Fartherfinance
Staff Product Designer - Investment Products
Hybrid - New York, NY. Posted 6 months ago
The role
This person will shape end-to-end experiences for Wealth Advisors and client-facing tools. They will translate complex financial systems into intuitive user experiences through discovery, prototyping, and execution.
What you will do
- Drive end-to-end product design from discovery to final execution
- Shape design direction for complex investment workflows
- Partner with Product and Engineering to define strategy and drive decisions
- Design and validate solutions through rapid prototyping and user feedback
- Create high-fidelity designs and interactive prototypes
- Transform dense financial and market data into visualizations and dashboards
- Contribute to and evolve a scalable design system
- Leverage AI, automation, and modern design tooling
- Elevate design quality through critique and informal mentorship
- Act as a strategic thought partner to Product and Engineering
Required qualifications
- 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
- Strong understanding of investment concepts including market data, pricing mechanics, order types, execution flows, portfolio construction, asset allocation, and performance, risk, and return analytic
- Expert-level proficiency in Figma
- Experience evolving design systems at scale
- Strong systems thinker
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity
- High-agency collaborator
- Strong communication skills
Nice to have
- 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
Benefits
- Learn and grow through book clubs, seminars, and peer learning sessions
- Competitive comp package
- Full health benefits
- 401(k) matching
- Roth IRA options
- Unlimited PTO
About the company
Farther is a rapidly growing RIA that combines expert advisors with cutting-edge technology. The founders are leaders and innovators from the private wealth industry.