Staff Product Designer - Investment Products

Farther•New York, NY

16h

About The Position

Farther is a rapidly growing RIA that combines expert advisors with cutting-edge technology, delivering a comprehensive, tailored wealth management experience. The company's founders are leaders and innovators from the private wealth industry with expertise in traditional wealth management, fintech, and technology production. Farther is backed by top-tier venture capital firms, fintech investors, and industry leaders. Joining Farther means becoming part of a collaborative team of entrepreneurs passionate about helping clients and teammates achieve more. The company is seeking a Staff Product Designer specializing in investment products. This role involves shaping end-to-end experiences for Wealth Advisors and client-facing tools, translating complex financial systems into clear, intuitive, and high-performance user experiences. The ideal candidate will thrive in ambiguity, work at high velocity, and drive problems from discovery through polished execution, collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, and Research to define solutions, rapidly prototype and validate ideas, and shape product direction. Strong expertise in investment workflows, data-heavy interfaces, and design systems is essential, along with a passion for AI-enabled workflows and design-to-code efficiency.

Requirements

8+ years of product design experience with deep expertise in complex, data-rich digital products
Proven track record designing investment, trading, wealth management, or financial analytics platforms — institutional or retail
Strong understanding of investment concepts including market data and pricing mechanics, order types and execution flows, portfolio construction and asset allocation, and performance, risk, and return analytics
Expert-level proficiency in Figma (components, auto layout, variants, prototyping) and experience evolving design systems at scale
Strong systems thinker who can operate across multi-step workflows and interconnected product surfaces
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and rapidly translating loosely defined problems into structured, testable solutions
High-agency collaborator who thrives in fast-paced startup environments and can independently drive work from concept to execution
Strong communication skills with the ability to tailor narratives across users, engineers, and executive stakeholders

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with AI-assisted design workflows, no-code tools, and design-to-code pipelines
Experience mentoring or informally leading other designers in high-growth environments
Experience working with real-time market data, trading infrastructure, or institutional investment systems
Background in designing for quantitative or analytical user personas — traders, portfolio managers, or RIAs

Responsibilities

Drive end-to-end product design across discovery, definition, prototyping, validation, and final execution with high velocity and exceptional craft
Shape design direction for complex investment workflows — portfolios, order execution, asset allocation, performance, and risk — translating them into clear, actionable user experiences
Partner closely with Product and Engineering to define strategy, surface constraints, and drive high-impact investment product decisions
Design and validate solutions through rapid prototyping, experimentation, and structured user feedback loops
Create high-fidelity designs, interactive prototypes, and decision-driving artifacts that directly influence product direction
Transform dense financial and market data into clear, usable visualizations, dashboards, and decision-support tools
Contribute to and evolve a scalable design system that supports speed, consistency, and product complexity
Leverage AI, automation, and modern design tooling to accelerate exploration, iteration, and production readiness
Elevate design quality and thinking across the organization through critique, feedback, and informal mentorship
Act as a strategic thought partner to Product and Engineering — helping shape roadmap priorities within the investment domain
Clearly articulate design rationale grounded in user behavior, financial logic, and business outcomes