Product Designer

Urban Ridge Supplies•New York, NY

23d•$177,000 - $260,000

About The Position

As a founding product designer on Cerity Partners’ newly formed Innovation Team, the Product Designer will build and ship complex solutions that can scale to tens of thousands of clients. The role contributes to foundational decisions about user experience, product direction, design systems, and business strategy, with the opportunity to build products from 0 to 1 and ship them immediately at scale. The designer will work directly with Will Peng, Chief Innovation Officer. Cerity Partners is an independent financial advisory firm serving high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families, business owners, and institutions. Its Innovation Team leads the strategy and deployment of technology and applied AI, partnering across the business to create cohesive experiences for clients, advisors, and colleagues. The team’s vision is to build an AI-enabled wealth intelligence platform and apply AI across wealth management and internal ways of working. The designer will own end-to-end experiences and business goals, work with clients, advisors, and colleagues to identify needs and test ideas, and establish foundational product strategy and user experience. As a founding designer, the role will set design direction and standards, define how design collaborates with product and engineering, and create visual languages and interaction models. The work spans applied AI and its supporting stack, including harnesses, context, memory, evaluations, agents, and models. The compensation range is $177,000–$260,000 (salary plus bonus).

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience.
Financial services industry experience, with understanding of wealth management, investment advisory, or related financial services operations.
Demonstrated experience with AI tooling, models, harnesses, and workflows.
Demonstrated ability to work 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 creating and shipping real products and producing broad, lasting impact.
Systems thinking and strong product and business intuition, with the ability to prioritize user experience and consider decisions in their broader context.
Ability to take initiative, move work forward independently, navigate obstacles, and build trust and alignment across others.
Ability to move quickly while maintaining rigor, with a hypothesis-driven approach, rapid learning, and high shipping velocity.
Experience building and shipping AI agents and harnesses, and interest in experimenting with emerging AI capabilities.
Ability and enthusiasm to collaborate with cross-functional teams and connect feedback, workflows, and downstream implications.
Comfort with code and understanding of design handoff and implementation in AI-native processes; writing code is not required.

Nice To Haves

Ability to write code.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end user journeys and business goals, including both 0-to-1 products and products scaled after launch.
Partner with clients, advisors, and colleagues to identify valuable opportunities, understand needs and root problems, map workflows, test prototypes and hypotheses, and advocate for effective experiences.
Establish foundational product strategy and user experience that shape product, client, advisor, and colleague experiences, as well as business strategy, differentiation, goals, and prioritization.
Work across the applied AI stack, including harnesses, context, memory, evaluations, agents, and models, in both wealth management and collaborative work.
Define design standards and direction, prototype and ship work to test hypotheses, establish design collaboration with engineering and product, and create visual language and interaction models.