Staff Product Designer

1d1 day ago

Alpaca

Remote · Full-time

About this role

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer delivering institutional-grade APIs for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto and fixed income. The company serves hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries and powers more than nine million brokerage accounts.

As Staff Product Designer you will own end-to-end design for complex web and mobile applications, guiding projects from user research through pixel-perfect execution while raising overall design quality across dashboards.

You will join a globally distributed team of 380+ engineers, traders and brokerage professionals who work from locations spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil and the UK.

The role offers the chance to shape design processes and rituals, explore thoughtful application of AI, and help deliver on the mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet.

Requirements

12+ years of experience in product design with a track record of delivering design quality across multiple end-user touchpoints in a fast-paced environment.
Experience leading a team of designers across multiple end-user experiences while aligning the team around product priorities and user-centred strategy.
Hands-on contributor who continues to deliver high-quality design work alongside leadership responsibilities.
Passionate about understanding user needs through research and metrics and advocating for user experience throughout the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end design for complex web and mobile applications from user research and discovery to pixel-perfect execution.
Deeply understand diverse global B2B and B2C users as well as internal teams and advocate for their needs throughout the product lifecycle.
Support efforts to shape and evolve design processes and rituals while exploring and applying AI to improve collaboration and efficiency.
Proactively bring stakeholders and users through the design process to deliver projects.
Manage multiple product and feature launches across dashboards while consistently raising design quality.