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You sketch in Figma, hand it to engineering, wait, get a build that does not match the spec, iterate, ship something close to the original idea. The handoff is where craft, speed, and intent get lost.\nAI tools are changing what a product designer can do. Tools like Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, v0, and modern Figma let a designer go from idea to working prototype, and increasingly to near-production interface, faster than a traditional designer-plus-engineer pair. The handoff shrinks. The designer ships more of what they design.\nThis role is for product designers who want to be at the front of that shift. Whether you are already experimenting with these tools or just curious and motivated to learn, we will invest in your growth, give you the time and the support, and help you evolve into what the industry is calling a design engineer. You set the pace.\nWe are building a unified financial platform that combines trading, investing, crypto, and everyday spending into a single account. Five pillars. Different latencies, different mental models, different levels of complexity. All inside one app on a phone screen. In a product that moves people’s money, polish is not a nice-to-have. It is what makes the product trustworthy.\nWHAT YOU OWN\nThe design system from scratch: components, primitives, tokens, motion language, accessibility patterns, built to scale across all five pillars\n\nEnd-to-end product surfaces: discovery, exploration, high-fidelity design, prototyping, partnership with engineering through to ship\n\nAnimation and interaction design: gestures, transitions, micro-interactions that make the product feel alive\n\nCross-pillar consistency: making sure trading, investing, crypto, and cards feel like one product, not five\n\nYour own evolution: pulling AI tools and frontend skills into your workflow over time so you can prototype and ship more of what you design directly\n\nYou work shoulder-to-shoulder with other product designers, product managers, and engineers. You own the result, not the artifact.\nHOW YOU OPERATEYou are curious about AI tools and excited to make them part of your workflow. Maybe you are already using Claude or Cursor on the side. Maybe you have heard about Claude Code and v0 but have not gone deep yet. Both are fine. What matters is the direction of travel.\nWe will invest time, training, and tooling in helping you become self-sufficient at prototyping and shipping using AI. By the end of year one, you should be operating much closer to a design engineer than to a traditional product designer. That is the deal we are offering, and it is rare.\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\nThe design system is in production within six months, with clear rules other teams adopt\n\nThe app has a recognisable visual and interaction signature\n\nPolish gaps between pillars close. The product feels like one app, not a federation of features.\n\nYou are visibly more self-sufficient at prototyping and shipping by the end of year one\n\nNew product surfaces inherit craft instead of fighting for it\n\nRequirementsRequired\n5+ years as a product designer shipping consumer products at quality\n\nStrong taste. You have shipped interfaces that look and feel deliberately different from the average.\n\nFluent in Figma, motion, interaction design, and design systems thinking\n\nCurious about AI tools and motivated to make them part of how you work, even if you are not there yet\n\nComfort working close to code. 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