Founding Product Designer, Altruist

• 5+ years of experience in product design, with a focus on complex, multi-step workflows and end-to-end ownership from discovery through launch
• Strong interaction design fundamentals and a track record of shipping real products—not just concepts or prototypes
• A systems-level mindset for how features connect across a broad, complex product surface, and how those pieces should feel cohesive within one agent experience
• High craft bar and strong taste in interaction, UX writing, and visual hierarchy, with the portfolio to back it up
• Comfort designing in ambiguous problem spaces with evolving constraints and rapidly changing AI capabilities
• Product judgment beyond the pixels: ability to reason about scope and impact of design on the business

Desirable

• We're hiring an experienced Founding Product Designer to lead design across Hazel end-to-end: from everyday admin workflows (notes, meetings, inbox, tasks) to Hazel's most complex, specialized AI agents, including financial planning, estate planning, and pairing/planning tools
• This is an individual-contributor role and our first and lead designer for Hazel. You'll have the opportunity to re-imagine wealth management workflows in an AI-native format in close partnership with Product and Engineering, and help shape and maintain our design system. You'll be a strategic partner in product decisions, weighing in on where a feature lives, what discovery should look like, and how to scope and sequence the work
• Own the end-to-end design experience across Hazel, from core admin surfaces like note-taking, inbox, and tasks to specialized, high-complexity AI agents such as financial planning, and investment analysis
• Design how Hazel captures context, summarizes information, follows up, asks clarifying questions, and takes action on a user's behalf, all while staying predictable, transparent, and trustworthy
• Invent new interaction patterns for AI-assisted work where traditional UI doesn't fit, blending automation, suggestions, and human control to reduce cognitive load without hiding important context
• Design patterns for how Hazel signals progress, uncertainty, permissions, and handoffs across multi-step and asynchronous workflows
• Shape how Hazel explains what it's doing, why it's doing it, and what it needs from the user in a way that feels intuitive and trustworthy
• Design, test, and refine experiences in tight feedback loops as Hazel's capabilities expand with model improvements
• Work on critical-path features, adapting designs as the underlying agent becomes more capable and the product surface area grows
• Contribute to and maintain Ethos, our design system, ensuring pixel-perfect implementation and consistent interaction patterns across Hazel and the broader platform
• Obsess over the details that make tools feel calm, fast, and reliable: clear hierarchy, thoughtful defaults, crisp feedback loops, and minimal friction in day-to-day use
• Design for a wide range of advisor tech-savviness, making complex agent workflows approachable without dumbing them down or overwhelming less technical users
• Sit at the table on product strategy: help decide where features live, what to build versus defer, and what discovery is needed before committing to a direction
• Pair with product marketing, brand, and engineers on implementation, and pressure-test ideas directly with users and design partners

• To be considered for this role, you must:
• Provide a portfolio with clear, high-quality examples of shipped product work (not just mockups)
• Include any passwords required to access your portfolio; password-protected portfolios without credentials cannot be reviewed