Product Designer, Experience

WHY NUMERIC? Every business relies on accounting. Yet most software in the space was built in the early 2000s: clunky, slow, and poorly suited to the complexity finance teams deal with today. Accountants are facing a growing data problem https://numeric.substack.com/p/accountings-data-problem caused by more systems, more transactions, more reporting requirements, and more fragmented workflows. The problems are real, hard, and increasingly urgent. They are also solvable. Numeric is building the modern platform for accounting and finance. We’re building toward live, rich, trustworthy financial data that companies can use to make decisions and move faster. We tackle foundational challenges across data ingest, transformation, matching, projection, reporting, and workflow. By combining data infrastructure, automation, and careful product design, we help accounting teams move away from manual work and toward a continuous view of a company’s financial activity. We have strong product-market fit and a growing base of customers who love our product, including Anthropic, Brex, OpenAI, Plaid, Wealthfront, and hundreds more. We’re a Series B company backed by top-tier investors including IVP, Menlo Ventures, Founders Fund, and 8VC, along with founders and executives from Ramp, Segment, and other category-defining companies. ABOUT THE ROLE We’re hiring a Product Designer to join our Experience Team. The Experience team currently includes three product designers and one front-end engineer. The team owns the quality, coherence, and UI/UX differentiation of Numeric’s product surface area. We work across product design, design systems, code-based prototyping, and front-end implementation to make sure the product feels clear, dense, elegant, and trustworthy. We are building complex, data-heavy, highly technical product surfaces. The work often starts before every requirement is clear and continues through implementation. You’ll partner closely with engineers and PMs, prototype quickly, use the product directly, reason through edge cases, and help turn ambiguous workflows into shippable product (including shipping some yourself!). The best fit is someone who can work independently, seek feedback proactively, and move between rough prototypes, product reasoning, polished interaction design, and implementation details without needing a lot of ceremony. You should be someone who runs toward hard problems. HOW WE WORK We work in a way that is fast, direct, and unusually close to engineering. - We prototype early and often. - We use code, Claude Code, Linear, Figma, and the product itself as design artifacts. - We care about reusable patterns and design-system leverage, but we do not let process slow down product learning. - Designers are expected to be close to implementation and comfortable working with engineers in the details. - We do not have many formal design ceremonies. Designers need to be proactive about getting feedback and creating alignment. - We value sharp product judgment, low ego, high agency, and strong craft. - We care about speed and quality at the same time. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Own product design for complex workflows in our financial operating system, from early exploration through implementation. - Work closely with engineers and PMs to clarify ambiguous product problems and turn them into buildable interaction models. - Create prototypes, reference screens, interaction specs, and implementation notes as needed — using whatever artifact best moves the work forward. - Build or direct code-based prototypes where useful, including with tools like Claude Code. - Partner with engineers during build to refine behavior, states, edge cases, density, polish, and product quality. - Help identify and resolve rough edges across the product before they harden into product debt. - Contribute to user story-led work, higher-fidelity refinements, and the reconciliation between prototype, production, and final product quality. - Help define reusabl