Staff Product Designer - Investment Products
About The Position
Farther is a rapidly growing RIA combining expert advisors with technology to deliver a tailored wealth management experience. The Staff Product Designer will shape end-to-end experiences for Wealth Advisors and client-facing tools, translating complex financial systems into clear, intuitive, high-performance user experiences. The role requires working effectively in ambiguity and at high velocity, driving problems from discovery through polished execution, and collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, and Research to define solutions, prototype and validate ideas, and shape product direction. The designer will bring expertise in investment workflows, data-heavy interfaces, and design systems, with an interest in AI-enabled workflows and design-to-code efficiency.
Requirements
- 8+ years of product design experience with deep expertise in complex, data-rich digital products.
- A proven track record designing investment, trading, wealth management, or financial analytics platforms, for institutional or retail users.
- Strong understanding of 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, including components, auto layout, variants, and prototyping.
- Experience evolving design systems at scale.
- Strong systems-thinking skills across multi-step workflows and interconnected product surfaces.
- Ability to work through ambiguity and translate loosely defined problems into structured, testable solutions.
- Ability to independently drive work from concept to execution in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Strong communication skills and ability to tailor narratives for 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 designers in high-growth environments.
- Experience working with real-time market data, trading infrastructure, or institutional investment systems.
- Experience designing for quantitative or analytical users such as traders, portfolio managers, or RIAs.
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end product design across discovery, definition, prototyping, validation, and final execution.
- Shape design direction for investment workflows, including portfolios, order execution, asset allocation, performance, and risk.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to define strategy, surface constraints, and guide high-impact investment product decisions.
- Design and validate solutions through rapid prototyping, experimentation, and structured user feedback.
- Create high-fidelity designs, interactive prototypes, and decision-driving artifacts that influence product direction.
- Transform dense financial and market data into usable visualizations, dashboards, and decision-support tools.
- Contribute to and evolve a scalable design system.
- Use AI, automation, and modern design tools to accelerate exploration, iteration, and production readiness.
- Elevate design quality and thinking through critique, feedback, and informal mentorship.
- Partner strategically with Product and Engineering to shape investment-domain roadmap priorities.
- Communicate design rationale grounded in user behavior, financial logic, and business outcomes.
Benefits
- Book clubs, seminars, and peer learning sessions.
- Competitive compensation package that rewards impact.
- Opportunity to work with fintech professionals.
- Ground-floor opportunity at a fast-scaling startup.
- Opportunity to chart a growth path as the company expands.
- Full health benefits.
- 401(k) matching and Roth IRA options.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Collaborative atmosphere across Product, Design, and Engineering.
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
