As a Product Designer at Ridgeline, you’ll help breathe new life into an industry marked by complex and aging software. We’re looking for passion and a broad skill set: our ideal candidate will feel comfortable working on interaction design, visual design, prototyping and user research. This is an opportunity to help shape our company’s vision, the way we approach problem solving, and to ensure our product fulfills the ambitious promises we make to our customers. Our designers are not pixel pushers; they are business savvy creatives, the heartbeat of our product development process.

You are an influential designer and are known for contributing to the most complex projects. You have a strong knowledge of your craft. You have a strong desire to execute and mentor, which will be crucial to Ridgeline’s success.

We are looking for forward-thinking designers who are passionate about creating meaningful change in the investment management space. If you have a background in financial services and a knack for tackling complex design problems, we would love to hear from you.

Join Our Trade Order Management Team

As a key member of the Trade Order Management team at Ridgeline, you will have the unique opportunity to shape the future of investment management software. Our team is at the forefront of simplifying and streamlining the complex workflows of trade order management, compliance, order generation, order management, and portfolio analytics. By joining us, you will:

• Drive Innovation in Investment Management: Contribute to the design and development of a unified platform that enables firms to conduct all their operations seamlessly. Your work will directly impact the efficiency and effectiveness of trading processes, redefining how firms approach their daily tasks.
• Solve Complex Design Challenges: Tackle the intricate challenges of displaying and managing vast amounts of financial data in ways that are intuitive, accessible, and actionable for our users.
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with product, engineering, and strategy teams to ensure our trading system not only meets but exceeds the evolving needs of our customers.
• Impact the Investment Ecosystem: Your designs will play a significant role in how investment management firms operate, offering them a competitive edge through superior order management and analytics capabilities. This is a chance to leave a lasting impact on the investment industry, making it more efficient, compliant, and data-driven.
• Leverage Your Financial Services Experience: Ideal candidates will bring a deep understanding of the financial services industry, particularly in areas related to trading and analytics. Your prior experience and insights will be invaluable as we strive to meet the specific needs of our users, ensuring our platform remains at the cutting edge of investment management technology.

What will you do?

• Use your UX and visual design skills to wireframe, prototype, and test new product ideas
• Define the visual language and overall design system of our applications
• Engage in a user-centered design process that works closely with our strategy, product,  and engineering teams
• Conduct user research and design thinking sessions with customers and subject matter experts
• Work alongside our engineers to build your designs using modern front-end frameworks and AWS back-end services
• Think creatively, own problems, seek solutions, and communicate clearly along the way
• Contribute to a collaborative environment deeply rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency

The Ridgeline design team has a set of design skills we hire against and use to measure ourselves internally. It helps us with the quality of our team, and it drives and measures individual career growth.

Our designers can:

• Address and focus on business needs
• Deal with and understand complexity
• Communicate & present their work
• Define the information architecture of the products they work on
• Build experiences that have solid interaction design
• Manage their projects & resources
• Use research to inform their designs
• Think about the system in which their work sits
• Create pleasing visual designs
• Manage their workflow efficiently

Desired Skills and Experience

• 6+ years of experience in digital product design
• Track record of designing and shipping successful digital experiences with the ability to help us understand how success is defined
• Excellent interaction design, visual design, and prototyping skills
• Experience using a design-thinking process to promote success, learnings, and value
• Ability to work with engineering to build creative, feasible solutions that meet our business objectives
• Strong problem solving and storytelling skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels
• Ability to mentor and coach other designers
• Can gather insights and share them out to a larger team to grow the skills and processes of the team
• Able to help in the planning, scoping, and scheduling of design work
• A shareable portfolio (attachment or online)

Bonus:

• Experience conducting user research/usability testing
• Proficiency with modern front-end frameworks (React, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS)
• Experience developing design systems

About Ridgeline

Ridgeline is the industry cloud platform for investment management. It was founded in 2017 by visionary entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of both PeopleSoft and Workday) to address the unique technology challenges of an industry in need of new thinking. We are building a modern platform in the public cloud, purpose-built for the investment management industry to empower business like never before. 

Headquartered in Lake Tahoe with offices in Reno, Manhattan, and the Bay Area, Ridgeline is proud to have built a fast-growing, people-first company that has been recognized by Fast Company as a “Best Workplace for Innovators,” by LinkedIn as a “Top U.S. Startup,” and by The Software Report as a “Top 100 Software Company.”

Ridgeline is proud to be a community-minded, discrimination-free equal opportunity workplace.

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Compensation and Benefits 

[For New York and California Based Only]

The cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $155,000-$182,500. Final compensation amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amount listed above. 

As an employee at Ridgeline, you’ll have many opportunities for advancement in your career and can make a true impact on the product. 

In addition to the base salary, 100% of Ridgeline employees can participate in our Company Stock Plan subject to the applicable Stock Option Agreement. We also offer rich benefits that reflect the kind of organization we want to be: one in which our employees feel valued and are inspired to bring their best selves to work. These include unlimited vacation, educational and wellness reimbursements, and $0 cost employee insurance plans. Please check out our Careers page for a more comprehensive overview of our perks and benefits.

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