The all-in-one liquidity platform for private companies and their shareholders. 

Before you work with Hiive you should review the Form CRS and these important disclosures and seek the advice of your own investment advisor. Nothing in this LinkedIn page message represents an offer to buy or sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell, any security.

Industry: Financial Services
Company Size: 51-200 employees

Hiive

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Hiive is redefining how private companies and their shareholders access liquidity. Through its institutional-grade platform, Hiive brings together buyers, sellers, and issuers to facilitate secondary transactions in venture-backed, pre-IPO companies, introducing efficiency, transparency, and standardization to an otherwise opaque asset class.

Recognized as one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies and backed by leading U.S. investors, Hiive is profitable, well-capitalized, and building a high-performance team to meet growing demand and pursue new market opportunities.

Interested in learning more about life at Hiive? Check out our careers page to see how you can grow with us!

We are seeking a **Director of Product Design ** to own the user experience and interface design of the platform by recruiting and leading a team of in-house product designers. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in shaping the user experience and driving innovation. This is a unique opportunity to create design excellence at a high-growth startup and deliver experiences that make a meaningful impact on our customers and business.

**In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Include**

- Defining and championing the product design vision, ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs.

- Managing the use and enhancement of a cohesive, scalable design system process, ensuring consistency across products and platforms, maximizing re-use and development velocity.

- Mentoring, guiding, and inspiring a team of product designers, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

- Working with other members of product leadership to design processes that integrate product management, design, and engineering as part of the SDLC.

- Facilitating workshops and design reviews with stakeholders, driving alignment across teams and departments.

- Leading the creation of intuitive, visually compelling, and functional designs for web and mobile platforms.

- Ensuring all designs meet accessibility, responsiveness, and scalability standards.

- Staying up-to-date on industry trends, tools, and best practices, incorporating new insights into the design process.

- Advocating for user-centered design and the value of design as a key driver of business success.

**Required Qualifications**

- 10+ years of experience in product design, with a strong portfolio demonstrating innovative and impactful design solutions.

- Proven leadership experience managing and mentoring design teams.

- Expert level in working with an in-house created design system that was executed consistently across design files and code bases.

- History of designing scalable user research and usability processes.

- Considerable experience working with Figma.

- Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate design decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience in SaaS, B2B, or marketplace product environments.

- Proficiency in working with data and product analytics tools to deliver design insights.

- Proficiency in UX writing and content strategy.

**Compensation, Benefits & Perks**

- Highly competitive salary commensurate with experience and contribution.

- Opportunity to participate in ownership of a rapidly growing company through our employee stock option plan.

- Comprehensive 100% employer-paid health and dental premiums, a health and personal spending account.

- If you are based in Vancouver, enjoy a dedicated desk in our Vancouver, BC HQ, in the heart of downtown, with a fridge stocked with healthy snacks and drinks, an onsite gym, and a gorgeous rooftop amenity.

- Enjoy a $20-per-day commuter benefit for every day you work in our Vancouver HQ.

- An engaging social calendar, including bi-weekly catered lunches, bi-weekly “Friday bar,” team workouts, annual summer party, and holiday party, two “onsite” all-team retreats each year, semi-annual team-building events, and Hiive Women’s Network events.

- Significant opportunities for growth into team leadership and management roles.

- Entrepreneurial culture and a small and dynamic team.

- Sponsorship, immigration, and relocation for exceptional candidates.

Hiive is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed.

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As part of our recruitment and hiring process, Hiive may use automated tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to assist in screening applications, evaluating candidate qualifications, and supporting interview processes. These tools are designed to support and inform human decision-making and are not used as the sole basis for any employment decision.

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For accommodation requests or questions about this notice, contact careers@hiive.com.

Director of Product Design

As the MCP runtime, Arcade is the only one able to deliver secure agent authorization, high-accuracy tools, and centralized governance. Deploy multi-user AI agents that take actions across any system with granular permissions and complete visibility—no complex infrastructure required. Ship faster and scale with control.

Industry: Software Development
Company Size: 11-50 employees

Arcade.dev

Everyone's talking about AI. But here's the truth: ChatGPT can't send your emails. It can't book your flights. It can't even order you lunch.

Why? Because AI is trapped in a chat box. It can't take real actions in the real world.

We are changing that forever. We're not just building another AI company; we're creating the infrastructure that will power every AI application you'll use in the future.

**The Revolution Needs You**

Every AI app needs agentic "tools" - special functions that let AI models take real actions. Without tools, AI can only chat. With tools, AI can actually do things. We're building the actions runtime that allows AI agents to safely take real-world actions at enterprise scale.

As Arcade's first designer, you'll build the UX/UI function from scratch. You start with the Dashboard — the surface where customers decide whether to trust their agents with real systems. From there, you shape whatever comes next: MCP Apps, and the surfaces nobody has named yet.

**Why This Is The Opportunity of a Lifetime**

- Founder-Market Fit : Our CEO previously founded Stormpath (acquired by Okta), where he created the first Authentication API for developers. He's done this before, and this time the market is 10x bigger. Our CTO led the vector database team at Redis, shipped 100+ LLM applications, and is a contributor to LangChain and LlamaIndex. He knows this space better than anyone.

- Dream Team : We've assembled authentication, integrations, distributed systems, and AI experts from Okta, Redis, Microsoft, Splunk, ngrok, Google, Airbyte, Disney, and HPE who've built and founded multiple successful developer platforms.

- Perfect Timing : We're at the inflection point of AI adoption. The biggest problem isn't better models, it's connecting AI to real-world actions. That's us.

- Massive Market : We're building critical infrastructure for the biggest technological shift of our generation. Every AI app will need what we're building.

- Backed By The Best: Our investors have backed Databricks, Clickhouse, MongoDB, Perplexity, Cohere, ScaleAI, Confluent, Elastic, and Firebase. They see what we see — this is going to be huge.

**The Challenge**

Product Design's charter at Arcade is simple and hard: every surface where customers meet Arcade is a trust surface. For most of our customers — the AI/ML architects deploying Arcade inside their companies — the Dashboard is the only place they see us today, which is why it's where you start. Every fear they have about giving agents access to real systems either gets settled or amplified here. The work of design is to make sure it's the former.

This is a new design space. Agents are non-deterministic. Tools fire in patterns customers didn't predict. Auth scopes nest in ways that aren't obvious. The Dashboard has to make all of that legible — for an admin granting an agent permission, an engineer debugging a failed tool call at 11pm, a compliance reviewer asking "what did the agent actually do?" Three different mental models, one product surface.

There is no playbook for this. Nobody has shipped a definitive answer for how to design an admin UI for agents — the conventions we adopt will likely become the ones other companies copy. Some of your work is design. Some is teaching, explaining concepts customers haven't fully internalized yet, inside the product itself. If you'd rather inherit a design language than help invent one, this isn't the right role.

And you're not just designing — you're building a function. There's no design team yet. There's no design language you inherit (engineering has stood up Radix and Tailwind patterns, but those are a starting point, not a system). You'll define how design works with engineering, how it works with the PM, and how it shows up in Marketing. Every pattern you set becomes the one the next designer inherits.

This role reports to the Engineering Manager for Tools and Growth. The team is small, and you'll work across the entire company — shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering on the Dashboard, with the PM on Tools and Growth on what surfaces matter most, and with Marketing on how design decisions show up beyond the product. Your decisions land in customers' hands within weeks, not quarters. If you want to do the design work nobody has done yet — and watch customers learn from it — this is the role.

**What You'll Do**

- Own the design of major Dashboard surfaces end-to-end — flow, interaction, visual — from first sketch to shipped pixels.

- Run customer research with the AI/ML architects deploying Arcade. Interview them. Watch them use prototypes. Bring the signal back to the team.

- Pair daily with engineering. Hand off in Figma, watch implementation in our React + Tailwind codebase, and iterate when production reveals something the mock didn't.

- Shape the design system alongside engineering. We use Radix and Tailwind today; what we ship next either reuses, extends, or replaces those patterns deliberately.

- Make agent state legible — tool execution, auth scopes, observability, billing. All of it has to feel obvious in the moment a customer needs the answer.

- Write the design rationale. Explain decisions so engineers, the PM, and Marketing can build on them — and so customers learn the model from the product itself.

- Set the bar for design quality as Arcade grows. Your patterns get inherited by every designer after you.

**Required Skills**

- 3–5 years of product design experience, with at least one role focused on a developer-facing or B2B SaaS product. Formal title matters less than the work.

- A portfolio that shows end-to-end product work — research → flows → interaction → visual → shipped pixels, not just static screens.

- Strong fluency in Figma. Fast, organized, components and tokens you'd actually want to inherit.

- Comfort with technical product spaces. You can read enough about APIs, auth, and agent behavior to design for them — and you ask the right questions when you can't.

- Demonstrated ability to run customer research without a dedicated researcher. You've talked to real users, synthesized what you heard, and changed the design because of it.

- Strong partnership with engineering. You've shipped real product alongside engineers and made the work better for it.

- Opinions on design systems — not just visual consistency, but how tokens, components, and patterns hold up as a team scales.

- Comfort with ambiguity — early team, narrow charter that will expand. You make good decisions with incomplete data.

- An insatiable desire to ship.

**Bonus Points**

- You've designed for AI, ML, or agent products before — and have opinions about what makes them work.

- Prior experience at a developer-tools, API-platform, or infrastructure company (Stripe, Vercel, Supabase, Auth0, Postman, Linear, and the like).

- You've shipped or substantially contributed to a design system that survived contact with multiple engineers.

- Comfort designing for engineers as your primary user — you understand what makes an admin UI feel right to someone who'd rather be in their terminal.

- Prototyping in code, even at a basic level. A designer who can read React and prototype interactions in the actual codebase moves faster than one who can't.

**Join The Movement**

We're not just building a product; we're leading a movement to transform AI from just chatbots to agents that can take actions against real systems. This is your chance to be at the forefront of that revolution.

If you want to look back in 5 years and say, "I helped build that", then we want to talk to you. Ready to make AI actually useful? Apply Now

**Compensation And Benefits**

This role offers a competitive salary, equity, and benefits. Compensation is aligned with the range below and determined based on a candidate's background, experience, and performance.

**Salary Range**

$127,000-$172,000 USD

**Notes**

- This is an in-person role located in our San Francisco (SOMA) office.

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