endex

New York

Founding Designer

ON-SITE MID
Posted 8 months ago

Quick Summary

Role Overview

As Founding Designer at Endex, you will define how financial professionals interact with AI in their critical workflows. This role involves designing intuitive interfaces for agentic AI, building a scalable design system, and establishing the visual identity of a category-defining product. You will have the opportunity to shape how Wall Street works with AI.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design the end-to-end user journey for interacting with AI agents in Excel.
  • Create intuitive interfaces for complex AI workflows, including prompting and reviewing outputs.
  • Craft the first-time user experience for user onboarding and activation.
  • Build and maintain the company's design system from scratch.
  • Shape Endex's brand through product, marketing site, and collateral.
  • Collaborate closely with Engineering and Product to ship designs and balance technical constraints.

Requirements Snapshot

  • Possess 3+ years of product design experience at technology companies.
  • Demonstrate a strong portfolio showcasing end-to-end product design with measurable impact.
  • Be proficient in modern design tools, with Figma proficiency required.
  • Have experience designing complex workflows or enterprise software.
  • Deeply understand user workflows and pain points, driving design decisions with insights.

Expected Impact

As Founding Designer, you will play a pivotal role in defining the future of AI interaction within financial workflows. Your designs will establish the visual identity and user experience for a category-defining product, directly influencing how financial professionals leverage agentic AI. You will contribute significantly to bridging the gap between current practices and the inevitable integration of AI analysts in finance.

This summary was generated from the original job posting (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Job Description

Who We Are

Over the next few years, every financial institution will have teams of AI analysts working alongside their sharpest minds. At Endex, we're on a mission to bridge the present to the inevitable by building the most sophisticated digital coworker native in Excel. We're a team working on the frontier of agentic development and applied finance, in close collaboration with leading research labs and backed by OpenAI ($14M Raise in Aug. 2025).

With significant demand after our launch, financial firms across the country recognize agentic AI in financial modeling is the future.

About the Role

Location: New York City
Commitment: 5-6 days in-person

As Founding Designer at Endex, you'll define how financial professionals interact with AI in their most critical workflows. You'll design intuitive interfaces for agentic AI, building a design system that scales, and establishing the visual identity of a category-defining product. If you want to shape how Wall Street works with AI, this is your opportunity.

What You'll Own

  • Core Product Experience: Design the end-to-end user journey for interacting with AI agents in Excel. Create intuitive interfaces for complex workflows (prompting, iterating, reviewing AI outputs)

  • Onboarding & Activation: Craft the first-time user experience that takes someone from "what is this?" to "I can't work without this."

  • Design System: Build and maintain our design system from scratch.

  • Visual Identity: Shape Endex's brand through our product, marketing site, and collateral. Create a visual language that feels sophisticated, trustworthy, and cutting-edge

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Engineering and Product to ship designs. Balance user needs with technical constraints, especially within Excel's add-in environment

  • Growth & Conversion: Design signup flows, pricing pages, and upgrade prompts that drive conversion

Who You Are

  • Product Designer: You have a strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design, from research and wireframes to high-fidelity mockups and shipped features

  • User-Obsessed: You deeply understand user workflows and pain points. You conduct research proactively and let insights drive your design decisions

  • Technically Fluent: You understand technical constraints and can work effectively with engineers. You know what's possible in web technologies and can design within platform limitations

  • Detail-Oriented: Your designs are polished and production-ready

  • Fast Executor: You ship quickly, and iterate based on feedback

  • Strong Communicator: You articulate design decisions clearly and can advocate for user needs across the organization

Requirements

  • 3+ years of product design experience at technology companies, ideally B2B SaaS or technical tools

  • Strong portfolio showcasing end-to-end product design work with measurable impact

  • Proficiency in modern design tools (Figma required)

  • Experience designing complex workflows or enterprise software

Bonus Points

  • Background in finance or financial services—you understand Excel power users and financial modeling workflows

  • Experience designing AI/ML products or agentic interfaces

  • Experience with design systems or component libraries

  • Front-end development skills (HTML/CSS/JavaScript)

  • Experience at early-stage startups (seed to Series A)

Benefits

  • Competitive salary + meaningful equity

  • Health & dental insurance

  • Monthly wellness stipend

  • 401(k) matching

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