Product Designer - AI-Driven Trading & Investment Workflows

Ridgeline; Reno (NV); On-site; USD 168,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Wellness reimbursements

Education reimbursements

0 cost employee insurance

Job summary

Ridgeline is seeking a Product Designer to modernize trading workflows within investment management software. You will partner with product managers, engineers, and customers to craft experiences that enhance clarity, speed, and accuracy in order management and electronic trading.

You will translate complex technical systems into intuitive user experiences, working across configurable dashboards and AI-enabled workflows, while contributing to design systems and AI practices.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience designing and shipping digital product experiences.
• Strong interaction design, systems thinking, visual design, and prototyping skills.
• Experience designing complex workflows, data-intensive applications, or enterprise software platforms.
• Active AI-native workflow experience using tools like Claude, Cursor, or Claude Code as part of daily product and design practice.
• Ability to simplify technically complex systems into intuitive user experiences.
• Experience collaborating closely with engineering teams to deliver thoughtful, scalable solutions.
• Strong storytelling, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to mentor and coach other designers while raising quality across a broader organization.
• Experience gathering customer insights and translating findings into actionable product improvements.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, prioritize effectively, and drive clarity across cross-functional teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a high level of product ownership.
• Willingness to learn about cutting-edge technologies while cultivating expertise in investment management workflows and order management systems.

Responsibilities

• Reimagine workflows across order management and electronic trading, helping investment teams manage increasingly complex trading activity with clarity and efficiency.
• Design intuitive workflows that help traders navigate complex decisions, surface actionable information, and manage exceptions and alerts with speed and accuracy.
• Extend existing patterns and frameworks like Ridgeline’s configurable dashboards into trading, creating flexible workspaces that users can tailor to their workflows and priorities.
• Build intelligent trading experiences that incorporate automated and deterministic workflows, AI-assisted guidance, and emerging AI capabilities.
• Prototype and iterate quickly using tools like Claude, Cursor, and Claude Code to explore workflows, edge cases, and interaction patterns.
• Translate concepts into polished, production-ready experiences in Figma with strong systems thinking and visual craft.
• Collaborate closely with engineering to ensure designs are feasible, scalable, and thoughtfully implemented.
• Contribute to Ridgeline’s design systems, interaction patterns, prompt libraries, and AI design practices.
• Conduct customer conversations, lightweight research, and usability testing to rapidly validate ideas and improve workflows.
• Mentor designers through feedback, collaboration, and thoughtful design critique.
• Think creatively, own problems, seek solutions, and communicate clearly along the way.
• Contribute to a collaborative environment deeply rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency.

Skills

Interaction design

Systems thinking

Visual design

Prototyping

AI-native workflows

Storytelling

Stakeholder collaboration

Mentoring

Product ownership

Communication

Tools

Figma

Claude

Cursor

Claude Code

Job description

Ridgeline is seeking a Product Designer to modernize trading workflows within investment management software. You will partner with product managers, engineers, and customers to craft experiences that enhance clarity, speed, and accuracy in order management and electronic trading.

You will translate complex technical systems into intuitive user experiences, working across configurable dashboards and AI-enabled workflows, while contributing to design systems and AI practices.