Product Designer, 8am

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. You have 2 to 5 years of product or UX design experience and a strong portfolio showcasing your craft, process, and impact across product flows
• Experience designing for complex or data-heavy workflows; experience in fintech, SaaS, or operational tools strongly preferred
• Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system
• Comfort working within multi-product platforms or ecosystems where ownership boundaries are collaborative rather than isolated
• High proficiency in Figma and familiarity with common research and testing methods, including supporting or running usability tests, participating in interviews, synthesizing insights, and using customer feedback or analytics to inform design decisions
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation

Desirable

• As a Product Designer at 8am, you will play a central role in shaping how professionals manage and grow their businesses, with an initial focus on experiences supporting accounting and advisory workflows.
• You will take ownership of meaningful product areas, designing intuitive, trustworthy, and efficient workflows that sit at the core of our fintech and practice management platform
• While this role will primarily support product initiatives within the Accountant Vertical, your work will span a broader ecosystem that includes payments, financial operations, and end-to-end business management
• You will collaborate closely with designers and partners across adjacent product pillars—such as onboarding, AI-enabled capabilities, and embedded financial services—to ensure cohesive, scalable experiences across the platform
• You will work daily with Product Managers, Engineers, User Researchers, Content Designers, and key business stakeholders to uncover problems, define solutions, and deliver user-centered experiences that support complex, real-world workflows
• Your design decisions will directly influence product-led growth by improving how users activate, adopt, and succeed within our tools
• This role is a strong fit for a curious, proactive designer who enjoys solving complex problems, partnering deeply with cross-functional teammates, and evolving their impact across different product domains over time
• Translate business and product objectives into user-centered solutions that influence key growth metrics such as activation, conversion, retention, and self-serve adoption
• Design and iterate on features that support financial operations and business management, including experiences powered by AI or automation
• Optimize user journeys to help customers discover, adopt, and realize value from core platform capabilities
• Work closely with other designers to align on direction, patterns, and opportunities to elevate experience quality across the platform
• Partner with Product Managers, Engineers, User Researchers, Content Designers, and key stakeholders throughout discovery, design, and delivery
• Collaborate closely with Engineers by providing clear design intent, prototypes, flows, and specifications to support high-quality implementation
• Develop a strong understanding of professional user goals, workflows, and pain points through research, customer feedback, and product data
• Advocate for accessible, intuitive, and consistent experiences that build trust in financial and operational tools
• Ensure user needs are addressed through cohesive end-to-end journeys, even when experiences span multiple product areas or teams
• Create thoughtful design deliverables across the product lifecycle, including concepts, flows, wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready UI
• Contribute to the evolution of our design system, ensuring patterns scale across multiple products and use cases
• Maintain a high bar for usability, interaction clarity, visual polish, and overall craft
• Take ownership of problem spaces while remaining adaptable to shifting priorities or product focus areas
• Communicate design decisions and tradeoffs clearly, balancing user needs with business goals and technical constraints
• Contribute ideas and approaches that elevate design quality, product outcomes, and team effectiveness across the organization