Founding Product Designer, Hazel AI

Hazel is building the AI engine for wealth management that helps unlock 10x growth, efficiency and value for financial advisors and their clients in a regulated industry. Since its launch last September, Hazel has organically and rapidly grown its user base.

Hazel is a part of Altruist's broader mission to make financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all.

We're hiring an experienced Founding Product Designer to lead design across Hazel end-to-end: from everyday admin workflows (notes, meetings, inbox, tasks) to Hazel's most complex, specialized AI agents, including financial planning, estate planning, and pairing/planning tools.

This is an individual-contributor role and our first and lead designer for Hazel. You'll have the opportunity to re-imagine wealth management workflows in an AI-native format in close partnership with Product and Engineering, and help shape and maintain our design system. You'll be a strategic partner in product decisions, weighing in on where a feature lives, what discovery should look like, and how to scope and sequence the work.

- Own the end-to-end design experience across Hazel, from core admin surfaces like note-taking, inbox, and tasks to specialized, high-complexity AI agents such as financial planning, and investment analysis.

- Design how Hazel captures context, summarizes information, follows up, asks clarifying questions, and takes action on a user's behalf, all while staying predictable, transparent, and trustworthy.

- Invent new interaction patterns for AI-assisted work where traditional UI doesn't fit, blending automation, suggestions, and human control to reduce cognitive load without hiding important context.

- Design patterns for how Hazel signals progress, uncertainty, permissions, and handoffs across multi-step and asynchronous workflows.

- Shape how Hazel explains what it's doing, why it's doing it, and what it needs from the user in a way that feels intuitive and trustworthy.

- Design, test, and refine experiences in tight feedback loops as Hazel's capabilities expand with model improvements.

- Work on critical-path features, adapting designs as the underlying agent becomes more capable and the product surface area grows.

- Contribute to and maintain Ethos, our design system, ensuring pixel-perfect implementation and consistent interaction patterns across Hazel and the broader platform.

- Obsess over the details that make tools feel calm, fast, and reliable: clear hierarchy, thoughtful defaults, crisp feedback loops, and minimal friction in day-to-day use.

- Shape product decisions and work fluidly across disciplines

- Design for a wide range of advisor tech-savviness, making complex agent workflows approachable without dumbing them down or overwhelming less technical users.

- Sit at the table on product strategy: help decide where features live, what to build versus defer, and what discovery is needed before committing to a direction.

- Pair with product marketing, brand, and engineers on implementation, and pressure-test ideas directly with users and design partners.

- 5+ years of experience in product design, with a focus on complex, multi-step workflows and end-to-end ownership from discovery through launch.

- Strong interaction design fundamentals and a track record of shipping real products-not just concepts or prototypes.

- A systems-level mindset for how features connect across a broad, complex product surface, and how those pieces should feel cohesive within one agent experience.

- High craft bar and strong taste in interaction, UX writing, and visual hierarchy, with the portfolio to back it up.

- Comfort designing in ambiguous problem spaces with evolving constraints and rapidly changing AI capabilities.

- Product judgment beyond the pixels: ability to reason about scope and impact of design on the business.

- Ability to prototype and build in code (e.g., HTML/CSS/JavaScript/TypeScript, React, or similar), and comfort working directly in front-end codebases.

- Experience designing or building AI-powered or agentic products, especially those that automate or assist with complex knowledge work.

- Background in productivity tools, admin workflows, financial planning, or advisor/knowledge work software.

- Familiarity with design systems and front-end component libraries, ideally in React or similar ecosystems.

- Provide a portfolio with clear, high-quality examples of shipped product work (not just mockups).

- Include any passwords required to access your portfolio; password-protected portfolios without credentials cannot be reviewed.

We are open to hiring a Senior or Staff-level Product Designer.

Compensation includes base compensation and meaningful equity. Actual compensation will be based on experience, level, and location.