Staff Product Designer, Core Platform

Are you a systems thinker who thrives on designing foundational experiences that power complex, enterprise-scale products? Do you enjoy solving intricate platform-wide challenges that enable scalability, consistency, and long-term design integrity? Are you excited to contribute to a high-leverage team shaping the core of a transformative industry platform? If so, we invite you to be a part of our innovative team.

We are looking for an experienced Product Designer to join Ridgeline’s Core Platform team—an essential part of our mission to build a unified cloud-native enterprise platform for investment management. As a member of this team, you’ll be responsible for architecting flexible, reusable design solutions that support critical platform capabilities across our suite of applications. You will collaborate with design, product, and engineering leaders to craft experiences that drive performance, consistency, and usability for our internal and external users. This role offers the opportunity to make outsized impact through thoughtful systems design, powered by cutting-edge technologies—including AI tools like Figma AI, ChatGPT, and GitHub Copilot.

What will you do?

• Define and design cohesive patterns, interaction models, and frameworks that enable consistency across Ridgeline’s platform
• Contribute to and evolve our design system to scale with platform growth
• Partner with engineers and product managers to architect solutions that are elegant, scalable, and technically feasible
• Lead discovery efforts to understand the needs of diverse user types interacting with foundational platform features
• Create prototypes and conduct user testing to validate design hypotheses and ensure usability
• Collaborate with fellow designers to drive adoption of platform conventions and unify user experiences across products
• Communicate design intent, rationale, and tradeoffs clearly to diverse stakeholders
• Champion best practices in UX and advocate for a human-centered, system-aware design approach
• Mentor less experienced designers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning and craft excellence

Desired Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of experience in digital product design, preferably in B2B or platform environments
• Proven ability to tackle complex information architecture and system-level design problems
• Deep experience in interaction design, visual design, and prototyping
• Strong strategic thinking and product judgment
• Experience working in cross-functional teams with a track record of shipping high-quality features
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and driving clarity through iteration and collaboration
• Experience working with and evolving design systems
• Strong systems thinking, prioritization, and stakeholder management to navigate competing priorities to maximize platform tooling leverage

Bonus:

• Background in enterprise SaaS or financial technology
• Experience with Figma tokens, design ops, or front-end frameworks
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and inclusive design practices
• Prior work on internal tools, developer platforms, or cross-product services

Join Our Core Platform Team:

As a key member of the Core Platform team at Ridgeline, you will have the unique opportunity to shape the federated building blocks of the Ridgeline system. The Core Platform team is at the forefront of simplifying and streamlining complex workflow automations for external and internal operational users, and the growth of our global product tools such as search and our notifications platform.

By joining us, you will:

• Drive Innovation in Investment Management: Contribute to the design and development of a unified platform that enables firms to conduct all their operations seamlessly.
• Impact the Investment Ecosystem: Your designs will play a significant role in how investment management firms operate, offering them a competitive edge. This is a chance to leave a lasting impact on the investment industry, making it more efficient, compliant, and data-driven.
• Solve Complex Design Challenges: Tackle the intricate challenges of displaying and managing vast amounts of financial data in ways that are intuitive, accessible, and actionable for our users.
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with product, engineering, and strategy teams to ensure our system not only meets but exceeds the evolving needs of our customers.

Leverage Your Financial Services Experience: Ideal candidates will bring a deep understanding of the financial services industry. Your prior experience and insights will be invaluable as we strive to meet the specific needs of our users, ensuring our platform remains at the cutting edge of investment management technology.

About Ridgeline

Ridgeline is the industry cloud platform for investment management. It was founded by visionary tech entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of both PeopleSoft and Workday) to apply his successful formula of solving operational business challenges with bold innovation and human connectivity to the unique needs of the investment management industry. 

Ridgeline started with a clean sheet of paper and a deep bench of experts bound by a set of core values and motivated to revolutionize an industry underserved by its current tech offerings. We are building a new, modern platform in the public cloud, purpose-built for the investment management industry and we are prioritizing security, agility, and usability to empower business like never before.

With a growing campus in Reno and offices in New York, Lake Tahoe, and the Bay Area, Ridgeline is proud to have built a fast-growing, people-first company that has been recognized by Fast Company as a “Best Workplace for Innovators,” by The Software Report as a “Top 100 Software Company,” and by Forbes as one of “America’s Best Startup Employers.”

Ridgeline is proud to be a community-minded, discrimination-free equal opportunity workplace.

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Compensation and Benefits 

The cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $155,000-$182,500. Final compensation amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amount listed above. 

As an employee at Ridgeline, you’ll have many opportunities for advancement in your career and can make a true impact on the product. 

In addition to the base salary, 100% of Ridgeline employees can participate in our Company Stock Plan subject to the applicable Stock Option Agreement. We also offer rich benefits that reflect the kind of organization we want to be: one in which our employees feel valued and are inspired to bring their best selves to work. These include unlimited vacation, educational and wellness reimbursements, and $0 cost employee insurance plans. Please check out our Careers page for a more comprehensive overview of our perks and benefits.

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