What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Product Designer position at Cambridge Investment Research, Inc.?
Job Summary
Key Deliverables and Responsibilities
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead the design of complex, enterprise-scale products with a strong emphasis on design systems strategy, governance, and execution. You’ll partner closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and stakeholders to shape cohesive, intuitive, and scalable user experiences across multiple products and platforms.
This role requires deep expertise in design systems: you will be a key or primary owner responsible for evolving, maintaining, and evangelizing our enterprise design system to ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency across teams. You will also apply your strong foundation in UI and UX design to solve complex workflows, balancing usability, accessibility, and visual clarity in a highly technical, multi-stakeholder environment.
In addition, you’ll bring hands-on experience and curiosity around AI-powered experiences, helping translate emerging AI capabilities into practical, human-centered solutions that improve workflows for financial professionals, associates, and clients. From early concepting and research through high‑fidelity execution and optimization, your work will meaningfully influence the architecture, usability, and scalability of our product ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities and Deliverables
Salary Range: $1100,000 - 120,000. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate based on the ideal candidate’s qualifications, the company’s operational needs, and other factors permitted by law. Actual compensation may vary depending on experience, skills, education, performance, internal equity, and geographic location.
Why Cambridge? Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to support your health, well-being, and work-life balance. We offer paid time off, paid holidays and floating holidays, medical, dental, and vision coverage, short- and long-term disability, and company-paid life insurance. Associates also enjoy volunteer time off, wellness incentives, and additional benefits that support you both personally and professionally.
You can find more details about our comprehensive benefits package here.
Company Overview: At Cambridge, our purpose is simple: to make a difference in the lives of our financial advisors, their clients, and our associates. Founded in 1981, we have nearly 45 years of experience supporting independent financial advisors with industry-leading tools, compliance, and transition services. Guided by our core values—integrity, commitment, flexibility, and kindness—we put financial advisors first in every decision we make.
Cambridge is an internally controlled, growth-focused independent broker-dealer with $254 billion in assets under advisement and $1.97 billion in annual revenues. We rank among the largest and fastest-growing firms in the industry, providing financial advisors with the flexibility, resources, and support to thrive. With home offices in Fairfield, Iowa, and Phoenix, Arizona, and a nationwide reach, our 900 associates maintain a 4:1 advisor-to-associate ratio to ensure personalized service.
Our community of over 4,000 producing financial advisors includes diverse business models—RIA, corporate RIA, hybrid, fee-only, and brokerage—and offers a broad selection of investment solutions with no proprietary products. At Cambridge, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and empowering workplace, where 60% of our associates and 18% of our financial advisors are women, and 17% of our advisors are under 40.
Join us to help financial advisors succeed, make an impact, and discover your Something Wonderful. For further information about Cambridge, please visit https://www.joincambridge.com/
Work Environments
This role offers a hybrid schedule, requiring three days weekly in the office. Applicants should be located near one of our hubs (Fairfield, IA or Phoenix, AZ) and must be willing to work this schedule. Cambridge is not considering remote candidates at this time.
Recruiting Agencies: This position is being managed directly by Cambridge’s Talent Acquisition team. We will reach out to our preferred agency partners in the rare instance we require additional talent options. Fees will not be paid for unsolicited submissions. Your respect for this process is appreciated.
Key Deliverables and Responsibilities
As a Senior Product Designer, you will lead the design of complex, enterprise-scale products with a strong emphasis on design systems strategy, governance, and execution. You’ll partner closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and stakeholders to shape cohesive, intuitive, and scalable user experiences across multiple products and platforms.
This role requires deep expertise in design systems: you will be a key or primary owner responsible for evolving, maintaining, and evangelizing our enterprise design system to ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency across teams. You will also apply your strong foundation in UI and UX design to solve complex workflows, balancing usability, accessibility, and visual clarity in a highly technical, multi-stakeholder environment.
In addition, you’ll bring hands-on experience and curiosity around AI-powered experiences, helping translate emerging AI capabilities into practical, human-centered solutions that improve workflows for financial professionals, associates, and clients. From early concepting and research through high‑fidelity execution and optimization, your work will meaningfully influence the architecture, usability, and scalability of our product ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities and Deliverables
- Own, evolve, and champion adoption of the enterprise design system, including components, patterns, documentation, and governance.
- Design and deliver high-quality, scalable UI and UX solutions across web and mobile products, ensuring consistency, usability, and accessibility.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to define product vision, align roadmaps, and execute cohesive experiences across multiple product streams.
- Apply advanced UX design principles to AI-enabled features, automation, and data-driven workflows.
- Translate complex technical requirements into clear, intuitive, and user-centered design solutions.
- Conduct user research, journey mapping, usability testing, and data-informed iteration.
- Prototype and iterate on concepts from early exploration through high-fidelity execution.
- Advocate for users and articulate design rationale through clear storytelling and facilitation.
- Share best practices, frameworks, and tools to elevate design quality and efficiency at scale.
- Extensive design system expertise, including enterprise-level creation, maintenance, and scaling.
- 5 years of experience in product, UX, or UI design, with a strong portfolio demonstrating complex, real-world products.
- Strong foundation in information architecture, interaction design, and visual design.
- Proven ability to work across large, multi-product ecosystems and deeply technical domains.
- Demonstrated experience contributing to or leading initiatives from concept through launch and iteration.
- Hands-on experience with AI-driven features or workflows, with the ability to translate AI capabilities into usable, ethical, and intuitive experiences.
- Advanced proficiency in modern design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma), including component libraries, variants, and token-based workflows.
- Experience designing for accessibility, inclusive design, and WCAG-compliant experiences.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Passion for raising the quality and impact of design, and a track record of elevating design practices or teams.
- Portfolio showcasing design systems, complex UX challenges, and data-informed design decisions.
Salary Range: $1100,000 - 120,000. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate based on the ideal candidate’s qualifications, the company’s operational needs, and other factors permitted by law. Actual compensation may vary depending on experience, skills, education, performance, internal equity, and geographic location.
Why Cambridge? Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to support your health, well-being, and work-life balance. We offer paid time off, paid holidays and floating holidays, medical, dental, and vision coverage, short- and long-term disability, and company-paid life insurance. Associates also enjoy volunteer time off, wellness incentives, and additional benefits that support you both personally and professionally.
You can find more details about our comprehensive benefits package here.
Company Overview: At Cambridge, our purpose is simple: to make a difference in the lives of our financial advisors, their clients, and our associates. Founded in 1981, we have nearly 45 years of experience supporting independent financial advisors with industry-leading tools, compliance, and transition services. Guided by our core values—integrity, commitment, flexibility, and kindness—we put financial advisors first in every decision we make.
Cambridge is an internally controlled, growth-focused independent broker-dealer with $254 billion in assets under advisement and $1.97 billion in annual revenues. We rank among the largest and fastest-growing firms in the industry, providing financial advisors with the flexibility, resources, and support to thrive. With home offices in Fairfield, Iowa, and Phoenix, Arizona, and a nationwide reach, our 900 associates maintain a 4:1 advisor-to-associate ratio to ensure personalized service.
Our community of over 4,000 producing financial advisors includes diverse business models—RIA, corporate RIA, hybrid, fee-only, and brokerage—and offers a broad selection of investment solutions with no proprietary products. At Cambridge, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and empowering workplace, where 60% of our associates and 18% of our financial advisors are women, and 17% of our advisors are under 40.
Join us to help financial advisors succeed, make an impact, and discover your Something Wonderful. For further information about Cambridge, please visit https://www.joincambridge.com/
Work Environments
This role offers a hybrid schedule, requiring three days weekly in the office. Applicants should be located near one of our hubs (Fairfield, IA or Phoenix, AZ) and must be willing to work this schedule. Cambridge is not considering remote candidates at this time.
Recruiting Agencies: This position is being managed directly by Cambridge’s Talent Acquisition team. We will reach out to our preferred agency partners in the rare instance we require additional talent options. Fees will not be paid for unsolicited submissions. Your respect for this process is appreciated.
Salary : $120,000 - $1,100,000