
Lead Product Designer
Mission
OpenFX is building the infrastructure layer for institutional money movement at a global scale. We sit at the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets, working with institutional users who move large volumes across currencies and care deeply about operational clarity in their money flows.
As a Lead Product Designer, you will help make complex financial infrastructure feel clear, trustworthy, and efficient. You'll work across client-facing trading experiences, internal operational tools, and the communications that connect both. The work goes beyond visual polish. It's about making intricate financial logic understandable to the people who rely on it every day.
Why Join
The problems are genuinely hard
This isn't a role where you'll inherit a mature design system and optimize funnels. You'll design for multi-currency payments product, compliance-gated workflows, and users who understand these systems better than most people building it. The work pushes well past what's traditionally considered the domain of a designer and you'll need to reason about state machines, data models, and operational risk, and turn that reasoning into interfaces that make complex things feel simple.
You get a front-row seat to shape how money moves around the world
Every year, migrants send over $656 billion home to their families, three times more than all foreign aid combined. But they lose more than $40 billion of that to transfer fees. The World Bank has shown that a 10% increase in per capita remittances leads to a 3.5% decline in the share of people living in poverty. When the cost and time of moving money goes down, the effects are measurable and material, more children in school, more small businesses funded, more families above the poverty line. This is the infrastructure you'd be helping to shape.
The playbook is being written right now
The way design works inside organizations is changing fast. AI is collapsing the distance between idea and artifact. Cross-functional boundaries are blurring. The traditional sequence of brief → wireframe → spec → handoff is giving way to something faster, more fluid, and less clearly defined. At OpenFX, you won't inherit someone else's process, you'll author it. You'll help shape how design, product, and engineering collaborate, how decisions get made, and what the culture of a design-aware company actually looks like when it's built from the ground up.
Skills & Competencies
Systems Design
- You think in systems, not just screens. Our platform is interconnected, and a single action can affect multiple surfaces, states, and user types. We're looking for someone who can map these relationships, think through edge cases, and approach design holistically.
- You're can design and map interfaces that behave differently depending on context, whether that's user permissions, account configuration, feature flags, or time-sensitive conditions.
- You have experience working with information-dense environments like dashboards, tables, and summary views, and you understand how hierarchy and progressive disclosure help users make better decisions.
Financial & B2B Product Sensibility
- You're familiar with financial product concepts, or you pick up new domains quickly. A finance background isn't required, but we value designers who take the time to understand the domain well enough to contribute to product decisions, not just execute on them.
- You've designed for professional, repeat-use products where users are experts in their own field, use the product daily, and prioritize speed, density, and predictability.
- You understand that in institutional products, how you communicate a constraint or an error matters. A poorly worded message can affect a customer relationship. You think carefully about how the product handles moments of friction.
Craft & Execution
- You have a strong eye for visual design across layout, typography, color, and hierarchy. We'll look at your work to understand this.
- You can clearly articulate your product and interaction decisions. User flows, information structures, and functional design choices should be grounded in how they serve the end user, and you're comfortable walking stakeholders through your reasoning.
- You're proficient in Figma and use it as a tool for quickly visualizing ideas. Beyond that, you recognize that different projects call for different levels of design investment. You can assess what a project needs, choose the right artifact to evaluate the solution, and hand it off in a way that works for your engineering counterparts. Sometimes that's a detailed Figma file, other times it's a flow diagram, a written brief, or a quick prototype.
- You write well. In B2B platforms, words carry as much weight as visuals. Error messages, confirmation copy, tooltips, email content, and empty states all shape how confident users feel. We value designers who can write production-quality microcopy.
- You're comfortable working at different fidelities, from rough explorations early in a project to polished specs for engineering handoff. You're happy to share unfinished work to align on direction before investing in detail.
- You care about consistency in typography, spacing, interaction patterns and components. You notice when something is slightly off and you take the time to fix it.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- You're comfortable working with product managers on open-ended problems where the answer isn't obvious and involves trade-offs across user needs, brand promise, technical feasibility, and business priorities. You bring a design perspective to these conversations.
- You engage with engineering beyond handoff. That might look like reviewing technical documents for UX implications, pairing during implementation, or iterating on details in the browser.
- You've worked with client-facing teams like customer success, sales, or GTM, and you know how to translate their feedback into design insights. You care about making sure the product experience matches what users hear from the team.
Research & Validation
- You have experience with user research in B2B or enterprise settings where direct access to users is limited and insights often come through intermediaries like account managers or support conversations.
- You can pull together signals from different sources (client feedback, support patterns, sales conversations, competitive landscape) and turn them into design hypotheses worth testing.
- You take a pragmatic approach to validation. You prefer lightweight feedback cycles over large-scale studies, and you understand when a short call with a couple of users will give you more signal than a broad survey.
Roles & Responsibilities
Design Ownership
- Lead the design process end-to-end for product initiatives, from early problem framing through to specs and implementation support. You help shape what gets built, not just how it looks.
- Work across the full product surface, including client-facing features, internal tools, transactional communications, and onboarding. We hold the same quality bar for what users see and what internal teams use.
- Produce whatever design artifacts the project calls for, whether that's user flows, wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity mocks, or component documentation.
Product & Strategy Partnership
- Work closely with product management to frame problems, explore solutions, and navigate trade-offs. You're a collaborative partner in product thinking, not someone who receives a finished brief.
- Bring a design lens to product and business conversations. Help the team see where UX friction creates unnecessary overhead, where gaps in information affect client trust, and where better design can meaningfully improve outcomes.
- Join technical planning discussions to flag UX implications of architectural decisions early, when they're still easy to adjust.
Design System & Platform Consistency
- Help maintain and evolve the design system, keeping component libraries, interaction patterns, and design tokens coherent as the product grows across teams.
- Contribute to ongoing quality efforts by spotting and addressing inconsistencies in typography, spacing, copy, and component usage across the platform.
- Help establish and maintain UX writing standards so the product speaks consistently across in-app messages, emails, and error states.
Collaboration & Implementation
- Work alongside engineers during build. We value designers who stay involved through implementation, help resolve ambiguities as they come up, and adjust designs when needed based on what emerges in development.
- Stay connected with client-facing teams to keep the loop tight between what users experience and what the product delivers.
- Share your design work and thinking clearly with cross-functional stakeholders. We value reasoning grounded in user needs and business context.
Research & Learning
- Develop a working understanding of how people actually use the platform, including their workflows, mental models, and pain points. This understanding grows over time and should inform your design decisions.
- Make research a regular part of how you work, through client calls, design reviews with CS, and prototype walkthroughs, rather than treating it as a separate activity.
- Keep up with design patterns in financial services, trading platforms, and B2B SaaS, and bring relevant outside perspective to the team.
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