Finary is a social investing platform where you can talk about investments with friends, join communities around investing topics you're interested in, and make trades with your existing brokerage. We're backed by Y Combinator and Upfront Ventures, investors in Ring (acq. by Amazon) and Maker Studios (acq. by Disney). Our team is on a mission to build the world's best investing community.
Description
As a Finary Product Designer, you will ensure our products and features are valuable for people, easy to use, and of the highest level of craft and execution. You will utilize your full range of product design, interaction design, and visual design skills. You'll be involved in everything design.
Beyond raw design skill, we are looking for someone who can work efficiently and creatively in a cross-functional and fast-paced environment—someone who can think on their feet and take initiative. We want you to help define what we're doing, why we're doing it, and also how we do it. As our first full-time design hire, you will play a big part in molding our company culture and building a strong, lasting product team.
This is an in-person role at our HQ in New York City.
Responsibilities
Plan, prioritize, and execute at every stage of the design lifecycle—wireframes, competitive analysis, user research, prototypes, usability tests, asset design, and high fidelity design
Take conceptual ideas, technical requirements, and **business **insights **and turn them into something valuable for our different user groups
Propose projects, plan the product roadmap, and contribute to strategic decisions around the future direction of the Finary platform
Lead design reviews and sprints with a cross-functional team in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
Refine and evolve our own design language
Qualifications
2+ years in UX, UI, or product design experience, building and shipping software/applications at the level of whole features & products