--- title: 'Sr. UX Designer at Prosper' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/sr-ux-designer-prosper-san-francisco-c25y2azvbay7' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Sr. UX Designer at Prosper - **Company:** Prosper - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Compensation:** $135k–$169k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-07-31 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/prosper/e29b778a-8976-40a9-a8ba-e09e9fb4621e ## Job description ## Your role in our mission This position sits at the intersection of product design, technical platform work, and systems thinking. The Senior UX Designer on Foundations shapes the systems that ensure a consistent, secure, and accessible experience regardless of which product a customer is using. The work ranges from defining universal login patterns to designing unified payment flows, and it requires a designer who is as comfortable in an engineering conversation as in a design critique. The engineering team works in React-based frameworks and uses Figma alongside AI-assisted tooling, including Cursor and Figma MCP (Model Context Protocol). This role is not a handoff-oriented role. The expectation is active collaboration with engineering through implementation, supporting engineers in translating design decisions into production-quality work and catching fidelity issues before they compound. The team you’ll thrive with The Foundations team owns the core services that much of Prosper's fintech portfolio depends on, including authentication and payments. Because this work sits at the platform level, design decisions here often have reach across multiple products and teams. This role also contributes to UX initiatives outside the Foundations team, including component infrastructure work that spans the broader product organization. ## How you’ll make an impact - Lead end-to-end UX design for authentication, payments, and other core platform services, from initial discovery through delivery - Partner with researchers by providing prototypes, design thinking, and artifact support that enable effective research across the platform - Serve as a thought partner to product managers, engineers, and security stakeholders, shaping how problems are framed before solutions are proposed - Develop and maintain clear, thorough design documentation that supports async decision-making, legal review, and cross-team alignment - Navigate legal and compliance approval workflows for features that intersect with financial regulation, security requirements, or data handling - Define the design direction for Foundations features, including universal login and payment flows, and maintain the systems-level patterns that those features depend on - Collaborate with engineers through implementation, reviewing production output against design intent, and flagging fidelity issues early - Use AI-assisted tools, including Cursor and Figma MCP (Model Context Protocol), to reduce repetitive tasks and keep design-to-code workflows efficient - Contribute to cross-team UX initiatives, including component infrastructure work, that extend beyond Foundations - Mentor UX team members on AI-assisted workflows and research-to-design best practices ## Skills that will help you thrive - 8-10+ years of product design experience focusing on design systems, platform UX, or component libraries (or equivalent combination of education and experience) - Deep fluency with Figma, including prototyping, auto-layout, component architecture, and design token management - Hands-on experience in AI-assisted development environments such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools - Systems-oriented design approach: a track record of designing for scale, reuse, and consistency across multiple products or surfaces - Clear communication in cross-functional settings, with the ability to work effectively alongside engineering, product, and security stakeholders - Confidence operating in a fintech or similarly regulated product environment Extra credit - Experience with Figma MCP or other design-to-code pipeline tooling - Front-end fluency sufficient to read and discuss React-based code alongside engineers - Background in accessibility standards applicable to financial products - Prior work on internal tooling or developer-facing design surfaces ## Your roadmap to success First 30 Days Learn our products, design system, and compliance workflows while getting hands-on in Figma & Cursor to pair with engineering on initial tasks. By 60 Days Partner with Product & Engineering to ship medium-complexity projects, using our design system and clear documentation to keep UI consistent and ready for legal review. By 90 Days Own complex, end-to-end projects with high autonomy, contributing to cross-team strategy, design system infrastructure, and AI-assisted workflows. ## #LI-AR1 ## About Prosper ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Prosper is the first peer-to-peer lending marketplace in the U.S., now offering a comprehensive suite of personal loans, home equity products, and credit cards to help individuals achieve financial well-being. - **Entity Type**: Public (NASDAQ: UPST) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2005 - **Founders**: Not explicitly listed in provided sources ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Financial Services (Consumer Lending, Personal Finance) - **Target customers**: B2C – individual borrowers seeking personal loans, home equity financing, and credit-building cards; also individual and institutional investors who fund loans on the marketplace. - **Mission**: “To advance financial well-being, helping people thrive by meeting them where they are with simple, trusted, and affordable financial solutions.” [prosper.com](https://www.prosper.com/about) ## Products & Services - **Personal Loan Marketplace**: Fixed-rate, unsecured personal loans from $2,000 to $50,000 with next-day funding and no prepayment penalties. Borrowers are matched with investors. [prosper.com](https://www.prosper.com/) - **Prosper® Card**: Unsecured credit card designed for people with less-than-perfect credit, offering up to a $3,000 limit with no security deposit required. [prosper.com](https://www.prosper.com/) - **Home Equity Loans & HELOCs**: Fixed-rate home equity loans and variable-rate home equity lines of credit for homeowners. [prosper.com](https://www.prosper.com/about) - **Investing & IRAs**: Allows investors to fund personal loans on the platform, with an average historical return of 5.3%. Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) are also available. [prosper.com](https://www.prosper.com/) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not directly provided in search results (publicly traded; current market cap can be found on stock exchanges) - **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $212.5M (2024 estimate); net income of -$54.08 million (2024); total assets $877.03 million (2024). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/prosper-marketplace) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not provided in search results - **Growth Signals**: - Nearly 2.5 million customers served since 2005. [prosper.com](https://www.prosper.com/about) - Winner of Bankrate Best Personal Loan Award 2024. [prosper.com](https://www.prosper.com/about) - Received FICO® Decisions Financial Inclusion Award. [prosper.com](https://www.prosper.com/about) - Expanded product lineup with home equity loans and lines of credit, and the Prosper® Card. - Headcount of 338 employees, distributed across 10 countries. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/prosper-marketplace) ## Competitive Advantages - **First-mover in peer-to-peer lending**: Prosper pioneered the P2P lending model in the U.S. in 2005 and has built a large, trusted borrower and investor base. - **Comprehensive product suite**: Covers personal loans, home equity products, credit cards, and investing – all under one platform, serving customers at different stages of their financial journey. - **Awards and recognition**: Industry accolades (Bankrate, FICO) reinforce credibility and trust. - **Data-driven credit risk**: Robust analytics and AI tools for credit decisioning, as evidenced by roles like Data Scientist, Credit Risk Analytics. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/prosper) ## Strategic Focus - **Expanding home equity offerings**: Adding home equity loans and HELOCs to leverage the asset class. - **Growing the Prosper® Card**: Targeting consumers with less-than-perfect credit to build a path to better credit. - **Digital-first, customer-centric approach**: Emphasizing 100% online applications, transparency, and human customer service. - **Leveraging AI and analytics**: Using AI in hiring and credit risk to improve efficiency and accuracy. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Recognition**: Recognized as a “Best Place to Work in the Bay Area.” [prosper.com](https://www.prosper.com/jobs) - **Work Flexibility**: Hybrid model – 3 days remote per week for employees within 50 miles of San Francisco or Phoenix; required in-office on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Fully remote roles also available. [prosper.com](https://www.prosper.com/jobs) - **Total Rewards**: - Competitive pay, bonus program, stock options, and 401(k) with 5% employer match. - Health, dental, vision insurance with 100% employer-paid premiums for employees. - $1,000 annual wellness allowance, One Medical membership, Headspace/Calm access. - Generous parental leave, take-what-you-need vacation (exempt), 20 paid vacation/sick days for hourly employees, plus 8 paid holidays. - Monthly internet/phone stipend, pre-tax commuter assistance, and perks like RocketLawyer, UrbanSitter, Maven support. - Monthly on-site employee lunches and cultural events. [prosper.com](https://www.prosper.com/jobs) - **Hiring Process**: Initial phone/video screen, hiring manager interview, then stakeholder round. Technical roles may include a live coding or take-home exercise. AI tools are used to assist in reviewing applications. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/prosper) ## Sources 1. [prosper.com/about](https://www.prosper.com/about) 2. [prosper.com](https://www.prosper.com/) 3. [jobs.lever.co/prosper](https://jobs.lever.co/prosper) 4. 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