Staff Product Designer - Investment Products

Farther

$120K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of product design experience with complex digital products
  • Proven track record in designing investment or financial analytics platforms
  • Strong grasp of investment concepts and data mechanics
  • Proficiency in Figma and experience with scalable design systems
  • Systems thinking across multi-step workflows
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity to create structured solutions
  • Collaborative communicator with diverse stakeholder engagement

Responsibilities

  • Drive end-to-end product design with exceptional craft and speed
  • Translate complex investment workflows into intuitive user experiences
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to define product strategy
  • Design and validate solutions through rapid prototyping and user feedback
  • Create impactful high-fidelity designs and prototypes
  • Visualize dense financial data into clear dashboards and tools
  • Contribute to a scalable design system to enhance product consistency

Benefits

  • Opportunities for personal growth through learning sessions
  • Competitive compensation package
  • Collaborate with talented fintech professionals
  • Chance to shape your career in a fast-growing startup
  • Comprehensive health benefits plus retirement options
  • Unlimited PTO for work-life balance
  • A collaborative environment among product, design, and engineering teams
Full Job Description
The Role

We're looking for a Staff Product Designer specializing in investment products, responsible for shaping end-to-end experiences for Wealth Advisors and client-facing tools. This role translates complex financial systems into clear, intuitive, and high-performance user experiences.

You'll thrive in ambiguity, work at high velocity, and drive problems from discovery through polished execution - collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, and Research to define solutions, rapidly prototype and validate ideas, and shape product direction. Strong expertise in investment workflows, data-heavy interfaces, and design systems is essential, along with a passion for AI-enabled workflows and design-to-code efficiency.

Your Impact
  • Drive end-to-end product design across discovery, definition, prototyping, validation, and final execution with high velocity and exceptional craft
  • Shape design direction for complex investment workflows - portfolios, order execution, asset allocation, performance, and risk - translating them into clear, actionable user experiences
  • Partner closely with Product and Engineering to define strategy, surface constraints, and drive high-impact investment product decisions
  • Design and validate solutions through rapid prototyping, experimentation, and structured user feedback loops
  • Create high-fidelity designs, interactive prototypes, and decision-driving artifacts that directly influence product direction
  • Transform dense financial and market data into clear, usable visualizations, dashboards, and decision-support tools
  • Contribute to and evolve a scalable design system that supports speed, consistency, and product complexity
  • Leverage AI, automation, and modern design tooling to accelerate exploration, iteration, and production readiness
  • Elevate design quality and thinking across the organization through critique, feedback, and informal mentorship
  • Act as a strategic thought partner to Product and Engineering - helping shape roadmap priorities within the investment domain
  • Clearly articulate design rationale grounded in user behavior, financial logic, and business outcomes

The Ideal Match
  • 8+ years of product design experience with deep expertise in complex, data-rich digital products
  • Proven track record designing investment, trading, wealth management, or financial analytics platforms - institutional or retail
  • Strong understanding of investment concepts including market data and pricing mechanics, order types and execution flows, portfolio construction and asset allocation, and performance, risk, and return analytics
  • Expert-level proficiency in Figma (components, auto layout, variants, prototyping) and experience evolving design systems at scale
  • Strong systems thinker who can operate across multi-step workflows and interconnected product surfaces
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and rapidly translating loosely defined problems into structured, testable solutions
  • High-agency collaborator who thrives in fast-paced startup environments and can independently drive work from concept to execution
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to tailor narratives across users, engineers, and executive stakeholders

Bonus Points
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted design workflows, no-code tools, and design-to-code pipelines
  • Experience mentoring or informally leading other designers in high-growth environments
  • Experience working with real-time market data, trading infrastructure, or institutional investment systems
  • Background in designing for quantitative or analytical user personas - traders, portfolio managers, or RIAs

Why Join Us
  • Learn & grow through book clubs, seminars, and peer learning sessions
  • Competitive comp package that rewards impact
  • Work alongside some of the brightest minds in fintech
  • Ground-floor opportunity at a fast-scaling startup
  • Chart your own growth path as we expand
  • Full health benefits + 401(k) matching & Roth IRA options
  • Unlimited PTO
  • An amazing collaborative atmosphere between product, design, and engineering to solve hard problems together

Ready to disrupt wealth management? Let's talk!

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