Hadrius automates and consolidates securities compliance for investment firms. To do this, we’re building the automated back office for financial firms, using AI to analyze millions of data points from emails to text messages, marketing copy, investment accounts, filings, and more to identify regulatory violations.

Today, over 300+ financial institutions managing $4T+ AUM rely on Hadrius to automate their regulatory compliance. We’re the fastest growing company in the space and the emerging category leader, going from our launch out of the YC W23 batch to $XMs+ ARR in under 24 months and haven’t slowed down since. We have a world-class team and product competing against legacy software that hasn't innovated in decades, and are looking for exceptional people dedicated to our shared mission to join.

About the Role

This is a foundational leadership role for an experienced designer ready to define the user experience for an entire industry.

As a foundational design leader at Hadrius, you will own the entire product experience, design strategy, and user-centric vision that is revolutionizing financial compliance. You will operate as a strategic partner to the founders, shaping not just the product but the company itself from the ground floor of a hyper-growth startup.

This is a role for a builder who wants to create a world-class design function from scratch. We have a culture of deep trust and high autonomy; we replace meetings with execution and give our leaders the ownership to make an outsized impact. You will partner with an elite team of engineers from companies like Google, Chime, and Microsoft, and founders with previous successful exits. We work with an intensity that matches the scale of our opportunity—we are looking for an exceptional leader who is excited to do the same.

What You'll Do & Your Impact Timeline

Within your first week (Deliver a strategic vision for the Hadrius product experience):

• Conduct a full audit of our product, brand, and user experience to identify key strategic opportunities.
• Embed with our sales and customer success teams to deeply understand our buyers, users, and the competitive landscape.
• Present a high-level vision to the founding team for what a world-class user experience looks like for Hadrius.

Within your first month (Establish the foundations of our design function):

• Ship your first major design project, setting a new bar for quality and user-centricity.
• Create, document, and begin implementing the Hadrius Design System to accelerate our product development velocity.
• Establish the core design rituals and processes (critiques, user research cadence, etc.) that will allow us to scale.
• Become the go-to partner for the CTO on product strategy, roadmap planning, and defining what we build next.

Within your first 3 months and beyond (Become the design leader of Hadrius):

• Own the end-to-end design of complex, ambiguous, 0-to-1 product initiatives.
• Act as the primary voice of the customer in strategic conversations, ensuring user needs drive company priorities.
• Scale the design function by mentoring our current designer and playing a key role in hiring future members of the team.
• Visibly raise the bar for product quality across the entire company, holding engineering and product accountable for delivering exceptional user experiences.

About You

• A Master of Your Craft: You are a highly competent and seasoned designer. Your portfolio demonstrates strategic, systems-level thinking and exceptional visual and interaction design skills.
• Strategic Partner & Mentor: You don't just execute on a vision; you help create it. You are a player-coach who elevates the work of everyone around you.
• Thrives in Ambiguity: You are energized by complex, loosely defined problems and have a track record of creating clarity and direction from chaos.
• All-In: This is not a 9-5. You understand that building a category-defining company requires immense focus and commitment. We are optimizing for the best, and we compensate generously for it.
• Strategic Ownership: You take complete ownership of the user experience and its impact on the business, from high-level strategy down to the pixels.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in Product Design, with a portfolio showcasing your work on complex, shipped products.
• Proven experience leading the design of products from 0-to-1 or navigating significant product redesigns.
• Experience building and maintaining design systems that accelerate development.
• An expert communicator who can articulate design strategy and rationale to engineers, executives, and customers with equal clarity.
• Deep proficiency in Figma and other modern design and prototyping tools.
• (Preferred) Experience in B2B SaaS, enterprise software, or fintech.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary and a significant equity package.
• 401(k) with 100% match up to 6%.
• Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance.
• The opportunity to build the design function and culture at a world-class company.
• 18k/yr housing stipend if you live in lower manhattan