Founding Product Designer

Urban Ridge Supplies • New York, NY

10d

About The Position

This is a senior design opportunity to build the product design function from the ground up at a high-growth financial infrastructure company transforming the private asset market. The company’s live, revenue-generating platform manages complex, multi-party workflows across the full lifecycle of private asset transactions for leading financial institutions.

The platform is intended to power private asset transactions over their full 5–7-year lifecycle, supporting multiple parties, evolving permissions, recurring workflows, and new deal structures. It must also make AI a first-class participant alongside human users.

The Founding Product Designer will define what an AI-native financial platform should look and feel like, determining which workflows need exceptional interfaces and which can become infrastructure accessed directly by AI agents and other products. The role will shape a cohesive experience across deterministic, human-led workflows and emerging AI-native interactions, so they feel like one product. It will also establish the design function, practices, and standards, and work closely with Engineering, Product, and company leadership on platform architecture, commercial priorities, and roadmap decisions.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience designing and shipping AI-native interaction patterns.
• Strong systems thinking and experience making platform- and design-system-level decisions.
• A track record of working closely with Engineering on technical architecture and design-to-engineering processes.
• An exceptional portfolio demonstrating visual craft, typography, interaction design, and strong product judgment.
• Excellent written, verbal, and storytelling skills.
• A clear point of view on how AI is changing the nature of software products and interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the product design function, including its team structure, processes, and craft standards.
• Establish a design-to-engineering approach for a system-first product model, where the underlying platform is designed before the interface.
• Define how deterministic and AI-native interactions coexist across the product.
• Make platform-level decisions about design systems, reusable patterns, permissions, and where structural variation should live.
• Partner closely and technically with Engineering on architecture, systems, and implementation.
• Collaborate with Product on commercial translation, prioritization, and sequencing.
• Represent design in leadership discussions and roadmap decisions.
• Help evolve how Design, Product, and Engineering work together.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed