Mid–senior Product Designer

Overview

Bead is hiring a mid–senior Product Designer to help shape and scale a live fintech platform used by partners, merchants, and internal teams.

We are building a production system with meaningful operational and workflow complexity, and we’re looking for a designer who thrives in structured environments and brings clarity to sophisticated products. This role combines systems thinking, strong execution discipline, and thoughtful product reasoning.

You will work closely with the Co-Founder / CPO, who defines product direction and strategy. From there, you’ll operate with autonomy between check-ins, develop well-reasoned solution paths, and translate complex concepts into clear, scalable design artifacts.

As a startup, we value flexibility and initiative. While your primary focus will be product design and system integrity, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute across adjacent areas as the platform evolves.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Bead’s Figma design system (components, variants, variables, scalable structure)
• Maintain large, multi-page Figma files with strong naming and reuse discipline
• Design complex B2B workflows across Partner, Merchant, and operational surfaces
• Present multiple solution options with rationale and tradeoffs
• Translate product conversations into clear implementation-ready artifacts
• Write or co-write structured Jira stories and epics
• Design for hierarchical account models and role-based permissions
• Bring clarity to data-heavy interfaces (transactions, settlements, account states)
• Maintain UX integrity in compliance-sensitive flows
• **Must be able to work Pacific Time hours

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years designing and shipping production SaaS products
• Advanced Figma proficiency (components, variants, auto layout, libraries; variables strongly preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to work within large, complex files and maintain and evolve a live design system
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to design for complex workflows, edge cases, and state logic
• Proven ability to write structured product documentation (user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows)
• Ability to translate product decisions into artifacts usable by Engineering, Operations, and Sales
• Strong written communication and organizational discipline
• Comfortable operating autonomously in a startup environment

Portfolio Requirements (Mandatory)

Applications must include a portfolio demonstrating:

• A complex system or workflow you designed
• Evidence of structured thinking, not just polished UI
• Examples of edge cases, states, or role-based logic
• Artifacts showing how design translated into shipped product

Applications without a portfolio or system-level examples will not be considered.

Preferred Qualifications

• Fintech or regulated product experience
• Experience designing hierarchical or multi-tenant platforms
• Experience collaborating closely with backend-heavy engineering teams
• Familiarity with frontend implementation constraints (React or similar)
• Experience contributing to or stewarding documentation systems (Confluence or similar)

What Success Looks Like

• A clean, scalable Figma system that reduces design entropy
• Clear, production-ready artifacts requiring minimal reinterpretation
• Thoughtful UX decisions backed by rationale
• Improved coherence across complex partner and merchant workflows
• Reduced executive dependency for interface-level decisions