Contract Product Designer, UX Engineer – Capital Markets, AI Prototyping

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🗽 New York – Remote

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🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

💻 Frontend Engineer / Web Developer

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Mercata

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Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Finance

Mercata is an AI-native research operating system built for elite fundamental investment teams. It ingests filings, earnings transcripts, news, expert calls, and proprietary notes to maintain self-updating theses, watchlists, and portfolio monitoring tools, enabling analysts and portfolio managers to detect thesis drift, synthesize evidence, and make conviction-driven decisions faster. Mercata is a B2B SaaS platform focused on helping investment firms scale research coverage, preserve analytical context, and generate alpha through structured alerts and queryable, memory-backed research across an investor's coverage universe.

1 - 10 employees

Founded 2025

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

💸 Finance

📋 Description

• **The Role: Product Designer / UX Engineer**We’re looking for a designer-builder who understands front-office capital markets workflows and can move seamlessly from UX thinking to working prototypes using AI coding tools. • This is not a “Figma-only” design role. You will work directly in tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, Replit, Lovable, or similar environments to create fast 0→1 functional prototypes, iterate rapidly on our existing product, and deeply shape how analysts interact with Mercata’s knowledge graph. • You’ll work tightly with the CEO and CTO, embed directly with users, and drive short, fast feedback loops. You’ll bring clarity to complex workflows, simplify where others add noise, and help define a product that feels inevitable in hindsight. • Most critically, we’re looking for someone with **genuine front-office capital markets experience**, ideally working with or within buy-side fundamental teams (equity analysts, associate PMs, PMs) and understanding deeply their workflows. You should have strong opinions about what works and what doesn’t for professional investors, and be able to translate that into elegant, functional interfaces that make analysts faster and more confident.

🎯 Requirements

• **Must Have** • - 2-4 years Front-office capital markets experience (buy-side or sell-side research, PM team, or having built tools directly for analysts/PMs) with a deep understanding of how analysts work: evaluating companies, tracking changes, forming theses, and operating under time pressure. • - Comfortable iterating quickly and building functional UI with Cursor, Lovable, Replit, or other tools instead of only Figma mock-ups. • - Strong workflow and interaction design instincts for data-dense, multi-step research workflows. • - Startup experience • **Mindset** • - Low ego, high ownership, strong communication.