Product Designer

Staff Product Designer, AICompensation: 180,000 - 275,000 + .05 - .2 EquityAI Compliance Platform NYC, On-Site About the RoleWe're a fast-growing, well-funded AI compliance platform helping regulated financial firms automate the work their teams used to do manually—communications monitoring, trade surveillance, marketing reviews, employee compliance, and firm oversight—all in one intelligent platform. The firms that used to spend hundreds of hours on regulatory busywork now do it in minutes.We've grown significantly over the past year and the product is working: revenue is strong, customers are real and paying, and we're scaling fast. Now we're hiring our first Staff Product Designer to make great design a core competitive advantage.You'll work directly with our Head of Product and CTO to define interaction quality across multiple product lines. This is not a pixel-pusher role—it's a design leadership seat for someone who thinks in systems, communicates in outcomes, and wants to shape how an entire industry navigates compliance.What You'll DoOwn end-to-end UX across our compliance product lines—from first login to full workflow completionDesign executive dashboards, workflow automation flows, and audit-ready interfaces for compliance officers and their teams at financial firmsBe the strategic design partner to product and engineering leadership on how complex regulatory data becomes intuitive, usable, beautiful softwareBuild and steward a design system that scales with the company and elevates our junior designersMentor and elevate our in-house junior designers, raising the overall quality barContribute meaningfully to product discovery—not just execution; your perspective on users will shape what we buildWhy This SeatFirst senior design hire at a company that has scaled rapidly—you're not joining after the big decisions are made, you're making themReal users, real revenue, real stakes—production software for regulated financial firms, not a demo or an MVPDirect access to founders and leadership with fast decision cycles and low-ego culturePath to Head of Design as the product expands—the company promotes quickly from withinWell-funded with strong momentum—resources to do the work right, and a clear path to continued growthYou'll Thrive Here If YouHave 3–7 years designing complex B2B SaaS, fintech, or compliance tools with shipped, measurable outcomesBring impeccable craft—both interaction and visual—and can demonstrate systems thinking across tables, forms, states, and edge casesHave real 0→1 experience and know how to iterate quickly in resource-constrained environmentsPrototype confidently in Figma (interactive protos; bonus: LLM-assisted prototyping) and communicate design decisions crisply to engineers and stakeholdersLove in-person, high-bandwidth collaboration and bring an owner mindset—you're energized by ambiguity, not paralyzed by itCan talk to a compliance professional about their workflow challenges and translate that directly into UX decisionsNice-to-HavesDomain exposure to fintech, compliance, accounting, or other data-dense B2B workflowsDesign-system stewardship at a growth-stage startupComfort discussing technical constraints (APIs, data structures, latency) with engineersWhat We OfferCompetitive base salary + above-market equityIn-person culture with direct access to founders and fast decision cyclesMassive ownership—products that move key business metrics for financial institutions, not just pixels on a screenClear path to Head of Design as we scaleMust-Haves (Logistics)Based in NYC or willing to relocate; on-site 5 days/week (no hybrid/remote)Work authorization in the U.S. (visa transfer considered on a case-by-case basis)How to ApplyApply with your LinkedIn + portfolio link (required)Include 1–2 case studies that show: the problem you faced, the options you considered, what shipped, and results (metrics, adoption, or lessons learned)