Product Designer

Standard Metrics is an AI-driven financial data platform that helps investors and their portfolio companies make more informed, forward-looking decisions with automated reporting and benchmarking tools. We’re a team of optimistic product builders on a mission to accelerate innovation in the private markets. Standard Metrics is backed by 8VC and Spark Capital, along with other leading VCs and angels, and is currently a trusted partner for many of the top VC/PE firms in the world.

Come Build With Us

We are building out our Product Design team, which sits at the center of our entire product building process. We are looking for motivated, focused, curious designers with deep experience working in SaaS companies shipping exceptional products. As we build more AI-assisted workflows into Standard Metrics, we are also looking for someone who has proven experience using AI tools to strengthen their design process, and ideally has designed AI-enabled product experiences that help users understand, verify, and act on complex information. This role is an exciting mix of tactical and strategic work that will allow you to work closely with every department in the company, as well as with some of the top venture firms in the world.

Note: A portfolio is required with application of this role.

What You'll Do

• Create and validate design solutions that balance delightful usability, functionality, and technical flexibility through sketches, prototypes, and testing + iteration
• Own the end-to-end user journey across complex workflows, from ideation, to prototyping, to user testing, to final production
• Leverage user research, rapid prototyping, AI-assisted workflows, and data insights to identify ways to improve the Standard Metrics platform and user experience
• Design AI-enabled product experiences for complex B2B workflows, including moments where users need to understand, verify, correct, and trust AI-generated outputs
• Use AI-assisted design and prototyping tools to accelerate exploration, research synthesis, iteration, critique, and design-to-engineering handoff while maintaining strong product judgment
• Synthesize design, engineering, product, business, and AI system requirements that underpin complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Partner with Product and Engineering to define AI behavior, edge cases, confidence signals, feedback loops, evaluation criteria, and rollout strategy
• Welcome and actively solicit feedback from cross-functional teams and users to build better product experiences and work flows
• Document and build on design systems as they pertain to your product and providing guidance on cross-product design strategy
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering partners to influence the product roadmap, identify opportunities, and make decisions based on impact to Standard Metrics users

What You'll Bring

• 7+ years of experience in Product Design
• Deep B2B SaaS web experience, ideally including startup experience
• A portfolio showing senior-level product design work for complex workflows, ideally including shipped AI-enabled features
• Demonstrated fluency using AI tools in the design process, such as for ideation, research synthesis, prototyping, content exploration, design critique, or design-to-code collaboration
• Strong judgment around AI product UX, including uncertainty, failure states, user correction, source transparency, auditability, and responsible handling of sensitive customer data
• Experience using Figma, CSS, HTML, React, etc.
• Collaborative mindset, with experience working across disciplines and with multiple stakeholders (ex: product and marketing managers and engineers)
• Experience shipping exceptional products at a fast pace
• Ability to create simple and elegant design solutions to complicated problems
• Note: A portfolio is required with application of this role.

For our employees located in the USA, we aim to pay at or above the market rate of US-based tech hubs like San Francisco or NYC. For international roles, we aim to pay top of market for your country. The estimated annual salary for this role is between $170,000-$205,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience and qualifications.

Health and dental insurance: We cover you and your dependents' medical/dental/vision insurance 100% in the USA. Internationally we match local health coverage for you and your family.

Flexible vacation: Take time off when you need it! We find most employees take 3-4 weeks in addition to holidays, but there are no firm rules. We trust our employees to know what's best for them.

Paid parental leave: 12 weeks of paid leave for all new parents in the USA. Internationally we match parental leave standards in your area.

Complete transparency: Everyone has full access to business metrics and financial information about the company.