. But that’s exactly who we are and what you can expect when you work at Fringe. 

Still interested? We’d love for you to apply.