Founding Product Designer

Creative People; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative People, a high-growth financial infrastructure company, is transforming the private asset market with an AI‑native platform. This senior design role starts the product design function from the ground up and defines how AI and human workflows feel like one product.

You will lead design strategy, establish system-first approaches with Engineering, and shape cohesive experiences across deterministic and AI‑driven interactions. A strong portfolio and clear product storytelling are essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing and shipping AI-native interaction patterns.
• Strong systems thinking and platform-level decision making.
• Experience working with Engineering on architecture and design-to-engineering processes.
• Exceptional portfolio showing visual craft, typography, interaction design, and product judgment.
• Excellent written, verbal, and storytelling skills.
• Clear point of view on how AI is changing software products and interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the product design function, including team structure, processes, and craft standards.
• Establish a design-to-engineering approach for a system-first product model.
• Define how deterministic and AI-native interactions coexist across the product.
• Make platform-level decisions about design systems and reusable patterns.
• Partner with Engineering on architecture, systems, and implementation.
• Collaborate with Product on commercial translation, prioritization, and sequencing.
• Represent design in leadership discussions and roadmap decisions.

Skills

AI-native design

Systems thinking

Design-Engineering collaboration

Product storytelling

UI portfolio

Job description

Join a high-growth financial infrastructure company transforming the private asset market—one of the fastest-growing segments in global finance. Its live, revenue-generating platform manages complex, multi-party workflows across the full lifecycle of private asset transactions for leading financial institutions.

The Mission

Build the infrastructure that powers private asset transactions over their full 5–7-year lifecycle. The platform must support multiple parties, evolving permissions, recurring workflows, and new deal structures—while making AI a first-class participant alongside human users.

The Role

This is a senior design opportunity to build the product design function from the ground up. You’ll define what an AI-native financial platform should look and feel like—deciding which workflows require exceptional interfaces and which are becoming infrastructure that AI agents and other products can access directly. You’ll shape a cohesive experience across deterministic, human-led workflows and emerging AI-native interactions, ensuring they feel like one product rather than two systems bolted together.

You will:

• Build and lead the product design function, including its team structure, processes, and craft standards.
• Establish a design-to-engineering approach for a system-first product model, where the underlying platform is designed before the interface.
• Define how deterministic and AI-native interactions coexist across the product.
• Make platform-level decisions about design systems, reusable patterns, permissions, and where structural variation should live.
• Partner closely and technically with Engineering on architecture, systems, and implementation.
• Collaborate with Product on commercial translation, prioritization, and sequencing.
• Represent design in leadership discussions and roadmap decisions.
• Help evolve how Design, Product, and Engineering work together.

What They’re Looking For

• Hands‑on experience designing and shipping AI‑native interaction patterns—not just a perspective on them.
• Strong systems thinking and experience making platform- and design-system‑level decisions.
• A track record of working closely with Engineering on technical architecture and design-to-engineering processes.
• An exceptional portfolio demonstrating visual craft, typography, interaction design, and strong product judgment.
• Excellent written, verbal, and storytelling skills.
• A clear point of view on how AI is changing the nature of software products and interfaces.