Principal Product Designer, Coach

SoFi

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CASeattle, WA
Salary
$192,000–$330,000 / yr
Posted
70 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $261k
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This role pays more than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $162,000–$222,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $261k versus about $192k for comparable roles.

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About SoFi

SoFi Technologies is a fintech company offering student and personal loans, mortgages, credit cards, investing, banking, and insurance products, positioning itself as a one-stop financial services platform. Industry: Financial Technology & Personal Finance

SoFi currently has 36 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $153,600–$258,500 across 36 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Principal Product Designer, Coach

As a Principal Product Designer (IC6) on SoFi’s cutting-edge team developing SoFi Coach, you will lead the design and execution of an AI-native layer across all SoFi products, transforming them into proactive personal wealth managers. Your daily tasks include defining interaction patterns for conversational interfaces that manage debt, investments, and optimize wealth, creating functional prototypes using AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor to demonstrate innovative features to stakeholders and engineering teams. You will also collaborate with core product and engineering teams to accelerate their AI roadmaps without causing friction, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in AI implementations while evolving SoFi’s internal design workflow for AI-enabled projects. Ideal candidates have over 10 years of experience as a Product Designer or Technical Founder, mastery of modern AI development tools, strategic influence at executive levels, and technical expertise in software architecture and agentic systems, with a passion for making meaningful financial impacts on everyday people.

What you'll do

  • Lead the design and execution of SoFi Coach's interaction patterns and UX strategy.
  • Create functional prototypes using AI-native workflows to demonstrate "magic moments" to stakeholders.
  • Partner with core engineering teams to accelerate their AI roadmaps without causing friction.
  • Challenge the status quo by pushing engineering teams to achieve more ambitious AI implementations.
  • Help evolve SoFi’s internal AI-enabled design workflow, benefiting the entire organization.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in Product Design, Technical Founding, or Design-Engineering.
  • Proven track record driving 0-to-1 initiatives for high-scale consumer products.
  • Mastery of AI tooling like Claude Code, Cursor, and similar environments.
  • Experience influencing cross-functional strategy at the executive level.
  • Strong technical literacy in software architecture, APIs, and agentic systems.
  • Portfolio showcasing functional projects built or contributed to using code and AI tools.

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