Staff Product Designer - Investment Products

About the role

Farther is a rapidly growing RIA combining expert advisors with technology to deliver a tailored wealth management experience. It is looking for a Staff Product Designer specializing in investment products, based in a hybrid setup in New York, to shape end-to-end experiences for Wealth Advisors and client-facing tools. The role turns complex financial systems into clear, intuitive, high-performance user experiences, working closely with Product, Engineering and Research.

Key responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end product design from discovery and definition through prototyping, validation and execution at high velocity
• Shape design direction for complex investment workflows such as portfolios, order execution, asset allocation, performance and risk
• Partner with Product and Engineering on strategy, constraints and high-impact investment product decisions
• Rapidly prototype and validate solutions through experimentation and structured user feedback
• Create high-fidelity designs, interactive prototypes and decision-driving artifacts
• Turn dense financial and market data into clear visualizations, dashboards and decision-support tools
• Contribute to and evolve a scalable design system, and use AI, automation and modern design tooling to speed up iteration
• Elevate design quality across the organization through critique, feedback and informal mentorship, and act as a strategic thought partner to Product and Engineering

Required profile

• 8+ years of product design experience with complex, data-rich digital products
• Proven track record designing investment, trading, wealth management or financial analytics platforms, institutional or retail
• Strong understanding of investment concepts: market data and pricing, order types and execution flows, portfolio construction, asset allocation, performance, risk and return analytics
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and in fast-paced startup environments, able to turn loosely defined problems into structured, testable solutions
• Strong communication skills, able to tailor narratives to users, engineers and executives

Required skills

• Expert-level Figma (components, auto layout, variants, prototyping)
• Experience evolving design systems at scale
• Bonus: familiarity with AI-assisted design workflows, no-code tools and design-to-code pipelines; mentoring other designers; real-time market data or institutional investment systems; quantitative user personas

What we offer

• Learning through book clubs, seminars and peer learning sessions
• Competitive compensation package
• Health benefits, 401(k) matching and Roth IRA options
• Unlimited PTO
• Collaborative atmosphere between product, design and engineering