Founding Designer

Endex•New York, NY

52d•Onsite

About The Position

As Founding Designer at Endex, you'll define how financial professionals interact with AI in their most critical workflows. You'll design intuitive interfaces for agentic AI, building a design system that scales, and establishing the visual identity of a category-defining product. If you want to shape how Wall Street works with AI, this is your opportunity.

Requirements

3+ years of product design experience at technology companies, ideally B2B SaaS or technical tools
Strong portfolio showcasing end-to-end product design work with measurable impact
Proficiency in modern design tools (Figma required)
Experience designing complex workflows or enterprise software
Product Designer: You have a strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design, from research and wireframes to high-fidelity mockups and shipped features
User-Obsessed: You deeply understand user workflows and pain points. You conduct research proactively and let insights drive your design decisions
Technically Fluent: You understand technical constraints and can work effectively with engineers. You know what's possible in web technologies and can design within platform limitations
Detail-Oriented: Your designs are polished and production-ready
Fast Executor: You ship quickly, iterate based on feedback, and don't get paralyzed by perfection. You balance craft with velocity in early-stage environments
Strong Communicator: You articulate design decisions clearly and can advocate for user needs across the organization

Nice To Haves

Background in finance or financial services—you understand Excel power users and financial modeling workflows
Experience designing AI/ML products or agentic interfaces
Experience with design systems or component libraries
Front-end development skills (HTML/CSS/JavaScript)
Experience at early-stage startups (seed to Series A)

Responsibilities

Core Product Experience: Design the end-to-end user journey for interacting with AI agents in Excel. Create intuitive interfaces for complex workflows (prompting, iterating, reviewing AI outputs)
Onboarding & Activation: Craft the first-time user experience that takes someone from "what is this?" to "I can't work without this."
Design System: Build and maintain our design system from scratch. Establish patterns, components, and guidelines that enable consistency and velocity as we scale
Visual Identity: Shape Endex's brand through our product, marketing site, and collateral. Create a visual language that feels sophisticated, trustworthy, and cutting-edge
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Engineering and Product to ship designs. Balance user needs with technical constraints, especially within Excel's add-in environment
Growth & Conversion: Design signup flows, pricing pages, and upgrade prompts that drive conversion