Founding Designer (US)

We are looking for a Founding Designer with 3+ years of experience to own the entire UX and visual design surface of an AI-native consumer finance product backed by Sequoia and Jump Trading. You'll join a team of 6 in Palo Alto building the system that turns natural language intent into settled financial action, say what you believe about the market and Catalyst researches, constructs, and executes the trade for you. This is a high-ownership role where you'll shape how people interact with financial agents, designing discovery-driven experiences that go far beyond putting a chat box inside a brokerage app. We want someone who is deeply user-focused, self-motivated, and excited to define the design vision from the ground up.

What will you be doing?

• Conducting user interviews and talking directly with traders to deeply understand their needs, then translating those insights into intuitive, consumer-grade interfaces for complex financial workflows

• Designing new interaction patterns for AI-native financial products, think passive discovery feeds (inspired by social apps like Instagram and Snapchat) rather than traditional chat-based interfaces

• Taking complex financial concepts, data, and agent behavior and making them feel simple and understandable at a glance, similar to how Robinhood elevated the trading experience

• Working independently alongside founders and engineers to identify what needs improvement, redesign it, and ship it quickly

• Developing and evolving Catalyst's design system, visual language, and overall product experience end-to-end