Head of Design

What you’ll do

• Personally lead design on our most critical product surfaces, setting the standard for quality and usability.
• Bring a clear point of view on designing AI-native products, including how to build trust, transparency, and effective human-AI interaction.
• Define how product experiences are built at Opto, from onboarding through core workflows, establishing principles for simplicity, clarity, and trust.
• Work alongside product and engineering to define direction, challenge decisions, and ensure we build coherent, end-to-end experiences.
• Push teams to simplify, cut scope, and focus on what actually drives user value.
• Bring design into strategic decisions early, shaping roadmap, prioritization, and how we approach problems.
• Establish design systems, patterns, and practices that scale across the product and compound over time.
• Lead and grow the design team, setting a high bar for craft, thinking, and execution.

What success looks like

• Design consistently shapes product decisions, not just execution.
• Core workflows feel coherent, intuitive, and built for how our users actually work.
• The product has a clear, unified interaction model across surfaces.
• Teams ship high-quality experiences with a strong focus on outcomes.

Required Skills

• Strong product sense and high quality bar. You know what good looks like and push teams to reach it.
• Comfort with ambiguity. You create clarity in evolving environments and help teams move forward.
• AI-native mindset. You've incorporated AI deeply into your workflow and have a point of view on how design's role is evolving.

Background

• 10+ Years of product design experience.
• Zero to one product design experience. You've built products or major features from scratch and can articulate what you shipped, what you cut, and why.
• Experience contributing to or reaching product-market fit. You understand how design drives learning, iteration, and adoption.
• B2B product experience, ideally in fintech or data-heavy environments with complex workflows.
• Experience leading designers, or a strong senior IC who has operated at a leadership level and is ready to own a function.

Bonus

• Fintech or private markets experience.
• Founder or early-stage experience.
• Experience building or shaping discovery and research practices.

Compensation and Benefits

• Cash salary range: $250,000-$290,000 dependent on skills, experience and expected contribution.
• Significant equity
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Retirement savings plan (401k)
• Learning, Fitness and Commuter stipends
• Paid Holidays