As a Product Designer & Manager (UX Focus) at Elayne, you’ll own the entire user experience journey—from concept to delivery—and lead product development to ensure our solutions are impactful and user-centered. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a lean, high-impact environment, loves end-to-end product development, and is motivated by creating meaningful and intuitive experiences. If you’re passionate about understanding user needs, crafting impactful visuals, driving product strategy, and building a platform that offers clarity during life’s most challenging times, we’d love to meet you.
About the co: We're a YC and Tier-1 VC backed seed stage company founded in 2024 and were featured on the TechCrunch YC startups to watch list: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/13-companies-from-yc-demo-day-1-that-are-worth-paying-attention-to/
What You’ll Be Working On
- End-to-End Product Ownership: Take complete ownership of the product development lifecycle, from ideation, UX research, and wireframes to final design and user acceptance. Work closely with stakeholders to define product requirements, iterate on features, and ensure successful delivery
- Product Strategy and Vision: Use insights from user research, analytics, and stakeholder feedback to shape a clear, focused product roadmap. Help the team prioritize initiatives that deliver the most value to our users and the business
- UX Research and Validation: Conduct in-depth UX research, including user interviews, usability testing, and iterative design processes to translate insights into platform design. Validate product features through prototyping, testing, and collaboration with users
- Understanding User Analytics: Leverage user analytics to identify key trends and insights. Build and maintain dashboards to track key performance indicators (KPIs), using this data to refine and prioritize features that enhance user experience and drive business value
- Inclusive Design Approach: Craft seamless interactions that serve a variety of users, from internal team workflows to external interactions with HR portals, tax, accounting, and legal professionals, and even judges. Your designs will make our platform accessible and intuitive for users of all walks of life, including elderly users and individuals from different cultural backgrounds
What Will Make You Stand Out
- 5+ years of UX design and research experience, with a strong portfolio showcasing both functional and visual design skills
- Proficiency in Figma, with a sharp eye for detail, consistency, and impactful visuals
- Web and Mobile Design Knowledge, with an understanding of best practices and common navigation patterns across platforms
- Proficiency with product analytics tools such as Amplitude, MixPanel, or PostHog, with the ability to derive actionable insights from data
- Empathy and Curiosity; a passion for user-centered design that makes complex tasks more approachable and compassionate, especially when the end user is in a state of grief
Bonus Points For
- Experience in LegalTech—Elayne operates at the intersection of LegalTech, FinTech, and WealthTech. While we have deep expertise in finance and wealth-building, your experience in LegalTech would be a fantastic addition to the team
- Product Illustration Experience to add personality and warmth to our platform
- Experience leading user acceptance testing (UAT) and iterative product development
What You’ll Get
- Competitive Salary + Stock Options: Grow with us and through a performance-based stock options plan
- Health Insurance
- Flexible work schedule: the goal is to do 3-4 days in the office weekly, but we are flexible and can adapt as we progress
Why Our Team?
At Elayne, we’re on a mission to bring compassion and clarity to one of life’s toughest challenges – a family member’s death. Join us if you’d like to work with a founding team that’s not only expanding into a huge untapped market but is also on a mission to make a positive difference in the world.
Let’s shine a light through loss, we look forward to hearing from you!
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What We Do
Elayne is transforming how millions of Americans navigate the complex and emotional journey of losing a loved one. Today, this process involves 400+ hours of paperwork, phone calls, and endless admin. We’re building the “TurboTax for Estates”—a modern, AI-driven platform that simplifies end-of-life management with automation, fintech, and innovation.
As the first unified solution for estate planning and post-loss navigation, Elayne empowers families to focus on healing while securing generational wealth. Join our lean, high-impact team of FinTech experts as we modernize this outdated, manual, and cumbersome process with the latest tech and a shared passion for solving meaningful problems while building a massive company.
We're a YC and Tier-1 VC backed seed stage company founded in 2024. Will announce the raise in Q2 2025!
Why Work With Us
Join Elayne and be part of a mission to transform how families navigate loss, access estate planning, and build generational wealth. As an early team member, you’ll shape our culture and growth while tackling a universal challenge. This is a rare opportunity to make a lasting impact by building an extraordinary experience from the ground up.
