Product Design Lead

AngelList
San Francisco, CA
On-site

Who this role is best for

Candidates with experience in complex financial systems and leadership in design will find this senior role with a hybrid work arrangement and cross-functional collaboration pattern rewarding.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 8+ years of design experience in financial domains and leadership aspirations
    — “helping people start and operate venture funds
  • Candidates who can balance product excellence with ecosystem-wide design coherence
    — “define the connective tissue across them
  • Candidates who thrive in hybrid environments with periodic in-office attendance
    — “hybrid in-office model: teammates come in at least 2 days per week

Things to consider

  • Requires periodic in-office presence in San Francisco or New York City
    — “teammates come in at least 2 days per week (Tuesdays and either Wednesday or Thursday)

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience designing for interconnected financial systems and brand ecosystems
    — “complex financial systems with interconnected brand dynamics
  • Emphasize leadership in design team development and mentorship
    — “recruiting, leading and developing a small team of elite designers
  • Demonstrate a track record of elevating design quality and setting principles for teams
    — “raise the quality bar across our products and establish the principles
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · CompanyLevel · Lead

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • Drive product design across each business
  • Build and lead the design team
  • Raise the quality bar across products
  • Establish design principles and systems
Typical background
8+ years as Product Designer2+ years in a formal management role

Skills & requirements

Required

Product DesignTeam LeadershipInteraction And Visual DesignCustomer UnderstandingResearch And Insights

Preferred

Complex Domain ExperienceInterconnected Brand DynamicsHigh-quality Craft And QualityMentoring And Developing Designers

Stack & domain

Product DesignInteraction DesignVisual DesignSystem ThinkingMentoringCommunicationCollaborationFinancePrivate Markets

About the role

Original posting from AngelList via Lever

Why Join AngelList 

We’re solving some of the hardest problems in venture capital and private markets. You’ll work with a team that values precision, urgency, and long-term thinking. If you want to shape how startups are funded and built, this is the place.

About AngelList

We exist to accelerate innovation by increasing the number of successful startups in the world. We do this by building the financial infrastructure that makes it easier for more people to invest in world-changing companies.

AngelList is the nexus of venture capital and the startup community. We support $171B+ in assets and have powered investments into over 13,000 startups—over 300 of which are unicorns. Today, 57% of top-tier U.S. VC deals involve investors on AngelList. While our scale is large, our ambition is larger.

If you're excited to build the future of private markets, come build with us.

About the Role

For the past five years, AngelList has been known for one thing: helping people start and operate venture funds. That’s changed in the past year. We’ve been building new banking, payments, wealth, and asset management business across multiple new brands, and are looking for a Product Design Lead who will help them grow into a coherent ecosystem.

You will be responsible for driving product design across each business, helping teams iterate toward products that win their markets. At the same time, many of our customers will use more than one part of AngelList over the course of their financial lives. An investor may first come to us to invest in a fund, later use another product to manage their assets, and eventually start a fund of their own.

The opportunity in this role is to do both: build excellent products within each division and also define the connective tissue across them. As part of this, you will build and lead the design team, raise the quality bar across our products, and establish the principles, systems, and discovery practices that will enable AngelList to becoming the leading financial institution for private markets.

Responsibilities:

  • Operate as a player-coach on a lean design team, partnering with cross-functional teams to build thoughtful product experiences, and recruiting, leading and developing a small team of elite designers.
  • Elevate AngelList’s capacity for high-quality interaction and visual design, crafting elegant, intuitive experiences across complex financial systems
  • Deeply understand the range of AngelList customers, and use research and insights to clarify problems and deliver great design solutions

You might be a good fit if you::

  • Have 8+ years as Product Designer, and 2+ years in a formal management role, with specific experience working in complex domains with interconnected brand dynamics
  • Are a systems thinker with strong interaction and visual design skills, hold a high bar for craft and quality, and enjoy mentoring and developing other designers to do the same
  • Understand that deep thinking, clear product vision, and customer obsession are some of the most important things designers bring to a team
  • Enjoy collaborating on tight-knit cross-functional teams, and orienting problem-solving dynamics to yield ambitious outcomes

Working Here

If you don’t meet every requirement above, we still encourage you to apply. We value complementary strengths and operators who learn by doing.

AngelList has offices in a few cities, New York City and San Francisco. We have a hybrid in-office model: teammates come in at least 2 days per week (Tuesdays and either Wednesday or Thursday). 

Compensation:

The compensation for this role consists of a competitive base salary, benefits, and equity package. The base salary for this role is $270,000+ annually but actual will vary based on a number of factors including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Additional details about our Total Rewards package will be provided during the recruitment process.

Benefits:We support your life both in and outside of work.

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Learn about Funders & Founders

What Guides Us:At AngelList, we are united in our purpose to accelerate innovation and build the future of private markets. Our beliefs and values shape what we work on and how we create impact. If the below resonate, we’d love to have you with us.

Our beliefs

Our values & leadership expectations

AngelList is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Source: AngelList careers (Lever)

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