Staff Product Designer - Investment Products

Urban Ridge Supplies•New York, NY

About The Position

Farther is a rapidly growing RIA combining expert advisors with technology to provide a tailored wealth management experience. The company is backed by venture capital firms, fintech investors, and industry leaders, and describes its team as collaborative and entrepreneurial. The Staff Product Designer will specialize in investment products and shape end-to-end experiences for Wealth Advisors and client-facing tools. The role translates complex financial systems into clear, intuitive, high-performance user experiences. It requires comfort with ambiguity and high velocity, and ownership of problems from discovery through polished execution. The designer will work closely with Product, Engineering, and Research to define solutions, prototype and validate ideas, and influence product direction. Expertise in investment workflows, data-heavy interfaces, and design systems is essential, as is interest in AI-enabled workflows and design-to-code efficiency.

Requirements

At least 8 years of product design experience with deep expertise in complex, data-rich digital products.
Proven experience 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 across multi-step workflows and interconnected product surfaces.
Ability to work in ambiguity and translate loosely defined problems into structured, testable solutions.
High-agency collaboration and ability to independently drive work from concept to execution in a fast-paced startup environment.
Strong communication skills, with the 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 with real-time market data, trading infrastructure, or institutional investment systems.
Background 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 complex investment workflows, including portfolios, order execution, asset allocation, performance, and risk.
Partner with Product and Engineering to define strategy, surface constraints, and inform 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 influence product direction.
Transform dense financial and market data into clear visualizations, dashboards, and decision-support tools.
Contribute to and evolve a scalable design system that supports speed, consistency, and product complexity.
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.
Act as a strategic thought partner to Product and Engineering, helping shape roadmap priorities within the investment domain.
Articulate design rationale grounded in user behavior, financial logic, and business outcomes.