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# Head of Product Design at Tilt Finance

- **Company:** Tilt Finance
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $250k–$300k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tilthq/f0365550-18cb-4515-9222-92ed7bf323fa

## Job description

Join the Tilt team At Tilt, we see a side of people that traditional lenders miss. Our mobile-first products and machine learning-powered credit models look beyond credit scores, using over 250 real-time financial signals to recognize real potential. With millions of customers worldwide, we're not just changing how people access financial products — we're creating a new credit system that backs the working, whatever they're working toward. The opportunity: Head of [Product] Design Tilt is looking for a Head of [Product] Design — an existing team of 6 designers and 1 researcher embedded across the pods building Cash Advance, Credit Card, Thrive, and the rest of our everyday money products. You'll report directly to the Head of Product and own the craft, quality, and user and business impact of design across everything our users touch. The foundations are in place: a recent rebrand, an evolved design system, and embedded, strong designers. What hasn't been built yet is a design practice that consistently shapes what we build, not just how it looks, and is known across the enterprise.

## How you'll make an impact

- Lead the design function: Set the vision, standards, and strategy for product design at Tilt in a manner that fits Tilt’s strategic objectives. Set the bar for craft and hold it across every surface we ship.
- Operate with urgency for our users: Set ambitious timelines, but know when to afford space. We learn best from product in customers’ hands, and are comfortable with ambiguity.
- Grow the team’s impact: Manage, mentor, and develop a team of 6 product designers and 1 researcher — and own hiring as we scale. Build the career paths, deliver regular feedback, and rituals that builds stronger designers and ensures top performers stay. Celebrate and showcase work at company-wide rituals, not just among the Design team.
- Move design upstream: Push design into problem definition and roadmap-setting, not just execution. Partner with Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional leadership to build better operating systems.
- Champion the user for the enterprise: Be the vocal, evidence-based advocate for the people who use our products. Bring research, verbatims, and influence into decisions across credit, growth, engineering, and more.
- Own how we learn: Build Tilt's research practice — today getting started with our first researcher — into a durable capability that gets the team real signal on real users.
- Scale the design system: Steward the Tilt Design System — from illustrations, type, color, copy, and more — as products in their own right, so a growing multi-product surface stays coherent.
- Put agents to work: Hold an informed point of view on where AI genuinely improves design work, and turn it into practice rather than pilots. Own automation efforts to unleash the Design & broader delivery team on highest value work.
- Partner with Creative: Work closely with Marketing's Creative team so product experience and brand expression reinforce each other — make the seam invisible between the disciplines.

## Why you're a great fit

- Depth in consumer product design: 8+ years designing and shipping consumer-facing mobile products, ideally in fintech or another domain with real complexity sitting behind a simple surface.
- Proven people leadership: 5+ years managing designers, with a track record of building teams, raising the bar on craft, and developing people into stronger designers than you found them.
- A strategic partner, not a service provider: You've operated at the leadership table — shaping roadmap and strategy alongside Product and Engineering peers, not receiving requirements from them. You’re interested in the business mechanics and financial impact you’ll have, in addition to our user.
- A portfolio with consequences: Work that shows craft and outcome. You can walk through the user problem, the decisions you made, and what changed in the business.
- Evidence-driven, but comfortable in ambiguity: You use research and data to sharpen design judgment rather than substitute for it, and you know how to get signal when there's no dedicated research team yet.
- Clear at the exec level: You can make a design argument to a CEO or a credit lead without translating it into design jargon first.
- Fluent in modern tooling: Deep in Figma, and genuinely curious about where AI belongs in a design workflow.

Our Interview Process

- Initial recruiter call: A conversation to learn about your experience and what you're looking for in your next role.
- Hiring manager interview: A deeper discussion about your background and approach to solving challenges.
- Skills panel: Meet with Tilt team members to discuss your expertise and problem-solving approach through real-world scenarios.
- Portfolio and leadership review: Walk the team through work you've led and how you build design organisations.
- Leadership conversation: A conversation with a leader to discuss our mission and how you could contribute to it (and how we can help you achieve your career goals along the way).

Don’t meet every qualification? We care about potential over your past. If you're bringing ambition and drive to what we're building, we want to hear from you.

## What you'll get at Tilt

- Virtual-first teamwork: The Tilt team is collaborating across 14 countries, 12 time zones, and counting. You’ll get started with a WFH office reimbursement.
- Competitive pay: We're big on potential, and it's reflected in our competitive compensation packages and generous equity.
- Complete support: Find flexible health plans at every premium level, and substantial subsidies that stand up to global standards.
- Visibility is yours: You can count on direct exposure to our leadership team — we’re a team where good ideas travel quickly.
- Paid global onsites: Magic happens IRL: we gather twice yearly to reconnect over shared meals or kayaking adventures. (We’ve visited Vail, San Diego, and Mexico City, to name a few.)
- Impact is recognized: Growth opportunities follow your contributions, not rigid promotion timelines.

The Tilt Way We're looking for people who chase excellence and impact. Those who stand behind their work, celebrating the wins and learning from the missteps equally. We foster an environment where every voice is valued and mutual respect is non-negotiable — brilliant jerks need not apply. We're in this together, working to expand access to fair credit and prove that people are incredible. When you join us, it's not just another day at the [virtual] office, you're helping millions of hardworking people reach better financial futures.

You’re pushing ahead in your career? We can get behind that. Join us in building the credit system that people deserve.

## About Tilt Finance

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tilt is a financial technology company that uses machine learning to analyze over 250 non-traditional financial signals to provide cash advances and credit cards to people overlooked by traditional credit scoring.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, backed by Sequoia Capital)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Warren Hogarth (Co-Founder & CEO), Jan Chong (Co-Founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services, Consumer Fintech, Alternative Credit
- **Target customers**: B2C — underbanked and credit-invisible consumers in the U.S., Brazil, India, the Philippines, and Mexico who lack reliable access to fair credit.
- **Mission**: "We're building a new credit system to prove it." — Backing the hard work people do, whatever they're working toward, by expanding access to cash and credit.

## Products & Services
- **Cash Advance**: Mobile-first cash advance product that provides instant access to funds directly to a bank account with automated, flexible repayment. Evaluates creditworthiness using real-time income and spending data, not just credit scores.
- **Thrive Line of Credit**: A credit-building line of credit product that rewards consistent on-time payments with offer increases and larger lines.
- **Petal Credit Cards**: Credit cards designed for people with thin or no credit history, using machine learning underwriting to assess financial health.
- **NIRA**: A credit product serving the Indian market, built in collaboration with local financial institutions.
- **Cashalo**: A credit product serving the Philippine market, embedded in local financial ecosystems.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed; named by Forbes as one of the "Next Billion-Dollar Startups" in 2024.
- **Key Metric**: Over $1 billion in total cash and credit accessed via the platform; over 5 million customers; 450,000+ 5-star reviews.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital (lead investor), Blisce, Icon Ventures.
- **Growth Signals**: Ranked #65 on Inc. 5000’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies list (third year in a row in the top 100). Named Forbes America's Best Startup Employers (2023). Thrive product was named Fast Company's Next Big Things in Tech (2022). Active expansion into Brazil (hiring Head of Credit for Brazil), India (NIRA), Philippines (Cashalo), and Mexico.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Underwriting Engine**: Uses 250+ non-traditional signals of financial health (real-time income, spending patterns, gig economy activity) rather than legacy credit scores, enabling it to serve tens of millions of people that traditional lenders decline.
- **Machine Learning & Data Moat**: The scale of data (over 5M customers) creates a significant feedback loop for model accuracy — the more people they approve and track, the smarter their risk models become.
- **Multi-Product Ecosystem**: Not a single product lender; they offer cash advances, lines of credit, and credit cards, allowing them to graduate customers upward as their financial health improves, increasing lifetime value.
- **Global Expansion First-Mover**: Actively launching localized credit products in Brazil, India, Philippines, and Mexico, which gives them a head start in underbanked markets where incumbents are slow to innovate.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global Expansion**: Building country-specific credit products (NIRA in India, Cashalo in Philippines) and hiring leadership for new markets like Brazil and Mexico.
- **Agentic AI Integration**: Hiring an "Agentic AI Lead (Business Transformation)" — suggesting they are building AI agents to automate credit decisions, customer support, and risk operations.
- **Product Deepening**: Expanding from cash advances and credit cards into broader lines of credit and larger loan products as customers build history with the platform.
- **Regulatory & Compliance Scaling**: Hiring corporate counsel, compliance leads for new geographies (Mexico, Brazil), reflecting a push into regulated financial landscapes.

## Why Work Here
- **Virtual-first culture with global team**: Collaborating across 14 countries, 12 time zones. Remote-first but with twice-yearly global onsites ("Magic happens IRL: we gather twice a year to reconnect over a shared meal or a kayaking adventure").
- **Low-meeting culture**: "Give us the data-driven recommendation on Slack over the meeting and multi slide deck." — emphasizes asynchronous communication and deep work.
- **Full health coverage**: Flexible plans at every premium level with substantial subsidies that "stand up to global standards."
- **Home office subsidy**: Funded to get the gear you need.
- **Flexible time off**: Unlimited PTO with an emphasis on taking time to "stay at the top of your game."
- **Competitive pay**: "Above-market compensation" with growth opportunities following contributions, not rigid promotion timelines.
- **Diverse backgrounds welcome**: Explicitly states no prior experience in consumer finance required — they value diverse, unique backgrounds. All backgrounds welcome.
- **Feedback culture**: "Up, down, sideways — we help each other grow with honest, constructive conversations."
- **Global hiring**: Active open roles across the U.S. (remote), Brazil (remote), India (hybrid Bengaluru), Philippines (hybrid Manila), Mexico (remote), Australia (remote), and the EU (remote).

## Sources
1. [tilt.com](https://tilt.com/)
2. [tilt.com/about](https://tilt.com/about)
3. [tilt.com/careers](https://tilt.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/tilthq](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tilthq)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/empower)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/tilthq](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tilthq)

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