Alpaca
Financial Services
StaffProductDesigner
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“Staff Product Designer at Alpaca. Skills: Product Design, Leadership, User Research, Cross-functional Collaboration. Lead the end-to-end design for complex web and mobile applications, from user research and discovery to pixel-perfect execution. Deeply understand our diverse user base (global B2B and B2C customers, as well as internal teams) and advocate for their needs throughout the product development lifecycle”
What You'll Achieve.
Improving the design quality of our products globally; Consistently raising design quality
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
12+ years of experience in product design, Track record of consistently delivering design quality across multiple end-user touchpoints in a fast-paced environment, Led a team of designers across multiple end-user experiences, aligning the team around product priorities and user-centred design strategy, while also delivering high-quality design work as a hands-on contributor, Passionate about understanding user needs through research and metrics and advocating for user experience throughout the product lifecycle, regardless of touchpoint, Facilitate alignment across product, engineering, and other relevant teams, advocating for user needs with data and research, Experience standing up processes, rituals, and standards to ensure design consistency across the product ecosystem, Solid understanding of working with API based products, advocating for user needs within API development, and a understanding of how designs are implemented
What You'll Do.
Lead the end-to-end design for complex web and mobile applications
from user research and discovery to pixel-perfect execution
Deeply understand our diverse user base (global B2B and B2C customers
as well as internal teams) and advocate for their needs throughout the product development lifecycle
Support efforts to shape and evolve design processes and rituals
exploring and applying AI thoughtfully to improve collaboration
Proactively bring stakeholders and users through the design process to bring projects to life
Manage multiple product and feature launches across our dashboards while consistently raising design quality
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with talented colleagues; Facilitate alignment across product, engineering, and other relevant teams; Proactively bring stakeholders and users through the design process
Process & Methodology
Manage multiple product and feature launches
Full Job Description
Who We Are: Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series D funding round brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 9 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it. Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator. Our Team Members: We're a dynamic team of 380+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond! We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply. Your Role: We're looking for a passionate and experienced Lead Product Designer to join our growing team. In this role, you'll play a key part in shaping the future of product design at Alpaca. You'll help bring design thinking to product development by collaborating with talented colleagues and improving the design
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