Founding Product Designer

Odin•New York, NY

4d•$145,000 - $194,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Odin is seeking a senior design leader to transform the user experience of its private markets platform. This role combines exceptional visual craft with systems-level product thinking, playing a key part in defining and elevating Odin's customer experience for a major US launch. The scope includes both product and visual brand identity, evolving the brand to express the company's philosophy and ambition. Working with the existing designer, Head of Product, and the product team, this individual will set the design direction, raise the quality bar, and shape how design operates as the company grows. Responsibilities include exploring complex problems, building and testing prototypes, engaging directly with customers, and translating insights into polished, production-ready experiences. The role involves creating structure from incomplete information, navigating technical and regulatory constraints, and ensuring work genuinely improves customer experience and business outcomes.

Requirements

8+ years of product design experience, with a strong track record of shaping complex products end to end.
Experience as an early or senior designer within a high-growth product team.
In-house experience, with ownership of complete customer journeys rather than isolated screens.
A portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual design, polished production-ready UI and measurable business or customer impact.
Strong information architecture, interaction design and prototyping skills.
The ability to produce high-quality work at pace, make confident visual decisions and maintain a consistently high bar across the product.
Strong systems thinking, with experience designing complete workflows spanning user actions, communications, automations, permissions, operational processes and technical constraints.
Experience designing complex, multi-party products or working within regulated environments.
The ability to independently lead discovery, including customer interviews, assumption validation, prototyping, usability testing and iteration.
Experience establishing structured, repeatable customer-research and feedback practices.
Rigorous reasoning.
High agency.
Exceptional craft.
Deep customer empathy.
Deeply user-centric: Advocate for the customer and care about how people experience the product. Use interviews, data and observation to understand real behaviour.
Exceptional in craft: Highly developed eye for composition, hierarchy, interaction and detail. Create polished, cohesive experiences and hold the shipped product to a very high standard.
Reasoned and curious: Challenge assumptions, ask sharp questions and look for root causes.
Decisive with strong judgment: Make thoughtful trade-offs between speed, quality, complexity and compliance. Explore enough to make an informed decision, form a clear point of view and move quickly.
High agency: Identify what needs to happen, bring others with you and take responsibility for moving the work forward.
Systematic about discovery: Build repeatable ways of learning from customers, test assumptions early and establish regular feedback loops.
Clear and collaborative: Articulate thinking simply, write clearly and give engineers the context and detail needed to build what was intended.
Comfortable with complexity and ambiguity.
Outcome-driven: Care about what happens after something ships.

Responsibilities

Define and elevate the customer experience at Odin.
Evolve the brand identity alongside the founders.
Set the design direction for the company.
Raise the quality bar for design.
Shape how design operates as the company grows.
Explore complex problems.
Build and test prototypes.
Speak directly with customers.
Translate learnings into polished, production-ready experiences.
Turn complex, regulation-heavy workflows and dense interfaces into clear, intuitive experiences.
Establish repeatable ways of learning from customers.
Test assumptions early.
Establish regular feedback loops.
Articulate thinking simply and write clearly.
Provide engineers with context and detail for implementation.
Debate constructively and respond well to feedback.
Operate with conviction without ego.
Create structure from incomplete information.
Navigate technical, regulatory, and operational constraints.
Measure impact and ensure work improves customer experience, business outcomes, or operational efficiency.