Senior Product Designer, Portfolio Accounting

As a Product Designer at Ridgeline, you’ll help breathe new life into an industry marked by complex and aging software. We’re looking for passion and a broad skill set: our ideal candidate will feel comfortable working on interaction design, visual design, prototyping and user research. This is an opportunity to help shape our company’s vision, the way we approach problem solving, and to ensure our product fulfills the ambitious promises we make to our customers. Our designers are not pixel pushers; they are business savvy creatives, the heartbeat of our product development process.

You are an influential designer and are known for contributing to the most complex projects. You have a strong knowledge of your craft. You have a strong desire to execute and mentor, which will be crucial to Ridgeline’s success.

We are looking for forward-thinking designers who are passionate about creating meaningful change in the investment management space. If you have a background in financial services and a knack for tackling complex design problems, we would love to hear from you.

Join Our Portfolio Accounting Team

As a key member of the Portfolio Accounting team at Ridgeline, you will have the unique opportunity to shape the future of investment management software. Our team is at the forefront of simplifying and streamlining the complex workflows of accounting, helping our users gain access to accurate and consistent data across the application. 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. Your work will directly impact the efficiency and effectiveness of our accounting system, reconciliation processes, transaction details, and general bookkeeping workflows.
• Impact the Investment Ecosystem: Your designs will play a significant role in how investment management firms operate, offering them a competitive edge through accounting and reconciliation processes. 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 accounting 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, particularly in areas related to accounting and/or reconciliation. 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.

What will you do?

• Use your UX and visual design skills to wireframe, prototype, and test new product ideas
• Define the visual language and overall design system of our applications
• Engage in a user-centered design process that works closely with our strategy, product,  and engineering teams
• Conduct user research and design thinking sessions with customers and subject matter experts
• Work alongside our engineers to build your designs using modern front-end frameworks and AWS back-end services
• Think creatively, own problems, seek solutions, and communicate clearly along the way
• Contribute to a collaborative environment deeply rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency

The Ridgeline design team has a set of design skills we hire against and use to measure ourselves internally. It helps us with the quality of our team, and it drives and measures individual career growth.

Our designers can:

• Address and focus on business needs
• Deal with and understand complexity
• Communicate & present their work
• Define the information architecture of the products they work on
• Build experiences that have solid interaction design
• Manage their projects & resources
• Use research to inform their designs
• Think about the system in which their work sits
• Create pleasing visual designs
• Manage their workflow efficiently

Desired Skills and Experience

• 3+ years of experience in digital product design
• Proficient in product design with a solid understanding of how it fits into the product & company process
• Strong interaction design, visual design, and prototyping skills
• Experience using