OpenFX - Head of Product Design

Miami (USA), London (UK), Dubai (UAE), Bengaluru (India)3mo ago

In Office Director APAC Banking Cryptocurrency Product Designer Reporting B2B Documentation

Requirements

• 8+ Years in Design with Financial Systems Leadership:You have 8+ years of design experience with at least 3 years leading design for trading systems, market-making platforms, treasury management tools, or institutional financial software. You have designed interfaces where millions of dollars move based on user actions, and you understand the unique requirements of building for high-stakes financial decision-making. • 8+ Years in Design with Financial Systems Leadership: • Trading UI/UX Expertise:You have deep, hands-on experience with trading UI/UX patterns—order books, position management, P&L visualization, risk dashboards, and real-time data displays. You have wrestled with the challenge of presenting dense financial information clearly without overwhelming users, and you know how to design for both novice operators and expert power users within the same platform. • Trading UI/UX Expertise: • Banking and Payments Product Knowledge:You bring substantial knowledge of banking and payments products, understanding how financial institutions think about onboarding flows, KYC/compliance interfaces, reconciliation tools, reporting systems, and operational workflows. You have designed for regulated environments and appreciate the balance between innovation and institutional requirements. • Banking and Payments Product Knowledge: • Systems Thinking:You are a systems thinker who can architect comprehensive design frameworks while also obsessing over pixel-perfect details. You know when to standardize components and when custom solutions are warranted. You understand how design decisions at the component level cascade into product-wide implications. • Systems Thinking: • Collaborative and Pragmatic:You are collaborative and pragmatic, knowing how to partner effectively with product managers and engineers to make smart tradeoffs under constraints. You can articulate design rationale that connects user needs to business outcomes, and you are comfortable making decisions with imperfect information while moving quickly. • Collaborative and Pragmatic: • Portfolio Evidence:You can point to a portfolio demonstrating your experience with financial services design, particularly trading systems or institutional platforms. Your portfolio shows both strategic vision and execution excellence. • Portfolio Evidence: • Preferred • Digital Asset Fluency:You are fluent in both fiat and digital asset contexts. Whether it's traditional FX trading, payment processing, or blockchain-based settlement, you understand the fundamental operations and can translate complex technical concepts into elegant user experiences. Experience with stablecoins, DeFi protocols, or crypto trading platforms is a significant advantage. • Digital Asset Fluency: • Design System Architecture:Experience building design systems from scratch for complex B2B platforms, including component libraries, design tokens, and documentation systems that enable non-designers to build consistent interfaces. • Design System Architecture: • User Research in Institutional Contexts:Experience conducting user research with institutional clients—understanding how to extract insights from busy financial professionals and translate them into actionable design improvements. • User Research in Institutional Contexts:

Responsibilities

• Audit and Rebuild • In your first six months, you will conduct a comprehensive audit of our current design system and user experience, identifying critical gaps where design debt is creating operational friction or limiting our ability to scale. You will establish the foundation for a world-class design organization. • Design Financial Tooling • You will work closely with our product and engineering teams to improve our trading and treasury management interfaces, bringing sophisticated financial operations tooling to life through clean, purposeful design. • Build the Design System • You will create a scalable design system and component library that enables rapid iteration without sacrificing quality or consistency. • Build and Mentor the Team • You will build and mentor a design team as we scale, establishing the culture, processes, and standards that will define design excellence at OpenFX. • Shape Design Strategy • You will partner effectively with product managers and engineers to make smart tradeoffs under constraints. You will articulate design rationale that connects user needs to business outcomes.

Benefits

• Design Leadership:You will be joining at an inflection point where design can fundamentally shape our product trajectory and competitive positioning. As we scale, you will define the hiring standards, the voice, and the culture of the design organization. • Design Leadership: • The Frontier of Fintech:You will work on technically sophisticated problems at the frontier of fintech innovation, helping to build the infrastructure that powers the next generation of global money movement. You will learn the inner workings of global finance (FX liquidity, settlement, treasury), but you will apply them to the new payment stack as well as legacy rails of the past. • The Frontier of Fintech: • Direct User Access:You will have direct access to institutional users—banks, payment providers, and fintech companies managing billions in transaction volume. You will see the immediate impact of your design decisions on real financial operations. • Direct User Access: • The Team:You are joining a team of ex-Stripe, J.P. Morgan, and PayPal product managers and engineers. We are backed by Accel and Lightspeed, and we value design as a core part of the product. We are scaling our infrastructure to meet exponential demand while building the future of money movement. • The Team: • To apply: Please submit your portfolio demonstrating your experience with financial services design, particularly trading systems or institutional platforms, along with your resume. • To apply: