Product Designer, Experience

About the role

We're hiring a Product Designer to join our Experience Team. The team owns the quality, coherence, and UI/UX differentiation of Numeric's product surface area. We work across product design, design systems, code-based prototyping, and front-end implementation to make sure the product feels clear, dense, elegant, and trustworthy.

Responsibilities

• Own product design for complex workflows in our financial operating system, from early exploration through implementation.
• Work closely with engineers and PMs to clarify ambiguous product problems and turn them into buildable interaction models.
• Create prototypes, reference screens, interaction specs, and implementation notes as needed — using whatever artifact best moves the work forward.
• Build or direct code-based prototypes where useful, including with tools like Claude Code.
• Partner with engineers during build to refine behavior, states, edge cases, density, polish, and product quality.
• Help identify and resolve rough edges across the product before they harden into product debt.
• Contribute to user story-led work, higher-fidelity refinements, and the reconciliation between prototype, production, and final product quality.
• Help define reusable patterns for review surfaces, object inspectors, inbox tasks, tables, panels, workflows, and AI-enabled product interactions.
• Work with our design-system lead on component adoption and with engineering on prototype-to-production details.
• Bring a strong point of view on craft, usability, and product clarity while staying pragmatic about what needs to ship now.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product design experience, ideally in a startup or high-ownership product environment.
• Strong visual, interaction, and product craft.
• Experience designing complex, technical, data-heavy, or workflow-heavy products.
• Ability to reason through edge cases, states, density, hierarchy, and product behavior.
• Comfort working independently with limited ceremony and proactively pulling in feedback.
• Experience partnering closely with engineers and PMs through implementation.
• Comfort prototyping quickly and using whatever tool is right for the problem.
• Experience or strong interest in code-based design workflows using tools like Claude Code, or similar.
• Ability to visually communicate a plan in low fidelity and create high-fidelity references when the work requires it.
• Strong written and verbal communication. You should be able to explain not just what you designed, but why it should work.
• Low ego and high agency. You can own a messy problem without needing it to be perfectly scoped.

Bonus points

• Experience designing financial, accounting, data, developer, AI, or enterprise workflow products.
• Experience designing interfaces for tables, records, logs, approvals, review queues, automation, or data transformation.
• Experience building lightweight prototypes in React / TypeScript or modifying existing front-end code.
• Experience working with design systems as a living code/product system, not just a Figma library.
• Experience at an early-stage company where designers had to operate with high ownership and low process.

What We’re Looking For

• You are a deeply curious person.
• You like working directly with engineers.
• You are comfortable when the first artifact is a prototype, screenshot, branch, Loom, or Linear issue.
• You can take an ambiguous product area and make it more understandable.
• You care about craft but do not need weeks of isolated design time to produce value.
• You like dense, information-rich interfaces.
• You want to help invent the product surface for modern accounting software.
• You are have experience in AI, but are nuanced about where & how it’s applied.
• You can move between “what is this system doing?” (being able to reason about the underlying data model) and “what should this exact panel look like?”

Bonus points

• You are experience in AI, but are nuanced about where & how it’s applied.
• You can move between “what is this system doing?” (being able to reason about the underlying data model) and “what should this exact panel look like?”

What You Might Be a Fit For

• You are a deeply curious person.
• You like working directly with engineers.
• You are comfortable when the first artifact is a prototype, screenshot, branch, Loom, or Linear issue.
• You can take an ambiguous product area and make it more understandable.
• You care about craft but do not need weeks of isolated design time to produce value.
• You like dense, information-rich interfaces.
• You want to help invent the product surface for modern accounting software.
• You are have experience in AI, but are nuanced about where & how it’s applied.
• You can move between “what is this system doing?” (being able to reason about the underlying data model) and “what should this exact panel look like?”

What You Might Not Be a Fit For

• You need a predefined, highly structured design process to do your best work.
• You prefer to stay far away from implementation.
• You want to work only in Figma.
• You are uncomfortable with technical product concepts.
• You mostly want to own brand or marketing design.
• You prefer long research cycles before making.
• You are not at all interested in accounting, finance, data, or enterprise workflows.