Product Designer

Urban Ridge Supplies•New York, NY

25d•$177,000 - $260,000

About The Position

As a founding product designer on Cerity Partners’ newly formed Innovation Team, you will build and ship complex products that can scale to tens of thousands of clients. You will help make foundational decisions about user experience, product, design systems, and business strategy, with the opportunity to create products from 0 to 1 and scale them after launch. You will work directly with Will Peng, Chief Innovation Officer. The Innovation Team is Cerity Partners’ center of excellence for technology strategy and applied AI. It aims to combine technology and professional services to shape the future of financial services, using AI to improve service quality in wealth and investment management. The team works with colleagues across the business to understand workflows and create cohesive experiences for clients, advisors, and colleagues. Its vision is to build a new operating system for wealth intelligence across the AI stack, including harnesses, context, memory, evaluations, agents, models, workflows, data, and knowledge. The designer will own end-to-end experiences and business goals, partner with clients, advisors, and colleagues to identify and address high-value problems, establish product strategy and user experience foundations, and help define the company’s design standards. The role includes prototyping and shipping to test hypotheses, setting design direction and visual language, and shaping how design collaborates with engineering and product. It requires financial-services experience, experience with AI tooling and workflows, the ability to work in ambiguity, and expertise with Figma and AI coding tools or similar.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience.
Financial services industry experience, with an understanding of wealth management, investment advisory, or related financial services operations.
Demonstrated experience with AI tooling, models, harnesses, and workflows.
Demonstrated ability to operate in ambiguity and build 0-to-1 products from first principles rather than relying on established processes.
Expertise and experience with Figma, Claude Code, Codex, or similar tools.
Track record of broad, lasting impact on customers, colleagues, and foundational systems.
Strong systems thinking and ability to evaluate decisions in their broader context.
Excellent product and business intuition, with an ability to prioritize user experience and distinguish what matters most.
Ability to take initiative, move work forward independently, navigate obstacles, and build trust and alignment.
Ability to work quickly and rigorously, with a bias toward action, rapid learning, and hypothesis-driven work.
Experience creating and shipping real products in ambiguous or undefined spaces.
Experience building and shipping AI agents and harnesses, and interest in experimenting with emerging AI capabilities.
Strong collaboration skills and comfort working with cross-functional teams.
Comfort with code and understanding how designs are handed off and implemented through AI-native processes.

Nice To Haves

Ability to write code.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end user journeys and business goals, including both 0-to-1 product development and scaling products after launch.
Partner with clients, advisors, and colleagues to identify opportunities, understand needs and root problems, map workflows, test prototypes and hypotheses, and advocate for effective experiences.
Establish foundational product strategy and user experience decisions that inform business strategy, goals, differentiation, and prioritization.
Work across the AI stack, including harnesses, context, memory, evaluations, agents, and models, in wealth management and internal collaboration.
Define design standards and direction, prototype and ship to test hypotheses, shape design collaboration with engineering and product, and create visual language and interaction models.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to connect feedback, workflows, and downstream implications into coherent organizational decisions.
Use a hypothesis-driven approach to move quickly, learn, and ship products while balancing speed and quality.