Staff Product Designer

Ridgeline•Reno, NV

5d•$184,500 - $231,000

About The Position

Ridgeline is hiring a Staff Product Designer to modernize trading software for investment management. The designer will work across order management and electronic trading, partnering with product managers, engineers, and customers to create experiences that help traders handle complex activity with clarity, speed, and accuracy. The work includes configurable trading workspaces, exception management, automated workflows, and AI-assisted experiences, while extending platform patterns for traders. The role uses AI tools such as Claude, Cursor, and Claude Code to explore concepts, prototype workflows, evaluate edge cases, and improve product quality and design velocity. The designer will translate concepts into polished, production-ready Figma designs, contribute to design systems and AI design practices, validate ideas through customer conversations and usability testing, and mentor other designers. Ridgeline describes its culture as collaborative, transparent, resilient, and high-performing. Employees are encouraged to take ownership, learn from setbacks, act decisively, and bring solutions. The role requires work authorization in the United States without employer sponsorship. This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Requirements

At least 6 years of experience designing and shipping successful digital product experiences.
Strong interaction design, systems thinking, visual design, and prototyping skills.
Experience designing complex workflows, data-intensive applications, or enterprise software platforms.
Active experience using AI-native workflows and tools such as Claude, Cursor, or Claude Code in daily product and design practice.
Ability to simplify technically complex systems into intuitive user experiences.
Experience collaborating closely with engineering teams to deliver thoughtful, scalable solutions.
Strong storytelling, communication, and presentation skills.
Ability to mentor and coach designers while raising quality across an organization.
Experience gathering customer insights and translating findings into actionable product improvements.
Ability to manage ambiguity, prioritize effectively, and create clarity across cross-functional teams.
Strong problem-solving skills and a high level of product ownership.
Willingness to learn about cutting-edge technologies and develop expertise in investment management workflows and order management systems.
Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels.
A shareable portfolio, as an attachment or online.
Work authorization in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Experience in financial services, investment management, trading platforms, or other complex financial products.
Experience conducting user research and usability testing.
Proficiency with modern front-end technologies, including React, JavaScript/TypeScript, and CSS.
Experience contributing to design systems and design-to-code workflows.
Experience designing AI-native product experiences, including agentic behavior, transparency patterns, confidence cues, and user controls.

Responsibilities

Reimagine workflows across order management and electronic trading to help investment teams manage complex trading activity with clarity and efficiency.
Design workflows that help traders navigate complex decisions, find actionable information, and manage exceptions and alerts quickly and accurately.
Extend existing patterns and frameworks, including configurable dashboards, into trading workspaces that users can tailor to their workflows and priorities.
Build trading experiences that incorporate automated and deterministic workflows, AI-assisted guidance, and emerging AI capabilities.
Prototype and iterate using tools such as Claude, Cursor, and Claude Code to explore workflows, edge cases, and interaction patterns.
Translate concepts into polished, production-ready Figma experiences using strong systems thinking and visual craft.
Collaborate with engineering to ensure designs are feasible, scalable, and thoughtfully implemented.
Contribute to Ridgeline’s design systems, interaction patterns, prompt libraries, and AI design practices.
Conduct customer conversations, lightweight research, and usability testing to validate ideas and improve workflows.
Mentor designers through feedback, collaboration, and thoughtful design critique.
Own problems, seek solutions, communicate clearly, and contribute to a collaborative environment rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency.