About the role

Role Overview

Founding Product Designer at SyntheticFi (remote, full-time). You’ll work directly with the co-founders with broad scope across Product and UX design—and you will help set product direction since the company does not have PMs.

Responsibilities

Partner closely with the Co-Founders and Product Engineers to define product direction.
Ask sharp questions to understand user workflows and underlying business logic.
Identify what truly needs to be solved before jumping into design.
Conduct and synthesize user conversations to solve customer needs.
Deliver high-polish UI/UX across a product with both B2B and B2C elements.
Tackle complex, non-trivial UX problems for a sophisticated financial product.
Push the envelope on design standards in an industry without clear existing parallels.

Requirements

Product Designer experience, demonstrated via a portfolio.
Experience designing web applications, including reasoning about complex B2B workflows.
Proficiency with Figma.
Experience building or significantly contributing to a design system.
Must be based in the United States.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $120K–$175K
Equity: 0.25%–1.0%
Full benefits including 100% paid employee health plans and employer-funded 401(k) match (plus dental/vision).

Nice-to-haves (implicit)

Familiarity with US financial products and consumer-grade UX expectations for demanding retail users.

About SyntheticFi

SyntheticFi is a fast-growing FinTech startup focused on securities-backed lending. It partners with Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) to let their clients access the SPX box spread market, providing institutional liquidity for retail borrowing at comparable rates. Since launching in early 2025, it has seen strong month-over-month growth and manages regulatory AUM for hundreds of RIA firms.

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