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About the Role
Lead and evolve Luminary's design organization as we build the next generation of software for wealth advisors, trust companies, and the families they serve. This is a hands-on leadership role overseeing the design function, managing designers, and partnering with Product and Engineering leadership to shape product strategy and design operations.
Responsibilities
- Lead Luminary’s design function, including product and brand design.
- Manage two Principal Designers and build the design team as the company grows.
- Set the vision and quality bar for design, ensuring a cohesive, intuitive, and polished user experience.
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership to shape product strategy, roadmap priorities, and execution.
- Develop a deep understanding of customers, their workflows, and wealth management challenges to guide UX.
- Drive end-to-end design for strategic initiatives, from research and product definition through high-fidelity design and launch.
- Establish scalable design processes, critiques, and feedback loops.
- Continue evolving the design system to improve consistency, speed, and usability.
Requirements
- 12+ years of product design experience, with experience leading and managing high-performing product design teams.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional product thinking, interaction design, and visual design across complex software products.
- Experience partnering closely with product and engineering leaders to define product strategy and organizational priorities.
- A track record of building, mentoring, and developing designers while creating an environment where great design work can thrive.
- A systems-oriented mindset with experience building and maintaining scalable design systems and design operations.
- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to influence decisions across disciplines and organizational levels.
- Experience designing complex B2B SaaS products (financial technology or enterprise software experience is a plus).
- Experience designing for both web and mobile platforms.
Skills
- User experience design
- Visual design
- Product design
- Interaction design
- Design systems
- Design operations
- HTML/CSS or front-end technologies (nice-to-have)
Location
- NYC
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 12+ years of product design experience
- Experience leading and managing high-performing product design teams
Benefits
- 100% employee health insurance coverage (plus 50% dependent coverage)
- Monthly wellness stipend
- 20 days per year of PTO, plus holidays
- 401(k) plan
- Parental leave policy
About the Company
- Luminary is the AI-native system of action for wealth transfer services.
- High net worth households controlling more than $90 trillion in assets are meaningfully underserved by technology that was built for the mass market.
- Luminary solves this problem by transforming complex estate planning and ownership documents into a structured, proprietary data asset that powers verticalized, agent-driven workflows for tax and wealth transfer services.
- Our built-in multi-firm collaboration connects a client's full advisor ecosystem and is the core infrastructure that enables our customers to deliver a highly personalized, end-to-end wealth transfer service offering at scale.
- Our 1,000+ customers are leaders across the private client services ecosystem.
- Founded and led by CEO David Barnard, former Head of Wealth Management at AllianceBernstein, Luminary is backed by 8VC, Fin Capital, Rockefeller Capital, Focus Financial Partners, and several family offices.