What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Designer position at Endex?
Who We Are
Over the next few years, every financial institution will have teams of AI analysts working alongside their sharpest minds. At Endex, we're on a mission to bridge the present to the inevitable by building the most sophisticated digital coworker native in Excel. We're a team working on the frontier of agentic development and applied finance, in close collaboration with leading research labs and backed by OpenAI ($14M Raise in Aug. 2025).
With significant demand after our launch, financial firms across the country recognize agentic AI in financial modeling is the future.
About the Role
Location: New York City
Commitment: 5-6 days in-person
As Founding Designer at Endex, you'll define how financial professionals interact with AI in their most critical workflows. You'll design intuitive interfaces for agentic AI, building a design system that scales, and establishing the visual identity of a category-defining product. If you want to shape how Wall Street works with AI, this is your opportunity.
What You'll Own
Core Product Experience: Design the end-to-end user journey for interacting with AI agents in Excel. Create intuitive interfaces for complex workflows (prompting, iterating, reviewing AI outputs)
Onboarding & Activation: Craft the first-time user experience that takes someone from "what is this?" to "I can't work without this."
Design System: Build and maintain our design system from scratch.
Visual Identity: Shape Endex's brand through our product, marketing site, and collateral. Create a visual language that feels sophisticated, trustworthy, and cutting-edge
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Engineering and Product to ship designs. Balance user needs with technical constraints, especially within Excel's add-in environment
Growth & Conversion: Design signup flows, pricing pages, and upgrade prompts that drive conversion
Who You Are
Product Designer: You have a strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design, from research and wireframes to high-fidelity mockups and shipped features
User-Obsessed: You deeply understand user workflows and pain points. You conduct research proactively and let insights drive your design decisions
Technically Fluent: You understand technical constraints and can work effectively with engineers. You know what's possible in web technologies and can design within platform limitations
Detail-Oriented: Your designs are polished and production-ready
Fast Executor: You ship quickly, and iterate based on feedback
Strong Communicator: You articulate design decisions clearly and can advocate for user needs across the organization
Requirements
3+ years of product design experience at technology companies, ideally B2B SaaS or technical tools
Strong portfolio showcasing end-to-end product design work with measurable impact
Proficiency in modern design tools (Figma required)
Experience designing complex workflows or enterprise software
Bonus Points
Background in finance or financial services—you understand Excel power users and financial modeling workflows
Experience designing AI/ML products or agentic interfaces
Experience with design systems or component libraries
Front-end development skills (HTML/CSS/JavaScript)
Experience at early-stage startups (seed to Series A)
Benefits
Competitive salary + meaningful equity
Health & dental insurance
Monthly wellness stipend
401(k) matching