Alpaca is a fast-growing series B fintech company that’s raised over $120 million in funding.
Alpaca is an API-first stock and crypto platform that enables developers and businesses across the world to build trading algorithms, applications, and brokerage services.
Our globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage specialists, and is backed by a group of prominent investors and highly experienced industry angel investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Eldridge, Positive Sum, Elefund, and Y Combinator.
And, of course, we are very enthusiastic about open source contributions as well as community building.
The Alpaca Team:
We have 150+ globally distributed (remote) team members who love to work from their favorite places in the world. We have team members based in the USA, Canada, Hungary, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Philippines, Nigeria, UK, and more! We love candidates who have a passion for making a global difference in financial services and technology, by impacting local communities and becoming a part of our hyper-growth company.
About the Role
As our Senior Product Designer, you'll join a dynamic and passionate team with a mission to provide financial services to the entire population. As an instrumental part of the product team you will work closely with Product Managers and Engineers to achieve goals for our business and our users. You will work with the Director of Design to design and solve user problems.
You’ll be working remotely with a global team, with preference of working hours to be on the east coast of the US.
Responsibilities
- Lead the UX design of complex products and features across our platforms
- Conduct user research and usability testing
- Analyze user feedback and engagement data, incorporate findings into designs
- Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders
- Able to work with loose processes on ambiguous and complex problems.
- Justify and articulate your design decisions, striving to do so in a clear and simple manner that others can understand.
- Understand and accept that the creative process can be messy and unpredictable, making iteration and experimentation an integral part of your practice.
- Know when to advocate for quality and when to be pragmatic to ensure projects are completed on time and put into the hands of our users.
- You are a self-starter and comfortable working with little more than high-level guidance.
- Define and document current and future state business workflows and communicate them effectively.
- Collaborate and communicate high level design strategy to stakeholders and developers.
- Maintain quality of the design process and ensure that when designs are translated into code they accurately reflect the design specifications.
- Maintain and support the evolution of the Design System.
Skills and Experience
- You should have a minimum of 4 years experience as a designer.
- You have experience working in an agile environment – Think two-week sprints.
- You are familiar with using Figma, Jira and Confluence in your workflow.
- You are an expert practitioner in design craft, bringing relevant experience with web apps, and are capable of delivering thoughtful polished experiences.
- You have the ability to think at a high level about product strategy and articulate design decisions.
- You understand how design, product, and engineering can partner together to quickly ship high-quality experiences at scale.
- A collaborative spirit and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment.
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care. Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs.
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
- Work with awesome hard working people, super smart and cool clients and innovative partners from around the world
Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
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What We Do
Alpaca's mission is to unlock asset management for the people. We are a technology company that modularizes the world’s asset management activities. Alpaca’s products enable anyone to build and connect applications and algorithms to buy and sell stocks with zero commissions. We believe that everyone should have fair access to financial markets, regardless of who we are or where we are from. *Securities are offered through Alpaca Securities LLC (alpaca.markets)*
