Product Designer

About the role
We're hiring a Product Designer to own the end-to-end design features and experiences as we scale our product experience. This is a high-ownership, high-execution role for a designer who wants to continue building strong fundamentals: taking a feature from problem framing through shipped experience, working within an established design system, and partnering closely with product, engineering, and stakeholders.

You’ll play a central role in shaping user experiences through deep user research, strong design judgment, and exceptional communication.

Our product operates in a regulated environment, serving a broad range of customers from first-time investors and deal organizers to large venture capital firms. Success in this role requires balancing compliance and regulatory constraints with delivering a best-in-class, intuitive experience for complex financial workflows.

What you'll do
Own features end-to-end

Own UX tradeoffs within your features, and flag scope issues to your PM early
Personally drive design on high-impact initiatives, from discovery through delivery
Simplify complex, regulated workflows into clear, intuitive experiences that create trust for our customers
Maintain a high bar for design quality while operating with startup speed

Do feature-level research

Lead research at the feature level and proactively look for opportunities to talk to customers
Partner with Product to test assumptions and validate solutions before and after build
Act as a voice of the customer in roadmap and prioritization discussions as well as on specific initiatives
Bring qualitative and quantitative signal into your design decisions

Build craft and technical fluency

Apply and extend Sydecar's design system consistently
Design within platform constraints, and learn to spot them earlier over time
Design systems and flows that support trust, accuracy, and clarity for investors, deal organizers, and internal users

Collaborate well

Proactively share and validate work with stakeholders following team best practices
Adapt to feedback gracefully and give focused, articulate critique in return
Build direct working relationships with Product and Engineering partners on your feature

Build domain fluency

Learn core SPV workflows: closing, KYC, cap tables
Build a working understanding of how regulatory and compliance constraints shape design decisions
Identify opportunities to create more joyful and high-value experiences

What we're looking for
4+ years of product design experience
Exceptionally strong hands-on design skills, with a portfolio demonstrating end-to-end UX ownership and designs
Strong experience designing complex workflows, multi-step processes, or system-heavy products
Comfortable working within and extending an existing design system rather than starting from scratch
Experience partnering directly with Product. Engineers, and stakeholders to scope, define, and ship features
Strong communication skills, and comfortable giving and receiving direct critique
Deep experience leading and applying user research to drive strategy and execution
Curiosity about fintech, regulated industries, or complex/system-heavy products (prior experience a plus, not required)
Data-informed, with a bias toward shipping and iterating