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Glide

Embedded fintech platform for credit unions

Founding Product Designer

Full-Time
$120k - $180k+ Equity package + $100 monthly wellbeing stipend + $100 weekly lunch/grocery stipend
Mid, Senior
New York, NY, USA+1 moreMore locations: United States
HybridNYC-based team members are ideally expected to work in the office three days a week.
Product & Experience DesignProduct Design

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 4–6 years of experience designing product experiences, ideally in early-stage fintech or complex enterprise environments.
  • Ability to identify patterns and build reusable systems that scale while maintaining craft and polish.
  • Strong interaction and visual design skills, including clarity, typography, and visual hierarchy.
  • Ability to design with customer empathy, interpret feedback, and determine when to adapt or challenge constraints.
  • Comfort working in ambiguity, moving quickly, taking ownership, and shipping evolving first versions.
Responsibilities
  • Own design for Glide’s core products across account opening, lending, and member servicing.
  • Translate complex financial workflows into clear, intuitive experiences.
  • Build and maintain Glide’s design system and visual language across product and marketing.
  • Partner with product, engineering, and go-to-market teams to ship fast, high-quality features.
  • Contribute to brand and visual design needs across web, campaigns, and presentations.
  • Bring clarity to ambiguity through prototypes, storytelling, and thoughtful craft.
  • Champion design excellence and help define Glide’s design culture as the company scales.

About the company

Glide provides an embedded fintech platform that helps community banks and credit unions modernize their digital services. It offers a unified, AI-powered digital experience layer on top of existing core systems, enabling seamless member onboarding and omni-channel interactions across online, branch, and in-person channels. The platform differentiates itself by consolidating 30+ legacy tools into a single intelligent layer, improving security with fraud detection and KYC tools, and speeding up account opening to boost deposits and lending. Glide’s goal is to reduce operational overhead for financial institutions while helping them compete in a digital-first market, supported by multi-year contracts and a $15 million Series A funding round in 2025 to expand its product roadmap and AI capabilities.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$15M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2021

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What believers are saying

  • May 2025 Series A from Acrew Capital funded product expansion and AI engineering.
  • Customer stories in 2026 include Gulf Coast Educators FCU, Island FCU, and Pacific Service CU.
  • June 2026 fraud-defense messaging proves measurable security value for onboarding-heavy institutions.

What critics are saying

  • June 2026 attackers triggered 282,000 fake applications, exposing costly fraud pressure.
  • Glide depends on slow bank sales cycles; one stalled renewal can freeze growth.
  • A bigger core-banking vendor can bundle Glide's features, compressing margins and winning contracts.

What makes Glide unique

  • Glide unified deposit origination, lending, and back-office workflows into one platform.
  • Its platform cut account-opening from 20 minutes to under 3, tripling conversions.
  • It sells multi-year contracts to credit unions and community banks, reducing vendor sprawl.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Wellness Program
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Hybrid Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

35%

1 year growth

39%

2 year growth

39%
IT桔子
May 9th, 2025
With Glide Secures $15M Series A Funding

With Glide, an embedded fintech platform provider, has secured $15 million in Series A funding. The investment round was led by Acrew Capital, with participation from Pear Ventures, NOMO Ventures, 186 Ventures, and Pathlight Ventures.

FinSMEs
May 8th, 2025
Glide Raises $15M in Series A Funding

Glide, a NYC-based provider of an embedded fintech platform, raised $15M in Series A funding

The Charlotte Observer
May 8th, 2025
Glide Raises $15M Series A to Power the Digital Transformation of Traditional Financial Institutions

Glide raises $15M Series A to power the digital transformation of traditional financial institutions.