About the RoleFinancial infrastructure for autonomous agents is a design problem as much as an engineering one - the surfaces we build determine whether developers trust the system, understand what's happening, and can move fast without breaking things. This role sits at the center of that challenge: shaping how complex, high-stakes transaction flows become interfaces that feel inevitable. The right person is a systems thinker who's equally comfortable pushing pixels and pushing back on product assumptions.
What You Will DoOwn the end-to-end design process across Sapiom's core product - from early discovery and requirements gathering with Product, through iterative visual design, to guiding implementation with Engineering. You'll work across the hardest UX challenges in agentic commerce: spend controls, policy configuration, real-time risk visibility, developer-facing APIs, and the dashboards that make autonomous financial activity legible to the humans overseeing it. You'll help define Sapiom's design language as it matures - knowing when to use the system, when to evolve it, and when to break it deliberately. The goal: software that earns developer trust on first use and deepens it every time.
Responsibilities- Own the full design process across product surfaces - from FigJam workshops and Figma mockups to production-quality prototypes built with v0, Cursor, or Claude Code - delivering the right artifact at the right moment.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to shape strategic direction, not just execute on spec - bringing design thinking into roadmap conversations early.
- Define and evolve Sapiom's design system with precision - knowing when convention serves users and when a new pattern is necessary.
- Ship interfaces for genuinely hard problems: agentic spend authorization, policy enforcement UX, real-time transaction monitoring, and developer-facing configuration flows.
- Advocate across the company for design quality and consistency - establishing shared standards and raising the bar for how Sapiom's product looks and feels.
- Nurture a design culture as an early team member - giving and receiving feedback with candor, mentoring where needed, and building the environment you want to work in.
Requirements- Proven track record designing interactive products in complex technical domains - developer tooling, infrastructure software, fintech, or security - where the users are sophisticated and the stakes are high.
- Exceptional visual, UI, and interaction craft - with the judgment to know when to follow the design system and when to push it forward.
- Comfortable with modern design tooling across the full spectrum: collaborative workshops (FigJam), high-fidelity design (Figma), and production/prototype code (v0, Cursor, or similar).
- Strong written and verbal communicator - able to articulate a design perspective with conviction, seek feedback proactively, and influence peers without authority.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate in fast-moving engineering environments where decisions get made quickly and the product ships continuously.
- Capable of holding a point of view under pressure while remaining genuinely open to better arguments - no ego about the work, full investment in the outcome.
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and contributing to a function that's still being defined - this is an early role with significant ownership.
