Lead Product Designer

Allocate

Lead Product Designer at Allocate focusing on improving private market investing experiences. Collaborate with PMs and engineers while mentoring junior designers in a complex financial landscape.

Posted 7/27/2026full-timeRemote • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $175,000 - $215,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading end-to-end product design initiatives, including research, UX, UI, and prototyping, while effectively collaborating with cross-functional teams. Possesses strong systems thinking and a deep understanding of private markets to inform design decisions and improve usability.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Product Design LeadershipInteractive Prototyping in FigmaDesign Systems and Component LibrariesMentoring Junior DesignersCollaboration with PMs and Engineers

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Hard Skills

UX DesignUI DesignPrototypingSystems ThinkingDesign ResearchUser ExperienceUsability ImprovementEvidence-Led DesignComponent LibrariesFinancial Knowledge

Soft Skills

Strong CommunicationCollaborationCuriosityFlexibilityMentoring

Tools & Technologies

FigmaMagic PatternsClaudeCursorAI-Assisted Tools

Industry Keywords

FintechPrivate MarketsPortfolio ReportingDeal FlowFund Structures

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead design for initiatives end to end — research, UX, UI, prototyping, and handoff.
Build interactive prototypes in Figma, Magic Patterns, or with Claude/Cursor when code is the fastest path — validating ideas, aligning stakeholders, and pressure-testing flows before engineering invests heavily.
Coordinate design across squads: run design syncs, manage dependencies, keep projects moving.
Collaborate closely with PMs, engineers, and stakeholders to define problems, shape solutions, and deliver high-quality work.
Develop real working knowledge of private markets and client workflows so decisions are grounded in understanding, not assumptions.
Use AI-assisted tools thoughtfully for research synthesis, exploration, and prototyping — so you spend more time on the parts that require judgment, taste, and craft.
Identify user- and system-level opportunities to improve usability, performance, and consistency.
Improve how the team works: design systems, tooling, and process.
Mentor designers (IC2 and below) through feedback, reviews, and 1:1 coaching.
Support recruiting and begin operating as a hiring manager for junior design roles.
Communicate design decisions clearly, framing the work in terms of user value and business outcomes.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years in product design with increasing responsibility over time.
You've led projects and/or squads through full design cycles, discovery to delivery.
Genuinely curious about complex financial topics — excited to learn fund structures, deal flow, portfolio reporting, and how money actually moves, even if you're not an expert yet.
Comfortable building interactive prototypes (ideally Figma and Magic Patterns) and willing to use Claude and Cursor for code-backed prototypes when that's fastest. Not an engineer, but you stay unblocked by code more often than not.
Pragmatic and experiment-friendly: multiple options, early validation, evidence-led.
Strong systems thinking and a track record of scalable, maintainable interfaces.
Strong collaboration with engineers, PMs, and stakeholders — clarity and flexibility both.
Experience with design systems and component libraries.
Strong communication and storytelling, 1:1 and in front of larger groups.
Experience mentoring or managing junior designers, even informally.
Familiarity with fintech or private markets is a strong plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical
Dental
Vision
Responsible time off (RTO)
401(k)