Technical Lead Product Designer - AI Private Banker

About Nu

Nu is the leading digital bank in Latin America, serving 135 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. The company has been leading an industry transformation by leveraging data and proprietary technology to develop innovative products and services.

Guided by its mission to fight complexity and empower people, Nu caters to customers’ complete financial journey, promoting financial access and advancement with responsible lending and transparency. The company is powered by an efficient and scalable business model that combines low cost to serve with growing returns.

Nu’s impact has been recognized in multiple awards, including Time 100 Most Influential Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Banks.

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About the role

We’re building the next evolution of Nubank: an AI-powered private banker that helps millions of people navigate their financial lives with intelligence, empathy, and trust.

As Sr Design Manager, you’ll lead a team of designers and writers crafting this experience - shaping how customers interact with our AI advisor, how trust is earned, and how complex insights become simple, actionable, and human. But You’re no longer just building for the AI Private Banker vertical - you’re establishing the foundational experience systems that will power AI across Nubank, while ensuring alignment with the broader Magic App vision (Nubank’s next-generation unified app experience).

In this context, you’ll help define the design vision, systems, cultural anchors and rituals that make this product feel unmistakably Nubank: clear, kind, and empowering - bridging product-specific excellence with company-wide coherence.

Once here, you will:

Be a technical reference for the team, seeking to adapt and replicate the best practices in the market, increasing the team’s bar;

Build links with other business areas at all levels of the organization, influencing business decisions advocating for user-centered design;

Inspire fellow product designers, by creating a high bar of quality design work;

Establish and promote a healthy team culture that works hand in hand with cross-functional partners and design teams in other Nubank offices;

Push the boundaries of your team’s UX/UI/visual execution and help Nubank challenge the status quo.

Requirements

Solid expertise in Product Design (UI, UX, and Research);

Experience in digital products;

Excellent English: verbal and written communication skills;

Ability to work well in a highly collaborative and cross-functional team;

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment;

Ability to influence prioritization in an agile environment. Adapt to shifting priorities and evolving stakeholder’s needs with openness and agility.

Benefits

Opportunity of earning equity at Nu

Medical Insurance

Dental and Vision Insurance

Life Insurance and AD&D

Extended maternity and paternity leaves

Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses

NuLanguage - Our language learning program

NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program

Extended maternity and paternity leaves

401K

Saving Plans - Health Saving Account and Flexible Spending Account

Work-from-home Allowance

Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable.

Work Model for this Role

Hybrid 2-3 times/week: Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week, on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration. For more details, visit https://building.nubank.com/nu-hybrid-work-model/

Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence–enabled tools, such as automated interview transcription and analysis, to support the evaluation process. Artificial intelligence is not used to make final hiring decisions; all decisions are made by human reviewers.