Lead Product Designer

Job Description

The Design team at Addepar shapes the digital experiences of wealth managers, empowering them to grow their businesses and deliver best-in-class services to their clients through intuitive and easy-to-use products. Embracing an agile and high-growth mindset, we foster a client-centered work environment built on constructive feedback and strong collaboration. We are seeking an experienced Lead Product Designer to be a key driver in designing highly-intuitive user experiences for our Trading product. The ideal candidate is passionate about systematic design, scalable, streamlined workflows, and practical problem-solving. You enjoy diving into the details and untangling edge cases, all while understanding client wants and needs. As our first design team member based in India, you will report to our VP of Design, partnering with local teams to develop exceptional client experiences and streamline communication with teams in the U.K. and North America. This role requires a pragmatic approach, understanding when to be strategic and when to execute with agility in the context of building an early-stage product within a mature platform. What You’ll Do Lead the execution of projects from design through to final delivery, working closely within cross-functional agile teams to create elegant, intuitive, and cohesive product experiences for our users. Contribute strategically to product development, ensuring we are building the right solutions for our clients, in alignment with our product roadmap. Actively contribute to the evolution of our platform, ensuring that core trading workflows and user needs are seamlessly integrated and emphasized holistically. Partner closely with product management and engineering, advocating for user-centered design principles and implementation decisions. Manage multiple threads of workstreams simultaneously, addressing short-term design needs, and delivering value to users incrementally while making strides toward the long-term vision. Elevate Addepar’s product experience through exceptional interaction design, intuitive workflows, and effective data visualization, particularly for complex financial data. Apply user research findings and product metrics to inform design decisions, influence product prioritization, strategies, and roadmaps, ensuring data-driven decision-making. Collaborate effectively with engineering teams to ensure design feasibility and high-quality implementation. Contribute to the expansion, evolution, and adoption of the Addepar Product Language design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across our products. Serve as our local design leader in India, building a culture of design thinking and user centricity, and partnering with design leadership peers in the U.K. and North America. Participate and lead local recruiting, hiring, and onboarding efforts as we look to expand our design team in India. Actively seek out and embrace feedback from peers and cross-functional partners. Provide constructive feedback, empower, and mentor other designers to foster growth and design excellence within the team. Who You Are Minimum 10+ years of relevant professional work experience. Experience designing digital experiences for complex financial applications. Passionate about systematic design, scalable information architecture, and streamlined workflows, with proven ability to leverage complex data visualization skills to create practical and effective problem-solving solutions for financial users. Proven track record of success in product design, interaction design, and UX design, with a strong understanding of user-centered design principles. A portfolio showcasing robust UI design, solid user-centered design practices, and strong prototyping skills. Experienced in crafting web products and user interfaces for enterprise users, with a focus on usability and efficiency. Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to articulate design rationale clearly and persuasively to diverse audiences. Willing to relocate or regularly travel to Pune to collaborate with cross-functional partners on product development projects. A self-starter and proactive teammate who thrives in a fast-paced, agile environment and enjoys working collaboratively. Meticulous with a keen eye for visual consistency and attention to detail. Deep expertise of working with Figma , our primary design tool. Experience in a B2B SaaS environment, particularly within the wealth management sector, is a significant advantage.