Lead/Senior Product Designer

Public is an investing platform that allows people to invest in stocks, ETFs, treasuries, crypto, art, collectibles, and more – all in one place.

Public’s platform helps people be better investors with access to custom company metrics, live shows about the markets, and real-time analysis. Members control how they invest with a suite of powerful tools, and get insights from a community of millions of investors, creators, and analysts.

Since 2019, Public has raised over $300 million. Investors include Accel, Tiger Global, Will Smith's Dreamers VC, The Chainsmokers' Mantis VC, and Shari Redstone's Advancit Capital, as well as renowned figures in business and culture, like Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Maria Sharapova, Tony Hawk, and NYU Stern professor Scott Galloway.

This role is based in our NYC office and will require you to go in three days a week.

About the role:

With founders who have design backgrounds, Design at Public is an organizational priority and a strategic differentiator. Our team partners to help uncover opportunities, generate possible solutions, and craft experiences. We leverage human-centered design practices and evidence to guide principle-based strategies and decisions, leading to the delivery of innovative experiences our members love - and help Public grow.

We’re looking for a collaborative Lead/Senior Product Designer to play a critical role in shaping our product experience to support our mission to make the markets work for all people. This role is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned, growth-minded, end-to-end product designer with deep experience who wants to play a hands-on role in helping to deliver an innovative product experience through our next phase of growth.

• Lead design for one of our core experiences
• Deliver crafted design solutions and innovations that drive member and business outcomes
• Design multiple variations of new features and optimizations of existing features within a complex ecosystem
• Work in partnership with your immediate team and cross-functional stakeholders to uncover areas of opportunity and help to shape best-in-class product experiences end-to-end
• Independently and in collaboration with other team members, leverage user research methodologies and feedback to make evidence-based design decisions
• Contribute to growing and evolving our design system
• Help to influence the growth of other designers and champion our design culture
• Prioritize work based on the highest potential benefit and actively drive initiatives

• An ambitious end-to-end designer capable of delivering from insight to execution
• Always strive to create useful, usable, and desirable user experiences
• A natural systems thinker adept at seeing and anticipating the interplay between differing areas of our experience
• Passionate for data-driven decision making and empathetic problem solving
• Committed to working in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders
• Proven to thrive in iterative and highly collaborative environments
• Comfortable prioritizing effectively and flexibly handling changes 
• Strong organization skills and ability to lead multiple projects concurrently
• An effective communicator across all levels and teams
• A collaborative and thoughtful teammate with a growth mindset
• Experience leveraging HCD methods and current design tools such as Figma
• Experience designing consumer-facing experiences for investment products is a plus

Public is an equal employment opportunity employer to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. We celebrate people of all race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression.

The pay range for this position in NYC is $160,000 - $200,000/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Base pay information is based on market location.