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Senior Staff Product Designer roles rank among the most sponsorship-friendly positions in tech. Companies filing H-1B visa and O-1 visa petitions for this level expect a portfolio demonstrating systems-level design leadership, cross-functional influence, and measurable product outcomes, not just craft. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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Get Access To All JobsAWM – Designer – Vice President, Product Design
Wealth Management
The Wealth Management Design team is responsible for delivering tools and products empowering clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. We are looking for designers who can dive into complex problems to deliver intuitive and impactful products, while focusing on cultivating a culture of collaboration, exploration, and growth.
Role Overview – Onboarding / Account Opening
The Product Design Vice President will lead design for the Onboarding / Account Opening experience, shaping the digital journeys that help Wealth clients, advisors, and service teams open accounts with clarity, confidence, and efficiency.
This role supports the end-to-end design process for account opening workflows, from discovery and journey mapping through wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready designs. The VP will partner closely with product, engineering, operations, legal, and compliance teams to simplify complex financial, regulatory, and operational requirements into intuitive experiences that reduce friction, improve completion rates, and meet the high standards expected across Wealth Management.
Key Responsibilities
- Design Leadership & Execution (Onboarding / Account Opening). Lead the end-to-end design strategy and execution for onboarding and account opening experiences, guiding teams in creating user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs that drive conversion, reduce friction, and meet regulatory requirements.
- Prototyping & Experience Visualization. Oversee the development of interactive prototypes to communicate complex onboarding journeys, enabling stakeholder alignment, usability validation, and executive decision-making.
- Data-Driven Optimization. Drive continuous improvement of onboarding funnels through data analysis, user research, and experimentation. Translate insights into prioritized design initiatives that improve completion rates, client satisfaction, and operational efficiency.
- Cross-Functional Leadership. Partner closely with product, engineering, legal, compliance, and operations teams to align on requirements, constraints, and trade-offs. Ensure seamless implementation of design solutions within highly regulated environments.
- Team Leadership & Quality Oversight. Manage and mentor designers, fostering a high-performing team focused on craft excellence. Provide guidance and critique to ensure strong typography, layout, accessibility, and overall design quality across all deliverables.
- Simplification of Complex Workflows. Drive the translation of complex financial, regulatory, and operational requirements into intuitive, client-friendly experiences. Advocate for clarity, transparency, and ease of use throughout the onboarding journey.
Qualifications & Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, or a related field; advanced degree a plus.
- Experience designing complex enterprise applications, with an interest in financial services or consumer-facing digital products.
- 8+ years of experience in product design or related disciplines, with demonstrated success leading teams and delivering complex, large-scale digital products.
- Expert-level proficiency across the full human-centered design lifecycle, including research, experience strategy, journey mapping, information architecture, UX/UI design, usability testing, and accessibility.
- Proven portfolio of shipped products demonstrating design leadership, strategic impact, and measurable business and user outcomes.
- Strong executive presence with an entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable operating in complex, fast-paced, and commercially driven environments.
- Advanced expertise with design tools (e.g., Figma) and a track record of shaping, scaling, and governing design systems.
- Extensive experience working in agile environments and collaborating closely with product management and engineering teams at scale.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build strong relationships across senior leadership and cross-functional partners.
- Experience hiring, managing, and developing high-performing design teams, including coaching, mentorship, and performance management.
We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
Holiday & Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.
Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE Vice President
OFFICE LOCATION(S) New York
JOB FUNCTION UI/UX Design
DIVISION Asset & Wealth Management
SALARY RANGE USD 115,000 - 270,000
AWM – Designer – Vice President, Product Design
Wealth Management
The Wealth Management Design team is responsible for delivering tools and products empowering clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. We are looking for designers who can dive into complex problems to deliver intuitive and impactful products, while focusing on cultivating a culture of collaboration, exploration, and growth.
Role Overview – Onboarding / Account Opening
The Product Design Vice President will lead design for the Onboarding / Account Opening experience, shaping the digital journeys that help Wealth clients, advisors, and service teams open accounts with clarity, confidence, and efficiency.
This role supports the end-to-end design process for account opening workflows, from discovery and journey mapping through wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready designs. The VP will partner closely with product, engineering, operations, legal, and compliance teams to simplify complex financial, regulatory, and operational requirements into intuitive experiences that reduce friction, improve completion rates, and meet the high standards expected across Wealth Management.
Key Responsibilities
- Design Leadership & Execution (Onboarding / Account Opening). Lead the end-to-end design strategy and execution for onboarding and account opening experiences, guiding teams in creating user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs that drive conversion, reduce friction, and meet regulatory requirements.
- Prototyping & Experience Visualization. Oversee the development of interactive prototypes to communicate complex onboarding journeys, enabling stakeholder alignment, usability validation, and executive decision-making.
- Data-Driven Optimization. Drive continuous improvement of onboarding funnels through data analysis, user research, and experimentation. Translate insights into prioritized design initiatives that improve completion rates, client satisfaction, and operational efficiency.
- Cross-Functional Leadership. Partner closely with product, engineering, legal, compliance, and operations teams to align on requirements, constraints, and trade-offs. Ensure seamless implementation of design solutions within highly regulated environments.
- Team Leadership & Quality Oversight. Manage and mentor designers, fostering a high-performing team focused on craft excellence. Provide guidance and critique to ensure strong typography, layout, accessibility, and overall design quality across all deliverables.
- Simplification of Complex Workflows. Drive the translation of complex financial, regulatory, and operational requirements into intuitive, client-friendly experiences. Advocate for clarity, transparency, and ease of use throughout the onboarding journey.
Qualifications & Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, or a related field; advanced degree a plus.
- Experience designing complex enterprise applications, with an interest in financial services or consumer-facing digital products.
- 8+ years of experience in product design or related disciplines, with demonstrated success leading teams and delivering complex, large-scale digital products.
- Expert-level proficiency across the full human-centered design lifecycle, including research, experience strategy, journey mapping, information architecture, UX/UI design, usability testing, and accessibility.
- Proven portfolio of shipped products demonstrating design leadership, strategic impact, and measurable business and user outcomes.
- Strong executive presence with an entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable operating in complex, fast-paced, and commercially driven environments.
- Advanced expertise with design tools (e.g., Figma) and a track record of shaping, scaling, and governing design systems.
- Extensive experience working in agile environments and collaborating closely with product management and engineering teams at scale.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build strong relationships across senior leadership and cross-functional partners.
- Experience hiring, managing, and developing high-performing design teams, including coaching, mentorship, and performance management.
We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
Holiday & Vacation Policies
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
Health Services
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
Fitness
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
Child Care & Family Care
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.
Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE Vice President
OFFICE LOCATION(S) New York
JOB FUNCTION UI/UX Design
DIVISION Asset & Wealth Management
SALARY RANGE USD 115,000 - 270,000
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Senior Staff Product Designer
Lead with design systems and scope
H-1B specialty occupation requires a directly related degree. Framing your experience around systems-level work, design systems, multi-platform architecture, org-wide standards, signals the specialized knowledge USCIS expects at this seniority level.
Quantify your cross-functional impact
Sponsors filing your petition need to justify a specialty occupation claim. Concrete outcomes like retention improvements, conversion lifts, or engineering hours saved give immigration counsel the specificity required to build a strong LCA and I-129.
Clarify your degree field early
HCI, graphic design, and fine arts degrees can qualify for H-1B if the role requires that specific field. Flag any degree mismatch upfront so your employer's attorney can assess whether a combination of education and experience resolves it before filing.
Position yourself for O-1A if H-1B lottery fails
Senior Staff designers with published work, speaking credits, awards, or press coverage may qualify for O-1A extraordinary ability. Document these signals now, they're the evidence base if you need a lottery-independent path after an unsuccessful registration.
Target companies with repeat H-1B filings for designers
Not all tech employers sponsor at this level. Prioritize companies with a documented history of H-1B approvals for product design roles. DOL LCA disclosure data confirms whether a specific employer has filed for comparable positions before.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified sponsoring employers
Migrate Mate surfaces Senior Staff Product Designer roles at companies actively willing to sponsor. Filtering by visa type saves weeks of outreach to employers who won't sponsor at all, letting you focus on conversations that can actually move forward.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Senior Staff Product Designer role qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Yes, in most cases. Senior Staff Product Designer is generally treated as a specialty occupation because it requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field, typically HCI, interaction design, industrial design, or a closely related discipline. The key is that the role must require the degree, not merely prefer it. Employers should ensure the job description reflects this requirement explicitly before filing.
What degree field do I need for H-1B sponsorship as a Senior Staff Product Designer?
USCIS accepts degrees in human-computer interaction, interaction design, graphic design, industrial design, and sometimes computer science or cognitive science when the coursework directly supports the role. A general fine arts degree with no design specialization can create problems. If your degree field is borderline, three years of progressive, relevant work experience can substitute for one year of education under the degree equivalency rule.
How often does USCIS approve H-1B petitions for product design roles?
Approval rates for product design H-1B visa petitions are generally strong when the job description clearly articulates the specialty occupation requirement. The bigger obstacle at this stage is the H-1B lottery, where selection rates have hovered around 20 to 25 percent in recent registration cycles. Companies with cap-exempt status, universities, nonprofits affiliated with research, can bypass the lottery entirely, which is worth factoring into your employer search.
Can I get sponsored as a Senior Staff Product Designer without winning the H-1B lottery?
Yes. The O-1A visa for extraordinary ability is the most practical alternative for designers at this seniority level. USCIS evaluates criteria including original contributions of major significance, published material about your work, judging or reviewing others' work, and critical employment in distinguished organizations. Senior Staff designers who have shipped widely recognized products, spoken at industry conferences, or been featured in design press often have more qualifying evidence than they realize.
Where can I find Senior Staff Product Designer jobs that offer visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to find these roles. It surfaces Senior Staff Product Designer positions specifically at employers willing to sponsor, so you're not wasting time on applications that will stall at the visa question. At this seniority level, sponsorship conversations happen early, often in the first recruiter screen, so targeting verified sponsoring companies from the start is the most efficient approach.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Senior Staff Product Designer jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.