Founding Product Designer — Shape Core UX, Brand & Equity

Taxwire; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Job summary

Taxwire is seeking a Founding Product Designer to shape the core product UX, onboarding flows, dashboards, and workflow tools in a high-growth fintech context. You will own product design and UX from the ground up, with opportunities to influence brand from day one.

Collaborating with founders, engineers, and tax SMEs, you’ll translate complex compliance logic into intuitive interfaces, build a scalable design system, and ship polished features rapidly while balancing speed, clarity, and trust

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of professional product design experience, with a strong portfolio of shipped work (especially B2B, fintech, or data-heavy tools).
• Experience designing for complex workflows, backend systems, or enterprise use cases.
• Strong systems thinking — you’re comfortable designing scalable, reusable components and patterns.
• Excellent interaction design and visual design skills. You know what great UX looks and feels like.
• Ability to prototype quickly and work closely with engineers to get things built right.
• Clear, thoughtful communicator — especially in writing. We’re a writing-first company.
• A deep sense of ownership. You’re proactive, biased toward action, and don’t need to be told what to do.
• Bonus: experience designing for regulated or trust-critical domains (e.g. finance, healthcare, payroll, tax).
• Bonus: comfort doing light brand design (e.g. decks, website, marketing assets) in the early days

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design of Taxwire’s core product surfaces — from user onboarding and dashboards to workflow tools and internal ops interfaces.
• Translate complex compliance logic and tax rules into intuitive interfaces that users can trust and understand.
• Partner with engineers to rapidly prototype and ship polished features.
• Develop a product design system that’s scalable, accessible, and consistent across use cases.
• Collaborate with tax specialists to understand the real-world edge cases and regulatory nuance our product must support.
• Help evolve and define the company’s visual identity and voice across product, marketing, and internal tools.
• Create UX that balances speed, clarity, and trust — especially for workflows involving financial and regulatory risk.
• Contribute to product strategy, roadmap planning, and customer research alongside the founders.

Job description

Taxwire is seeking a Founding Product Designer to shape the core product UX, onboarding flows, dashboards, and workflow tools in a high-growth fintech context. You will own product design and UX from the ground up, with opportunities to influence brand from day one.

Collaborating with founders, engineers, and tax SMEs, you’ll translate complex compliance logic into intuitive interfaces, build a scalable design system, and ship polished features rapidly while balancing speed, clarity, and trust