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Opto Investments is building an end-to-end platform to modernize private markets investing. The company serves wealth managers, family offices, and private banks, replacing manual processes (spreadsheets, slide decks, paperwork) with technology-driven solutions. The global alternative investments industry is forecast to reach $30T by 2029, yet the investment process remains opaque and error-prone.
As Head of Design, you will own product design as a function and lead the design team while directly designing critical product surfaces. This is a hands-on leadership role that bridges design, product, and engineering strategy.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead design on the most critical product surfaces, setting quality and usability standards
- Develop a clear point of view on AI-native product design, including trust, transparency, and human-AI interaction
- Define how product experiences are built across onboarding and core workflows, establishing principles for simplicity and clarity
- Partner with product and engineering leadership to shape direction, challenge decisions, and ensure coherent end-to-end experiences
- Push teams to simplify scope and focus on user value
- Bring design into strategic decisions early, influencing roadmap and prioritization
- Establish design systems, patterns, and practices that scale
- Build and grow the design team, setting a high bar for craft and execution
Success means design consistently shapes product decisions (not just execution), core workflows feel intuitive and coherent, the product has a unified interaction model, and teams ship high-quality experiences focused on outcomes.
Required background: 10+ years of product design experience, zero-to-one product design experience, contribution to product-market fit, B2B product experience (ideally fintech or data-heavy environments), and experience leading designers or operating at a leadership level as a senior IC. Must be authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.
