YipitData

Senior Design Lead

YipitData

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California, New York

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • About Us: YipitData is the leading market research and analytics firm for the disruptive economy and most recently raised $475M from The Carlyle Group at a valuation of over $1B. Every day, our proprietary technology analyzes billions of alternative data points to uncover actionable insights across sectors like software, AI, cloud, e-commerce, ridesharing, and payments. Our data and research teams transform raw data into strategic intelligence, delivering accurate, timely, and deeply contextualized analysis that our customers—ranging from the world’s top investment funds to Fortune 500 companies—depend on to drive high-stakes decisions. From sourcing and licensing novel datasets to rigorous analysis and expert narrative framing, our teams ensure clients get not just data, but clarity and confidence. We operate globally with offices in the US (NYC, Austin, Miami, Mountain View), APAC (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Singapore), and India. Our award-winning, people-centric culture—recognized by Inc. as a Best Workplace for three consecutive years—emphasizes transparency, ownership, and continuous mastery. What It’s Like to Work at YipitData: YipitData isn’t a place for coasting—it’s a launchpad for ambitious, impact-driven professionals. From day one, you’ll take the lead on meaningful work, accelerate your growth, and gain exposure that shapes careers. Why Top Talent Chooses YipitData: Ownership That Matters: You’ll lead high-impact projects with real business outcomes Rapid Growth: We compress years of learning into months Merit Over Titles: Trust and responsibility are earned through execution, not tenure Velocity with Purpose: We move fast, support each other, and aim high—always with purpose and intention About The Team: The Investor Applications team is a cross-functional team comprising engineers, Product Managers, and Designers. Our mission is to enable the world’s most sophisticated investors to rapidly take action using proprietary data and insights published by our team of Data and Research Analysts. Our team supports the largest line of business at YipitData, and is the engine powering our company’s overall strategy. About The Role: We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our Investor Applications team. As a Senior Product Designer on our team, you will lead our product through a complex design overhaul and discover how to empower our institutional investor customers to rapidly take action from our data and research insights. You will deeply orient yourself around actual customers, become an expert in their user journeys, and drive our product design strategy based on that expertise. This role combines aspects of research and design. You will own projects from start to finish and be a champion for the value of user research and design in our organization. This is a remote-friendly opportunity that can sit in NYC (where our headquarters is located), one of our office hubs (Austin, Miami, or Mountain View), or anywhere else in the US. However, depending upon where the remote work is performed, income could be subject to New York State tax withholding. We expect East Coast work hours. As Our Senior Product Designer - Public Investor, You Will be Responsible For: Product Design: Own the end-to-end design process from discovery to production, which may include research proposals, information architecture, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity artifacts that engineering can deliver. Design Strategy: Influence the vision and strategy of our product’s experience by analyzing, consolidating, and synthesizing what is known about the needs of our customers. User Research: Conduct research to deepen our understanding of our user personas, discover opportunities to solve problems that matter, and propose solutions that will generate value for our customers. Prototyping and Testing: Plan and conduct tests to validate the usability and value of your solutions as quickly as possible. Iteratively improve the user experience until we’re confident it will help our customers rapidly and confidently take action. Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to refine product strategy and create user-centric solutions to the most important customer problems.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in product design, ideally within the financial services space Understanding of financial markets and the workflows of institutional buy-side participants Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions clearly to a diverse audience Proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Figma Excellent user research skills and the ability to translate research findings into tangible design solutions Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment AI tools usage (Nice to have)