Staff Product Designer - Singapore
Summary
Leads design vision for Syfe’s wealth platform, framing ambiguous problems, setting direction for teams, and shipping user-centric features that redefine wealth management in APAC.
Syfe is APAC's largest and fastest-growing digital wealth platform, trusted with over US$10 billion in assets. We are fundamentally changing how hundreds of thousands of people across Asia-Pacific build wealth through a holistic approach to managing money rather than just pushing investment products. Backed by world-class investors and recognised as a leader in WealthTech, we are a team of passionate builders creating the future of wealth management.
The Right Profile
The Staff Product Designer is a cornerstone of design leadership at Syfe. Based in Singapore, this role operates at the intersection of ambiguity and impact, shaping problems before they're defined, setting direction that senior designers work from, and producing work that resets what the team thinks is possible. The right candidate finds signal faster than those around them, runs themselves with minimal oversight, and goes well beyond design into content, research, and metrics because they care about what landed, not just what shipped. They use AI to sharpen their thinking and move faster, adapt their process to the problem at hand, and thrive where there is no precedent to borrow from.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the design direction for multiple product verticals, a new-to-Syfe bet, or a problem that cuts across verticals - setting the vision, principles and quality bar that other designers and teams work from.
- Scope and frame problems before they are defined. Reframe fuzzy asks, articulate what success looks like, name what's explicitly out of scope, and secure alignment before anyone opens Figma.
- Break big work into a sequence of bets that each produces learning, so nothing you own depends on a single all-or-nothing launch. Define what each stage must prove and what would make us stop.
- Decide what the team needs to learn, then run the research or experiment that settles it. Combine qualitative and quantitative evidence and return a decision-ready read, not raw findings.
- Bring cross-functional partners along with a clear point of view. Argue hard for the user, make the trade-offs legible to Product, Engineering, Data and Business, and commit fully once the team aligns.
- Model the craft ceiling on flagship surfaces - the work people point to when they describe what good looks like at Syfe - and articulate what makes it differentiated, not merely functional.
- Raise the level of designers around you through direction-setting, critique and pairing, without taking the work off their plate.
- Work alongside engineering partners to hold design quality through implementation, and to improve how design and engineering work together.
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years of product design experience designing and shipping web and Android / iOS apps in eCommerce, SaaS or other online businesses, including sustained ownership of problems spanning more than one product area.
- A portfolio that shows how you operate in ambiguity - how you framed a problem nobody had defined, what you chose to prove first, what you learned, and what changed as a result. Outcomes matter more than screens here.
- Evidence that your direction has been adopted by others - designers, teams or the wider org building on a framing or standard you set.
- Strong visual and interaction design skills, with excellent judgement in typography, layout, hierarchy, consistency, and interaction details.
- High proficiency in Figma - on design and prototyping. Familiarity with AI tools like Claude, Codex, Cursor or Antigravity.
- Fluency with research and experimentation: you can design a study, read an A/B result honestly, and tell a real signal from a flattering one.
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills - able to influence senior stakeholders without authority and to make a complex trade-off understandable in one page.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working within the wealth management industry, or in another regulated domain where constraints shape the experience.
- Exposure to online B2C environments, with a strong understanding of consumer digital experiences.
- Experience launching a product or business line that did not exist before, from first framing to market.
Come As You Are
We believe in the power of diversity and are dedicated to creating a welcoming and innovative environment for all our employees. So we embrace and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and provide equal employment opportunities for all.
Due to the volume of applications, we regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.