Overview
Terminal X is hiring a Founding Designer to define how our product and company are remembered. This is a rare opportunity to own design end-to-end at a company building a category that's still visually undefined. You’ll shape the visual language for AI in finance and set the standard for how Terminal X shows up everywhere.
In this hybrid role, you’ll work across both brand and product, with more weight towards visual craft.
Who We Are
Terminal X is a New York-based fintech company and the definitive Vertical AI layer for Asset Management. Not a chatbot. Not a search engine. An Agentic OS that replicates how analysts and investment teams actually think — parsing datarooms, building investment theses, underwriting deals, stress-testing models, and autonomously executing complex, multi-step workflows for asset managers.
Terminal X reasons over financial institution's proprietary data, internal models, IC notes, emails with real-time market data to execute the last mile investment process. Terminal X deploys Finance and AI experts ('Forward Deployed Engineers') on site to customize for each desk's specific workflows. What it delivers: Autonomous AI Analysts that build IC-ready investment memos and rigorous portfolio analysis. Trusted by global asset managers and leading sovereign wealth funds to transform internal data into a competitive edge.
More about us → https://terminal-x.ai/
What You’ll Own
- Brand system: Define and evolve the visual language of Terminal X. The typography, color, motion, and iconography should make every touchpoint feel distinctively Terminal X
- Every brand surface: Website, socials, deck, out of home campaigns, editorial content, product, and more. If it’s seen externally, you own how it looks and feels
- Product storytelling: Collaborate with the marketing and product teams to turn complex systems into clear, high-signal visuals. Launches, reports, and narratives that make the product immediately legible
- Product craft: Raise the visual bar across our core product. You’ll partner with Product and Engineering to turn complex systems into clear, high-signal interfaces
- Visual standard: You build templates, libraries, and systems that let others execute at your level. Final design output runs through you
Who You Are
Required
- Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft across brand or product: polished UI, typography, layout, hierarchy, originality, and clear taste
- You design seamlessly across web, digital, print, motion, presentation
- You are proficient in motion design using tools like After Effects, Rive, or equivalent
- You have taste. You can dissect a brand, find what’s actually special about it, and argue for the unconventional direction with conviction
- You are proficient in Figma and modern AI design tools (Jitter, After Effects, Claude Code, image generation tools)
- You obsess over details that matter. When a slide breaks the visual narrative, you lose sleep over it
- You consistently ship high-quality designs at speed
Strong Differentiator
- Prior startup or design agency experience with B2B brands
- Experience contributing to or extending design systems across product and marketing surfaces
- Based in NYC or willing to move
Why Terminal X
⤴️ Join at the J curve
- We’re early. The product is live, PMF is real, and the category is still undefined. You’ll shape what Terminal X becomes, not refine what already exists.
🌎 Operate at speed
- We ship fast. Ideas move from concept to product in days, not quarters. You’ll experience true 0→1 building in a high-velocity environment.
🥇 Work with exceptional people
- You’ll work closely with a small, high-caliber team of engineers, investors, and operators from firms like Google DeepMind, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Blackstone, and Tiger Global alongside former founders and international competition medalists.
👤 High standards, low ego
- We have a zero tolerance policy for mediocrity. We expect excellence for every player in the team and you will be one of them.
Compensation & Logistics
Comp varies based on experience. Range of $100–150K base depending on experience, plus equity / stock options. This is a full-time, on-site position at our New York office.
Hiring Process
Round 1
Resume + portfolio and 30-minute call with the team
Round 2
Design exercise: Brand audit + one surface redesign
Round 3
Final round with founders → Offer (<2 weeks)
Email [email protected] with Title: "FoundingDesigner_YOUR NAME"