Product Designer

Shape the Future on Autopilot At Autopilot, you won t just design screens - you ll design how fintech works. As a Product Designer, you ll own product experiences end-to-end and help redefine what great UX means in a complex, data-driven industry. We re building a high-performance, AI-native Fintech Operating System designed to optimize cost and revenue for digital businesses. Join us on a multi-year mission to build smarter infrastructure for commerce. Why Join Us? You ll help build an ambitious product from the ground up, with a team that values speed, craft, and autonomy. If you re ready to make an outsized impact in fintech, we d love to meet you. About the Role You'll join a fast-moving team building modern, data-intensive web applications that help digital businesses operate more intelligently. This is a founding design role with strong emphasis on product logic, systems thinking, and end-to-end collaboration with engineers. What You'll Do • Translate complex financial logic and backend systems into intuitive user flows • Design dashboards, workflows, and visual systems for payments, orchestration, and automation • Build and maintain our scalable design system in Figma (aligned with React components) • Collaborate with engineers on real-world UX states - success, failure, pending, retry • Prototype and validate features with real data and user context • Participate in product discussions, shaping user journeys before pixels are drawn • Uphold usability and domain accuracy as the standard for design quality What We're Looking For • 5+ years of experience designing digital products with complex logic (fintech, B2B SaaS, or data-heavy systems preferred) • Strong product and systems thinking - you design for states and workflows, not just screens • Deep Figma expertise (Auto Layout, Variants, Tokens, Components) • Ability to translate backend logic, APIs, and data models into coherent user experiences • Excellent communication and documentation skills (Linear, Figma, Slack) • Comfortable working directly with engineers and iterating quickly without handoffs Bonus Points • Experience in fintech, payments, or compliance-related products • Exposure to analytics or developer tooling • Understanding of design-to-code workflows (React component parity, tokens) • Strong interaction or motion design craft (Framer, ProtoPie, etc.) Our Hiring Process We focus on real-world collaboration, not design showreels. Here s what to expect: • Apply with LinkedIn Profile And Resume We ll review based on the requirements above. If shortlisted, you ll receive an email to schedule a 90-minute live design collaboration session once you re comfortable with our pre-interview brief. • 90-Minute Live Design Collaboration You ll work with our product and engineering team on a small feature challenge - from user problem to Figma prototype. We ll look at: • How you think through logic and flows • How you translate constraints into UX decisions • Your interaction, hierarchy, and state management • How you communicate trade-offs and rationale The session mirrors our actual workflow: • accessible • pragmatic • collaborative • Design Review & Feedback After the session, we ll walk through your design decisions together. You ll get feedback from our CTO and team, and discuss potential improvements or extensions to your solution. • Culture & Alignment Chat A final call with CEO to discuss your long-term goals, how you work best, and whether Autopilot is the right fit for both sides. Originally posted on Himalayas