Full-Time

Senior Product Designer

Trading

Posted on 10/21/2024

Altruist

Altruist

501-1,000 employees

Platform for Registered Investment Advisors' operations

Compensation Overview

$136k - $181k/yr

Senior

Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Hybrid work schedule requiring in-office collaboration.

Category
Product & UX/UI Design
Quantitative Finance
UI/UX & Design
Required Skills
UI/UX Design
Figma
Product Design
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • 5+ years of experience working as a Product Designer; at a B2B financial services, fintech, or SaaS organization
  • Strong UX, visual design, and product thinking skills
  • Comfort with an iterative design process using quantitative and qualitative data to inform design and product improvements
  • A love for testing prototypes to create seamless, intuitive user experiences
  • Technologically savvy and can easily get up to speed on modern tech stacks and prototyping tools (i.e., Figma, Google Suite, Slack, etc.)
  • Superb communication skills
  • Resilience and unwavering determination to achieve success
  • Creative problem-solving skills
Responsibilities
  • Work closely with Product and Engineering to visualize a revolutionary new platform for financial advisors and their clients
  • Work closely with the Trading team to build an industry-leading trading experience for RIAs
  • Build detailed product flows, including error states and edge cases
  • Design for both desktop and mobile
  • Apply data, research, and customer insights to design decisions
  • Align with product and engineering to determine what success means for a given initiative
  • Own the end-to-end design from ideation and research to execution
  • Iterate quickly through mockups and clickable prototypes that may range in fidelity and functionality
  • Work within defined timelines to prioritize your work for maximum impact
  • Work within our existing styles and design system to create a cohesive experience
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience designing for trading platforms
  • Experience working with complex data and creating data visualizations

Altruist provides a platform designed for Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) to improve their operations and client interactions. The platform includes a range of tools such as live chat support, commission-free fractional share trading, a model marketplace, and an automated rebalancer, all aimed at helping RIAs manage their businesses more effectively. This allows them to serve more clients while lowering costs, which can enhance their profit margins. Altruist also features a quick onboarding process and offers valuable investment management information along with original content tailored for independent financial advisors. Unlike many competitors, Altruist offers its services for free, aiming to build a large user base, and generates revenue through a vertically-integrated custodian service that helps RIAs reduce operational costs. The goal of Altruist is to empower RIAs to grow their businesses and enhance the experience they provide to their clients.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Series E

Total Funding

$449.5M

Headquarters

Culver City, California

Founded

2018

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Altruist raised $169M in Series E funding, boosting growth potential.
  • Partnerships with Orion and Kwanti enhance Altruist's platform capabilities.
  • Demand for digital transformation in financial services aligns with Altruist's offerings.

What critics are saying

  • Competition from firms like Betterment and Wealthfront threatens Altruist's market share.
  • Regulatory changes could impact Altruist's commission-free trading model.
  • Expansion into digital fixed-income trading introduces new market risks.

What makes Altruist unique

  • Altruist offers a simplified tech stack for efficient RIA management.
  • The platform includes commission-free fractional share trading and automated rebalancing.
  • Altruist provides original content and fast onboarding for financial advisors.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Company Match

Hybrid Work Options

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Stock Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

9%

1 year growth

5%

2 year growth

3%
Wealth Management
Mar 14th, 2025
WealthStack Roundup: Altruist Fills CTO Vacancy

RIA custodian upstart Altruist this week announced the hiring of Silicon Valley insider Sumanth Sukumar as its chief technology officer.

Business Wire
Mar 12th, 2025
Former Coinbase and Uber Executive Joins Altruist as CTO to Cement Tech Advantage

To establish a hub for engineering innovation and strengthen its technology leadership, Altruist is expanding its presence with an office in San Francisco.

Business Wire
Oct 2nd, 2024
LaSalle Vaughn Joins Altruist as Chief Compliance, Ethics, & Risk Officer

Vaughn joins Altruist from Bestow, where he served as Chief Compliance, Ethics, and Risk Officer, leading teams that mitigated regulatory risk for online insurance products.

Wealth Management
Sep 24th, 2024
Altruist Adds Digital Fixed Income Trading to Platform

RIA custodian Altruist has launched fully digital fixed-income trading for advisors.

Arena Investor
Aug 29th, 2024
Announcement: Arena Investor Partners with Altruist

Announcement: Arena Investor partners with Altruist.

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