Product Designer

About Altius

Altius is an AI-powered portfolio automation and intelligence platform for family offices and institutional investors.

We turn complex, document-heavy investment workflows into structured, decision-ready intelligence.

Our challenge is simple: take very complex financial workflows and make them feel intuitive.

What you'll do

This role combines

• Customer discovery
• Product and UX thinking
• 0-to-1 system design
• High-quality UI
• AI prototyping
• Execution through production

What's expected from you

• Lead customer interviews and discovery sessions with US-based customers to understand their workflows, needs, and challenges.
• Analyze the existing product and identify friction, complexity and opportunities for improvement
• Separate feature requests from underlying product problems
• Simplify complex financial and operational workflows
• Design new products and systems from scratch
• Own user journeys, information architecture, interaction design and high-fidelity UI
• Build realistic prototypes quickly using AI tools
• Test ideas with customers and iterate fast
• Work closely with engineering through implementation and release
• Stay involved after launch and improve based on feedback and usage

What success looks like

• Customers find Altius easier and more intuitive to use
• Major friction points in the existing product are identified and improved
• New ideas move quickly from problem to tested prototype
• New products and workflows are successfully designed and shipped from scratch
• Customer discovery becomes a regular part of how we build
• The product becomes more consistent, polished and simple

What we're looking for

• Native-level English fluency (spoken and written) is a must, as the role involves daily communication with US-based customers
• Strong product design experience in complex products, preferably B2B SaaS or enterprise software
• Proven experience designing and launching products or complex systems from 0 to 1
• Proven experience in startups, small teams or high-paced environments with rapid iteration
• Strong customer research, discovery and usability-testing experience
• Excellent UX, interaction and visual design skills
• Strong systems thinking and information architecture
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Ability to simplify complex business problems
• Strong Figma skills
• High ownership and ability to work independently from ambiguity to execution

Nice to have

• Fintech
• Investment platforms
• AI-native products
• Data-heavy systems
• Design systems
• AI coding/prototyping tools

What this role offers

• Build products from 0 to 1
• Work directly with the founder, customers and engineering
• Solve genuinely complex product problems

How we use AI

AI is central to how this role works, not a side tool. In design, we expect you to use AI prototyping and coding tools to turn ideas into realistic, working prototypes quickly, put them in front of customers, and iterate before anything reaches engineering. Beyond design, we expect you to use models like Claude and ChatGPT across your day-to-day work, from preparing for and making sense of customer interviews to exploring more options in less time. We want someone who follows where these tools are heading and how they change the way products are designed and built, not someone who has simply used a chatbot.

Why Altius

• You own things end-to-end and see clients use them. No layers of management, no backlog nobody reads.
• You move fast. POC to production in days, sometimes hours. We judge results, not hours, and work hybrid with flexible schedules.
• You grow fast. Roles are broad and expand quickly. People who perform lead areas within a year or two.
• AI is how we work. It is in the product and in how we build it.
• The people. Everyone helps each other grow, and new joiners get a smooth landing.