Product Design Lead

AngelList; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 270,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Benefits

Equity package

Job summary

AngelList in New York City and San Francisco is seeking a Product Design Lead to guide design across multiple brands. You will build and lead a design team, raise the quality bar, and define discovery practices to connect products across the ecosystem of private markets.

You will mentor designers, shape product vision, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver elegant, user‑centric financial experiences.

Qualifications

• 8+ years as Product Designer in complex domains.
• 2+ years in a formal management role.
• Systems thinker with strong interaction and visual design skills.
• Mentoring and developing other designers to raise craft.

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 across complex financial systems.
• Deeply understand AngelList customers, using research and insights to clarify problems and deliver great design solutions.

Skills

Product design

Team leadership

Systems thinking

Interaction design

Visual design

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

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.

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.

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. 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. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.