Lead Product Designer

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design for initiatives end to end — research, UX, UI, prototyping, and handoff.
• Build interactive prototypes in Figma, Magic Patterns, or with Claude/Cursor when code is the fastest path — validating ideas, aligning stakeholders, and pressure-testing flows before engineering invests heavily.
• Coordinate design across squads: run design syncs, manage dependencies, keep projects moving.
• Collaborate closely with PMs, engineers, and stakeholders to define problems, shape solutions, and deliver high-quality work.
• Develop real working knowledge of private markets and client workflows so decisions are grounded in understanding, not assumptions.
• Use AI-assisted tools thoughtfully for research synthesis, exploration, and prototyping — so you spend more time on the parts that require judgment, taste, and craft.
• Identify user- and system-level opportunities to improve usability, performance, and consistency.
• Improve how the team works: design systems, tooling, and process.
• Mentor designers (IC2 and below) through feedback, reviews, and 1:1 coaching.
• Support recruiting and begin operating as a hiring manager for junior design roles.
• Communicate design decisions clearly, framing the work in terms of user value and business outcomes.

Who You Are

• 5+ years in product design with increasing responsibility over time. You've led projects and/or squads through full design cycles, discovery to delivery.
• Genuinely curious about complex financial topics — excited to learn fund structures, deal flow, portfolio reporting, and how money actually moves, even if you're not an expert yet.
• Comfortable building interactive prototypes (ideally Figma and Magic Patterns) and willing to use Claude and Cursor for code-backed prototypes when that's fastest.
• Not an engineer, but you stay unblocked by code more often than not.
• Pragmatic and experiment-friendly: multiple options, early validation, evidence-led.
• Strong systems thinking and a track record of scalable, maintainable interfaces.
• Strong collaboration with engineers, PMs, and stakeholders — clarity and flexibility both.
• Experience with design systems and component libraries.
• Strong communication and storytelling, 1:1 and in front of larger groups.
• Experience mentoring or managing junior designers, even informally.
• Familiarity with fintech or private markets is a strong plus.