Lead Product Designer

Mission

OpenFX is building the infrastructure layer for institutional money movement at a global scale. We sit at the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets, working with institutional users who move large volumes across currencies and care deeply about operational clarity in their money flows.

As a Lead Product Designer, you will help make complex financial infrastructure feel clear, trustworthy, and efficient. You'll work across client-facing trading experiences, internal operational tools, and the communications that connect both. The work goes beyond visual polish. It's about making intricate financial logic understandable to the people who rely on it every day.

This isn't a role where you'll inherit a mature design system and optimize funnels. You'll design for multi-currency payments product, compliance-gated workflows, and users who understand these systems better than most people building it. The work pushes well past what's traditionally considered the domain of a designer and you'll need to reason about state machines, data models, and operational risk, and turn that reasoning into interfaces that make complex things feel simple.

Every year, migrants send over $656 billion home to their families, three times more than all foreign aid combined. But they lose more than $40 billion of that to transfer fees. The World Bank has shown that a 10% increase in per capita remittances leads to a 3.5% decline in the share of people living in poverty. When the cost and time of moving money goes down, the effects are measurable and material, more children in school, more small businesses funded, more families above the poverty line.

This is the infrastructure you'd be helping to shape.

The way design works inside organizations is changing fast. AI is collapsing the distance between idea and artifact. Cross-functional boundaries are blurring. The traditional sequence of brief → wireframe → spec → handoff is giving way to something faster, more fluid, and less clearly defined. At OpenFX, you won't inherit someone else's process, you'll author it. You'll help shape how design, product, and engineering collaborate, how decisions get made, and what the culture of a design-aware company actually looks like when it's built from the ground up.

• You think in systems, not just screens. Our platform is interconnected, and a single action can affect multiple surfaces, states, and user types. We're looking for someone who can map these relationships, think through edge cases, and approach design holistically.
• You can design and map interfaces that behave differently depending on context, whether that's user permissions, account configuration, feature flags, or time-sensitive conditions.
• You have experience working with information-dense environments like dashboards, tables, and summary views, and you understand how hierarchy and progressive disclosure help users make better decisions.

• You're familiar with financial product concepts, or you pick up new domains quickly. A finance background isn't required, but we value designers who take the time to understand the domain well enough to contribute to product decisions, not just execute on them.
• You've designed for professional, repeat-use products where users are experts in their own field, use the product daily, and prioritize speed, density, and predictability.
• You understand that in institutional products, how you communicate a constraint or an error matters. A poorly worded message can affect a customer relationship. You think carefully about how the product handles moments of friction.

• You have a strong eye for visual design across layout, typography, color, and hierarchy. We'll look at your work to understand this.
• You can clearly articulate your product and interaction decisions. User flows, information structures, and functional design choices should be grounded in how they serve the end user, and you're comfortable…