Senior Product Designer, Altruist
Design Systems, Contract
All-in-one platform for financial advisors and their clients
Posted today
All-in-one platform for financial advisors and their clients
501-1000 employees
Posted today
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make financial advice better, more affordable, and more accessible.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re passionate about challenging the status quo and making a meaningful impact in the financial advice industry, we’d love to meet you!
- 6+ years of product design experience, including 2+ years focused on design systems in product-led environments
- Expertise in Figma, component architecture, atomic design, and managing large design libraries
- Experience supporting design systems for both desktop and mobile platforms
- Technical fluency—you understand HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern front-end frameworks like React, which we currently use. (Bonus if you can code, but not required)
- Familiarity with component documentation tools like Storybook (which we use) or equivalent platforms to ensure consistency between design and code
- Strong visual design craft, with a deep understanding of layout, hierarchy, and interaction
- Excellent communication skills—you’re a clear, thoughtful collaborator and documentation pro
- Comfort working in fast-paced, iterative environments with high ambiguity
- A proactive, ownership-driven mindset—you bring pride and polish to your work
- Bonus: Experience building or contributing to motion design standards within a design system
- Bonus: Experience working across both consumer and enterprise applications
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Senior Product Designer focused on Design Systems to join our design team in a contract capacity
- You’ll partner closely with a soon-to-be-hired Design Systems Engineer and work cross-functionally to evolve Altruist’s design system
- In this role, you’ll lead the creation and maintenance of scalable, accessible, and elegant UI components—helping teams design and build faster without compromising quality
- You'll also play a key role in defining system processes, documentation, and governance while ensuring alignment between design and engineering
- You will be a key advocate for product quality across the broader product team, ensuring that design systems thinking contributes to cohesive, high-quality user experiences
- This is a contract role with an expected duration of 6 months, with potential to extend
- Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of Altruist’s design system
- Design new components and evolve existing ones within Figma libraries
- Collaborate closely with engineering to ensure design-code alignment across Figma and Storybook
- Define and document reusable components, patterns, and design tokens
- Promote usability, accessibility (WCAG), and scalability across all product surfaces
- Establish lightweight, scalable processes for system contributions and governance
- Conduct audits to identify inconsistencies and opportunities for systematization
- Use research and internal feedback to evolve system guidance and tooling
- Mentor product designers on system best practices and contributions
- Explore how AI tooling can enhance system design workflows and efficiency
Our take
Altruist has created a cloud-based digital investing platform for independent financial advisors (IFAs). In the past, it’s been common for financial advisors selling products on a commission basis to have access to advanced digital systems, but not those working entirely independently.
Altruist brings an all-in-one platform to all IFAs, removing the need to use multiple programs to manage client accounts whilst bringing high quality assets to all investors, regardless of portfolio size.
Advisors can save time, compress costs and ultimately do more for their clients. Altruist operates a pricing model that scales up with the number of required accounts, unlike some competitor products such as Adviser and Intelliflo which charge a flat monthly subscription fee. Off the back of impressive funding, the company is set to expand its service offerings and support a wider range of RIAs as it becomes a truly comprehensive advising solution.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
67% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2025
$152m
SERIES F
May 2024
$169m
SERIES E
Total funding: $601.5m
Company benefits
- Be rewarded for doing great work: competitive compensation and equity for all team members
- Health, dental, and vision coverage, available on your first day
- Set future you up for success with 4% 401(k) matching
- Flexible time off and work hours to meet your needs
- Modern parental paid leave from day one, including 16-week adoptive, birth or foster paid leave, and 4-week child loss or miscarriage paid leave
Company HQ
McManus, Culver City, CA
Leadership
Jason Wenk
(CEO)Started their career as a Morgan Stanley System Analyst before co-founding Retirement Wealth as CEO in 2005. They also founded FormulaFolios in September 2011, before combining this financial and entrepreneurial experience to found Altruist in September 2018.
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