Senior Product Designer

As a Senior 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.

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

Required Skills and Experience

• 7+ 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 method
• Ability to work with engineering to build creative, feasible solutions that meet our business objectives
• An aptitude for problem solving and storytelling
• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels
• A shareable portfolio (attachment or online)

Nice-To-Haves

• Experience conducting user research/usability testing
• Proficiency with modern front-end frameworks (React, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS)
• Experience developing design systems
• Ability to mentor and coach other designers

About Ridgeline

Ridgeline is the industry cloud platform for investment management. It was founded in 2017 by visionary tech entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of both PeopleSoft and Workday) to apply his successful formula of solving operational business challenges with bold innovation and human connectivity to the unique needs of the investment management industry. 

Ridgeline started with a clean sheet of paper and a deep bench of experts bound by a set of core values and motivated to revolutionize an industry underserved by its current tech offerings. We are building a new, modern platform in the public cloud, purpose-built for the investment management industry and we are prioritizing security, agility, and usability to empower business like never before.

Headquartered in Lake Tahoe with offices in Reno, NV and Manhattan, Ridgeline is proud to have built a fast-growing, people-first company that has been recognized by Inc. Magazine, Glassdoor, and Northern Nevada as a “Best Place to Work” and by LinkedIn as a “Top U.S. Startup.” 

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

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