Head of Design in London

OpenFX is on a mission to move money as freely as data, unrestricted by time zones, banking hours, or legacy systems. We are building the infrastructure that will power the next generation of cross-border payment systems for institutions.

We are seeking an exceptional Head of Design to lead our design organization during a critical phase of product maturity and scale. You will own the end-to-end design vision for our platform, creating intuitive interfaces that make complex financial operations feel simple for our institutional partners. This is a foundational role where you will lead the design strategy for our core suite of products across multiple currencies and blockchain networks. Your work will directly impact how banks, payment providers, and fintech companies manage billions in transaction volume. You will establish design operations that can support our 10x growth trajectory, building systems that enable rapid iteration without sacrificing quality or consistency.

What You'll Actually Do & Own

• Audit and Rebuild: In your first six months, you will conduct a comprehensive audit of our current design system and user experience, identifying critical gaps where design debt is creating operational friction or limiting our ability to scale. You will establish the foundation for a world-class design organization.
• Design Financial Tooling: You will work closely with our product and engineering teams to improve our trading and treasury management interfaces, bringing sophisticated financial operations tooling to life through clean, purposeful design.
• Build the Design System: You will create a scalable design system that supports multiple product lines, define our approach to user research with institutional clients, and ensure that accessibility and usability standards are embedded in everything we ship.
• Build and Mentor the Team: You will build and mentor a design team as we scale, establishing the culture, processes, and standards that will define design excellence at OpenFX.
• Shape Design Strategy: You will partner effectively with product managers and engineers to make smart tradeoffs under constraints.

What Success Looks Like

• Platform Transformation: In your first year, you will have transformed our platform's usability, making previously manual or error-prone operations intuitive and reliable.
• Design System Velocity: Your design system will enable our engineering team to ship new features faster while maintaining visual and interaction consistency across the platform.
• Organizational Foundation: You will have built the foundation for a world-class design organization that can scale with our ambitious growth plans.

Requirements

• 8+ Years in Design with Financial Systems Leadership: You have 8+ years of design experience with at least 3 years leading design for trading systems, market-making platforms, treasury management tools, or institutional financial software.
• Trading UI/UX Expertise: You have deep, hands-on experience with trading UI/UX patterns.
• Banking and Payments Product Knowledge: You bring substantial knowledge of banking and payments products.
• Systems Thinking: You are a systems thinker who can architect comprehensive design frameworks.
• Collaborative and Pragmatic: You are collaborative and pragmatic, knowing how to partner effectively with product managers and engineers.
• Portfolio Evidence: You can point to a portfolio demonstrating your experience with financial services design.

Preferred

• Digital Asset Fluency: You are fluent in both fiat and digital asset contexts.
• Design System Architecture: Experience building design systems from scratch for complex B2B platforms.
• User Research in Institutional Contexts: Experience conducting user research with institutional clients.

Why This Role?

• Design Leadership: You will be joining at an inflection point where design can fundamentally shape our product trajectory.
• The Frontier of Fintech: You will work on technically sophisticated problems at the frontier of fintech innovation.
• Direct User Access: You will have direct access to institutional users.
• The Team: You are joining a team of ex-Stripe, J.P. Morgan, and PayPal product managers and engineers.

To apply: Please submit your portfolio demonstrating your experience with financial services design, particularly trading systems or institutional platforms, along with your resume.