Product Designer

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As a Product Designer at 8am, you will play a central role in shaping how legal, accounting, and other professional firms manage and grow their businesses. You will take ownership of meaningful product areas, designing intuitive, trustworthy, and efficient workflows that sit at the core of our fintech platform. You will collaborate closely with other designers in your product area to ensure clarity, consistency, and craft across the platform.

You will work daily with Product Managers, Engineers, User Researchers, Content Designers, and key business stakeholders to uncover problems, define solutions, and deliver user-centered experiences that support complex financial workflows. Your design decisions will directly influence product-led growth by improving how users activate, adopt, and succeed within our tools.

This role is a strong fit for a curious, proactive designer who enjoys solving complex problems, partnering deeply with cross-functional teammates, and elevating both design craft and product outcomes.

At 8am, our vision is to power a world where professionals thrive. We start every day on a mission to empower professionals with the most trusted, innovative technology to deliver world-class outcomes for their clients and exceptional financial results for their business. They count on our purpose‑built solutions to simplify operations, ensure compliance, and fuel profitable growth, so they can focus on their clients and do more of the work that matters.

Founded in 2005, 8am™ (formerly Affini Pay) is the professional business platform built to help legal, accounting, and other client‑focused professionals run stronger, more profitable businesses. Today, more than 250,000 professionals across the U.S. trust 8am to help them work smarter, serve clients better, and unlock their full potential. We have been recognized as one of Inc 5000's fastest growing companies in the U.S. for 13 years in a row, and as a result, our teams continue to grow as well!

• Translate business and product objectives into user‑centered solutions that directly influence growth metrics such as activation, conversion, retention, and self‑serve adoption.
• Design and iterate on features, including those powered by AI or automation, that deliver clear customer value and improve efficiency.
• Optimize user journeys to help customers discover, adopt, and gain value from key product capabilities.

• Work closely with other designers to align on direction, patterns, and opportunities to elevate the user experience.
• Partner with Product Managers, Engineers, User Researchers, Content Designers, and key stakeholders throughout the discovery, design, and development lifecycle.
• Collaborate closely with Engineers by providing clear design intent, prototypes, flows, and specifications to support accurate, high‑quality implementation.

• Develop a strong understanding of user goals, workflows, and pain points through research collaboration, customer feedback, and product data.
• Advocate for accessible, intuitive, and consistent experiences that build trust in a fintech environment.
• Ensure that user needs are addressed through cohesive end‑to‑end journeys that support clarity, efficiency, and confidence across the platform.

• Create thoughtful design deliverables across the product lifecycle, including concepts, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and production‑ready UI.
• Contribute to the evolution and scaling of our design system, ensuring patterns remain efficient, maintainable, and consistent across teams.
• Maintain a high bar for visual design, interaction clarity, usability, and polish.

• Take ownership of your problem spaces and proactively identify opportunities to simplify workflows and improve user outcomes.
• Communicate design decisions and tradeoffs clearly, balancing user needs with business goals and technical considerations.
• Seek out innovative approaches and contribute new ideas that elevate both the…