SRHG: Head of Product Design

Stone Ridge is a $39B diversified financial services firm that creates innovative capital markets solutions through a group of industry-leading operating companies. Founded in 2012 and based in New York, we build businesses and investment strategies in markets where deep expertise, proprietary data, and disciplined execution can create lasting advantages. 

We build products we want for ourselves and invest in all our strategies alongside our partners. Everything we do—from how we approach problems to how we work with one another—is grounded in our core values: Focus. Be Humble. Be Kind. 

Why Stone Ridge? 

Stone Ridge is intentionally flat, meritocratic, and demanding. Ideas matter more than titles, and people are trusted with meaningful responsibility. The bargain is simple: you get to work here, and in return, you commit to keep learning, keep improving, and striving to be the best in the industry at what you do. 

Stone Ridge Asset Management develops differentiated alternative investment strategies designed to provide valuable sources of return and diversification beyond traditional stocks and bonds. 

The Opportunity 

Stone Ridge is seeking a Head of Product Design to establish design as a first-class discipline across the firm, owning product design from discovery through delivery. The person will be primarily responsible for setting SRHG’s design principles, standards, and systems firmwide; personally leading discovery and delivery on priority products as the firm’s founding designer; and defining how AI-native interfaces are designed across the organization. The role operates as the de facto design leader for the 100+ person technology organization, working closely with product, engineering, and business teams, and presenting to the Executive Committee. 

This is a distinctive opportunity to build a design function from the ground up at an AI-first alternative asset manager, shaping both the internal platforms that run a 300-person firm and the client-facing products used in regulated financial markets. The role is well suited to someone who enjoys shipping hands-on work personally while also building the systems, rituals, and practices that make great design durable, and who is energized by defining new interaction patterns for agentic, AI-powered interfaces. 

What You’ll Do 

• Define and evangelize SRHG’s product design principles, standards, critique rituals, and review processes, stewarding a cohesive design system and brand identity across every digital surface. 

• Lead ideation through delivery across the full product portfolio — from internal operational and analytical platforms to client-facing investment products — balancing depth on priority initiatives with breadth of oversight. 

• Personally lead discovery and delivery on priority products as the founding designer, from research plans and prototyping through interaction, visual execution, and build-ready specifications. 

• Establish lightweight, high-signal research practices across both internal users and external clients. 

• Translate the firm’s AI-first strategy into interfaces that make powerful capabilities feel obvious, trustworthy, and effortless, and define patterns for agentic interfaces, LLM-powered workflows, and copilots. 

• Evaluate, adopt, and roll out AI-powered prototyping and design tools across the organization to accelerate the path from idea to shipped product. 

• Bring rigorous information architecture and interaction design to dashboards, analytics tooling, trading interfaces, and other data-dense operational workflows. 

• Operate as a peer to product management and engineering, serving as the de facto design leader for the technology organization, and communicate vision and tradeoffs to the Executive Committee. 

What You Bring 

Required 

• 10+ years of product design experience, including 5+ years at a senior, lead, or principal level and at least one tour as a founding or sole designer. 

• Strong portfolio demonstrating personal, hands-on execution across research, systems, UX, interaction, and visual design, with clear evidence of individual contribution on shipped work. 

• Demonstrated accountability for both the usability of what gets built and how users experience the product’s value. 

• Demonstrated success leading design for 0-to-1 products and carrying them through to scaled, production-grade experiences. 

• Uses AI as a core part of daily practice, active in prototyping, workflow automation, and design tooling. 

• Experience working with technology leads, product, and business stakeholders, with exceptional verbal, written, and visual communication skills and the confidence to present and defend design decisions to executive audiences. 

• Bachelor’s degree required. 

Preferred 

• Demonstrated excellence designing data-dense, information-rich products in regulated, compliance-driven domains; financial services or alternative investments experience. 

• Genuine interest in and hands-on experience designing AI-native product experiences — agentic interfaces, LLM-powered workflows, copilots, or human-in-the-loop systems. 

• Advanced degree in design, HCI, or a related field. 

What Success Looks Like 

• The firm has a cohesive design system, standards, and critique rituals in place across brands and entities, adopted consistently by technology teams. 

• Priority products the Head of Product Design personally leads ship at a high craft bar, from research through visual execution. 

• AI-powered prototyping and design tools are adopted organization-wide, visibly accelerating the path from idea to shipped product. 

• The Head of Product Design is recognized as the de facto design leader by product, engineering, and the Executive Committee.