About the position
Product Designers at Vise are obsessed with building a world-class user experience to save financial advisors time, grow their business, and help their clients understand their investment portfolios. They identify and advocate for solving critical customer problems, discover strategy-driving insights, and build advisor empathy across the company. Now that we’ve launched the second iteration of our platform, we’re ready to innovate from a design perspective and bring the next generation of our experience to life. Autonomy is everything. At Vise, you’ll be empowered to apply your design instincts to the most critical parts of our user journey as well as express your point of view without bureaucracy or red tape. Through close partnership with product, engineering, and sales, you’ll be responsible for taking new product enhancements and features from ideation to execution. You’ll also play a pivotal role in driving the continued evolution of our design culture.
Responsibilities
- Own your design process; end to end.
- Achieve cross-functional outcomes with engineering, product, and business teams to understand problems, define goals and research requirements, map out user journeys, as well as prototype and launch new features and functionality.
- Advocate for user needs and contribute to the evolution of our design system.
- Conduct user research and testing from concept to usability.
- Maintain the standard for Design @ Vise, from culture, to process, to quality.
- Explore new ways to educate our users on Vise’s investment philosophy and the decisions our investment engine makes on behalf of clients.
- Drive PLG initiatives to scale and expand.
- Improve existing core user flows to provide advisors with a best-in-class experience.
- Enhance and scale existing suite of AI products.
- Iterate on Vise’s visual style and contribute new patterns and components to our design system.
- Collaborate with the team to set overall company direction, sales strategy, and hiring goals.
Requirements
- 5-7 years of product design experience.
- Countless examples of cross-functional partnership with an iterative design process.
- Comfortable accepting and implementing feedback while advocating for the best possible user experience.
- Clear vision and track record of successfully implementing designs.
- Ability to get buy-in from stakeholders in product, engineering, and sales by articulating design decisions and rationale.
- Experience turning abstract ideas and hypotheses into compelling product experiences.
- Applied research, usability tests, and performance metrics to inform design decisions.
- Strong understanding of usability and user experience principles.
- Skilled storyteller who can translate complex ideas into clear narratives.
- Self-starter who identifies design problems and takes initiative to solve them.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and uncertainty to deliver positive outcomes.
Nice-to-haves
- Detail-oriented and organized.
- Excellent time management skills.
- Strong communicator who shares information in a timely manner.
- Eager to learn and solve problems.
- Team player who collaborates effectively.
Benefits
- Opportunity to make a significant impact at a hyper-growth fintech start-up.
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Unlimited PTO and great benefits, including $1 medical insurance.
- 401k plan with generous matching and self-directed brokerage account option.
- Access to investment management and free financial advice from partner RIA firms.
- Paid lunches at the NYC office.
- Career growth and development opportunities.
