Senior Product Designer

Highbeam; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding team opportunity

Equity

NYC NoHo office

Generous PTO

Health benefits

Stipends for lunch/commute/wellness

Annual offsite

Job summary

Highbeam, a NYC/ Toronto fintech startup, is seeking a product designer to craft end-to-end interfaces for complex financial workflows. You will translate data and money movement into clear, trustworthy experiences and collaborate with product and engineering to ship quickly.

You'll join a founding team and help shape the design culture, with a focus on hierarchy, polish, and usability in payments and cash management tools. In-person collaboration in NYC NoHo or Toronto preferred.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a product designer, ideally on fintech, financial tools, or SMB products with a product-led growth approach.
• Comfort designing workflow-driven products; understanding (or interest in learning) of basic financial concepts as applied to SMB businesses.
• High craft and strong UX rigor with a thoughtful focus on hierarchy, interaction, and polish that turns complexity into intuitive experiences.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and business teams.
• Demonstrated ability to make thoughtful tradeoffs between clarity, usability, and scope in complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end product experiences for financial workflows such as payments, financial workflows and controls
• Translate complex financial concepts and customer needs into simple, intuitive, and trustworthy interfaces
• Work closely with product and engineers to scope, iterate, and ship quickly
• Collaborate with customers as needed to validate assumptions and refine designs
• Contribute to shared design principles and patterns across the product
• Help build a strong product and design culture through thoughtful collaboration

Skills

Product design

UX design

Fintech understanding

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Tradeoff decisions

Job description

Highbeam is building the future of business banking and cash management.

Our platform combines AI agents, automated financial workflows, and integrated financial products that save brands time and money.

Customers have generated billions in sales and include well-known brands such as Cuts, Tushy, NYON, Sabah, Still Here, Alice Mushrooms, Original Grain, birddogs, and more.

Our team includes alumni of Shopify, Square, Toast, Rippling, and McKinsey.

We’ve raised $42M in equity from Acrew, FirstMark, Mayfield, and Two Sigma Ventures.

About this role

We believe great design is essential to building trusted financial products. Our customers rely on us to help them understand their cash flow, make financial decisions, and run their businesses with confidence. In this role, you’ll help design clear, intuitive interfaces for complex financial workflows - turning raw data, money movement, and financial controls into products that feel simple and reliable.

You’ll be a core contributor to the design of our fintech platform, working closely with product and engineering to shape how brand founders interact with their finances every day.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end product experiences for financial workflows such as payments, financial workflows and controls

• Translate complex financial concepts and customer needs into simple, intuitive, and trustworthy interfaces

• Work closely with product and engineers to scope, iterate, and ship quickly

• Collaborate with customers as needed to validate assumptions and refine designs

• Contribute to shared design principles and patterns across the product

• Help build a strong product and design culture through thoughtful collaboration

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a product designer, ideally on fintech, financial tools, or SMB products with a product-led growth approach

• Comfort designing workflow-driven products; understanding (or interest in learning) of basic financial concepts as applied to SMB businesses

• High craft and strong UX rigor with a thoughtful focus on hierarchy, interaction, and polish that turns complexity into intuitive experiences

• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and business teams

• Demonstrated ability to make thoughtful tradeoffs between clarity, usability, and scope in complex systems

You’ll thrive at Highbeam if…

• You love working in-person with a high-performing team

• You enjoy working in an idea-meritocratic, low-ego environment

• You are proactive and self-directed, and you excel in ambiguous, fast moving environments

• You care about delivering a polished customer experience

• Bonus: You have experience working in fintech, AI or early-stage startups

What we offer

• Chance to join the founding team of a well-funded startup chasing a huge opportunity

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity

• Great location: Our NYC office is in NoHo, a short walk from the A,C,E · B,D,F,M · N,Q,R,W · 1 · 6 trains. Our Toronto office is downtown near St. Andrew Station.

• Generous PTO

• Comprehensive health & benefits package

• Stipends for lunch, commute, wellness, and purchasing customer products

• Yearly offsite—last year we went to Mexico City!