Senior Design Lead

YipitData is seeking a Senior Product Designer to lead a complex design overhaul for their Investor Applications team, empowering institutional investor customers to rapidly take action from data and research insights.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end design process from discovery to production, which may include research proposals, information architecture, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity artifacts that engineering can deliver
• Influence the vision and strategy of our product’s experience by analyzing, consolidating, and synthesizing what is known about the needs of our customers
• Conduct research to deepen our understanding of our user personas, discover opportunities to solve problems that matter, and propose solutions that will generate value for our customers
• Plan and conduct tests to validate the usability and value of your solutions as quickly as possible
• Iteratively improve the user experience until we’re confident it will help our customers rapidly and confidently take action
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to refine product strategy and create user-centric solutions to the most important customer problems

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in product design, ideally within the financial services space
• Understanding of financial markets and the workflows of institutional buy-side participants
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions clearly to a diverse audience
• Proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Figma
• Excellent user research skills and the ability to translate research findings into tangible design solutions
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment
• AI tools usage (Nice to have)

Benefits

• Flexible work hours, flexible vacation, a generous 401K match, parental leave, team events, wellness budget, learning reimbursement, and more
• Equity