About the Role
Rillet serves accounting and finance teams, empowering them to achieve impossible speed, accuracy, and insight with an AI-native ERP designed for a zero-day close. This role is for a design leader who will thrive in ambiguity, build products from inception, establish scalable design systems, and lead teams through rapid growth. The ideal candidate balances strategic vision with hands-on execution, driven by the challenge of making complex financial software genuinely elegant and appreciating the value of equipping customers with perfect financial tools.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the full design process from user research, product flows, wire-framing, to UI design
- Collaborate with product and engineering to define short-term tactical goals and long-term product vision and roadmap
- Establish design principles and set direction for Rillet's design system
- Lead user research initiatives
- Understand user goals, business requirements, and technical constraints that shape the product
- Invent new interaction paradigms in finance & accounting by drawing inspiration from various sources
- Lead, mentor, and coach a team of product designers
- Recruit and onboard new product designers
- Contribute directly to Rillet's UX/UI design
Requirements
- Thrives in ambiguity and sees constraints as creative opportunities
- Proven experience building products from 0 1
- Established scalable design systems
- Led teams through rapid growth
- Balances strategic thinking with hands-on craft
- Energized by making complex financial software genuinely elegant
- 5+ years of end-to-end design experience across all stages of the design process
- 3+ years leading design teams in product-driven B2B SaaS environments
- Ability to solve complex design problems and visualize complex systems, from financial concepts to design system components
- Strong cross-functional communication skills for effective collaboration with internal teams and customers
- Challenger mindset that questions the status quo and invents new paradigms
Skills
- Design leadership
- Product development (0
- Design system architecture
- Team leadership
- Strategic design thinking
- UI/UX design
- User research
- Product flow definition
- Wire-framing
- Problem-solving
- System visualization
- Cross-functional communication
- Mentoring
- Recruiting
Location
- New York City
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years end-to-end design experience
- 3+ years leading design teams
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
- Equity
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Equity
- Top-tier health insurance (employee premiums partially or fully covered)
- Top-tier dental insurance (employee premiums partially or fully covered)
- 90% dependent coverage for health and dental insurance
- Opportunity for role, responsibilities, and compensation growth
- Flexible PTO
- 9 company-wide holidays
- Team offsites
About the Company
- Rillet serves accounting and finance teams, enabling them to run numbers with speed, accuracy, and insight.
- Rillet is an AI-native ERP for a zero-day close.
- Features a unified source-of-truth data model, hundreds of native integrations, automated & auditable workflows, multi-entity consolidation, and specialized AI agents.
- Achieves consistently perfect customer satisfaction scores.
- Customers include high-growth AI companies like Mercor and Function Health.
- Raised $100M from leading investors including Sequoia, a16z, Iconiq, Oak HC/FT, and First Round.
- Company culture emphasizes extreme speed, agency, flexibility, and customer-centric delivery.
