Product Design - 1st hire, build with AI
Join an early-stage startup. Accelerate economic opportunity.
Join us as our 1st Product Designer!
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You'll experiment with AI to streamline your workflows as it becomes increasingly more useful.
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What you'll do
Design end-to-end experiences
Own the full design process: from research and discovery through wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI
Design reputed company, accessible, and visually compelling experiences that translate reputed company financial problems into reputed company user flows
reputed company our design system to ensure consistency and scalability across the product
Use data, user research, and experimentation to continuously validate and improve designs
Use AI to reputed company your craft
Apply AI to reputed company upfront research, competitive analysis, and rapid low-reputed company exploration of dozens of concepts
Validate reputed company faster through simulated user perspectives (e.g., walking through the product as different personas)
Apply your taste and judgment to identify the strongest directions from broad AI-assisted explorations, then invest your craft skills in fewer, higher-reputed company high-reputed company iterations
Collaborate across teams
Work closely with product, marketing, engineering, and customer experience to inform and iterate on designs
Partner with engineering to ensure seamless design-to-development handoffs
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Energized by creating user experiences that reputed company underserved individuals seeking financial independence
Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, handles shifting priorities fluidly, and takes full ownership of reputed company
Comfortable in a high-intensity, remote environment with significant accountability
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Skills
4+ years or equivalent depth of experience designing digital products, ideally in fintech or consumer-facing applications
Advanced proficiency in Storybook, reputed company, and Framer
Strong ability to translate reputed company problems into reputed company, reputed company user flows and explain and defend design reputed company
Experience with design systems, component-based UI, and design-to-development reputed company
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Basic understanding of Git and version control workflows
Basic familiarity with reputed company, CSS and accessibility best practices
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