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# Founding Product Designer at Slash Financial

- **Company:** Slash Financial
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/slash-financial/a78db948-7be0-40aa-8e71-975b75c16774

## Job description

## About Slash

Slash is building the future of business banking, one industry at a time. We believe businesses deserve financial infrastructure tailored to how they actually operate. That's why we're creating a new category of business banking. We combine the reliability of traditional banking (high yields, competitive rewards, and comprehensive security) with industry-specific features that make businesses more efficient, more competitive, and more profitable. Started in 2021, Slash is one of the fastest growing fintechs in the world and we power over ten billion dollars a year in business purchasing across numerous industries. We recently raised a $100M Series C led by Ribbit Capital with participation from Khosla Ventures, Goodwater Capital, NEA, and Y Combinator, accelerating our expansion into new markets and products. Slash is headquartered in San Francisco, and has a strong in-person culture.

## About the role

Slash is hiring its Founding Product Designer. This is the first dedicated design hire at the company, and you'll set the visual and product language for everything we build, from the core banking product to the marketing site to how we show up on socials. This role is broader than product design. We need someone who can take a complex financial workflow and make it simple in Figma, and who also has the creative range to art direct a launch, illustrate an idea, or design something with enough craft that it makes Slash look and feel like a company operating at a different level than other fintechs. You'll work directly with our founders and engineering team, with no layers between you and the decisions that matter. What you design ships.

## What you'll do

- Own product design end to end. Take problems from our founders, PMs, and engineers and carry them from the first sketch through the shipped product.
- Set the design system. Establish the visual and interaction language for the core product now, while building the system and documentation that will let a future design team scale it consistently.
- Direct Slash's visual identity. Take ownership of brand, marketing site design, decks, event graphics, and social content. This is hands-on work: illustration, layout, and original creative, not just applying an existing brand kit.
- Work in-line with engineering. Pair directly with engineers to prototype ideas quickly, test them, and get real product in front of customers rather than polishing specs that sit in Figma.
- Use AI as part of your process. Use tools like Claude and Cursor to clarify problems, explore directions, and prototype flows before they reach high-fidelity design.
- Talk to customers directly. Validate design decisions against how customers actually use Slash, not assumptions about how they should.
- Build the function you're joining. Set the tools, process, and quality bar that will define how design operates at Slash as the team grows, including a hand in hiring the designers who join after you.

## What you need

- Strong product design fundamentals. Interaction design, systems thinking, and the judgment to simplify a genuinely complex financial product without dumbing it down.
- Real creative range beyond UI. Graphic design, illustration, art direction, or a similar creative background. Your portfolio needs to demonstrate this directly, not just claim it.
- A track record of ownership. You can point to specific projects you carried from an ambiguous problem through a shipped, successful outcome, not just execution against a defined spec.
- Comfort operating without a playbook. This role requires building the process alongside the product. You should be someone who is energized by that, not someone who needs it handed to you.
- Active use of AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor as part of how you already work.
- Experience at a fast-growing startup, ideally in a founding or early design role. This is a strong plus, not a requirement, but we're looking for someone who has operated at this level of ambiguity and speed before.
- Based in San Francisco. Slash has a strong in-person culture and this role is expected in our office.

## What's in it for you

- Ground-floor equity and the chance to define design at a company scaling fast
- High autonomy and ownership culture
- Comprehensive health and benefits plan
- Working out of our downtown San Francisco office space
- Unlimited PTO

## About Slash Financial

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Slash provides a modern, all-in-one business banking, corporate cards, and treasury platform, reimagining financial services for specific industries.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Victor Cardenas (CEO) and Kevin Bai (CRO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Financial Technology (Fintech), Business Banking, Payments
- Target customers: B2B, targeting businesses of all sizes from startups to enterprises (Silver/Gold/Black tiers based on payment volume)
- Mission or purpose statement: To build a higher standard in business finance by moving beyond one-size-fits-all banking, combining the reliability of traditional banking with industry-specific features to make businesses more efficient, competitive, and profitable.

## Products & Services
- **Business Banking**: High-yield FDIC-insured accounts with enhanced coverage up to hundreds of millions, multi-entity management, and granular user controls.
- **Corporate Cards**: Unlimited virtual and physical cards with cashback rewards, advanced spend controls, and multi-step payment approvals. Cards are issued by Column N.A., under a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc.
- **Treasury & Cash Management**: Tools for managing company funds, including high-yield accounts and automated top-ups.
- **Slash API**: Developer-friendly APIs for read and write access, enabling automation of payments, stablecoin on/off ramps, and multi-entity financial management.
- **Crypto & Stablecoin Services**: Seamless conversion between fiat and crypto within the app, including stablecoin on and off ramps.
- **Global Payments & Reconciliation**: Support for domestic and international wire transfers, same-day ACH, and real-time payments (FedNow/RTP) with reporting and reconciliation tools.
- **Working Capital**: Flexible credit options for businesses to fuel growth.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1.4 billion (as of Series C in April 2026).
- **Key Metric** (Total Funding): Over $160 million raised.
- **Key Metric** (Volume): Over $30 billion in yearly payment volume, $35 billion+ in virtual cards issued, and 5 million+ cards issued.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (S21 batch), NEA, Goodwater Capital, Stanford University, and federally regulated bank partner Column N.A. (Member FDIC).
- **Growth Signals**: Raised a $100M Series C in April 2026, reaching a $1.4B valuation. In 2024, the company surpassed $1B in annualized volume, launched multiple new products (Corporate Cards, API, Global Payments, Real-Time Payments), and secured a $41.6M Series B. By 2025, annualized volume hit $3B. The company serves over 6,000 businesses.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Industry-Specific Approach**: Unlike one-size-fits-all competitors (like Ramp or Brex), Slash deeply studies workflows across verticals to tailor its banking platform, giving it a strong moat in specific industries.
- **Unified Platform**: Combines banking, cards, treasury, crypto, and API access on a single platform, simplifying financial operations for businesses.
- **Founding Team & Backing**: Founded by teenagers and backed by top-tier investors (Y Combinator, NEA, Goodwater), signaling strong execution and market confidence.
- **Security & Compliance**: SOC2 Type II and PCI compliant, with enhanced FDIC insurance through a network of 800+ banks and partnerships with federally regulated banks.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepening Industry Verticals**: Continuing to build industry-specific features and partnerships (e.g., with accounting firms and healthcare) to capture more market share.
- **Product Expansion**: Scaling its API, global payments, stablecoin infrastructure, and working capital products to become the primary financial operating system for businesses.
- **Scaling Customer Base**: Moving upmarket (Black tier for $100M+ volume) while serving SMBs, aiming to displace traditional banks and legacy fintechs.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as "100% hardcore in-person culture" with a strong emphasis on collaboration, hard work, and ambition. The company believes innovation thrives in a dynamic, in-office environment.
- **Work Policy**: In-person, based in San Francisco. The company fosters a strong, dedicated team environment.
- **Perks**: Competitive salary with equity, comprehensive health/vision/dental benefits, free lunch every day, free dinner if you stay past 9 PM, and a MacBook Pro.
- **Engineering Culture**: Focused on building a new category of business banking. Roles include Applied AI Engineer, Software Engineer (Stablecoin, Growth, Product), and Senior Infrastructure/Platform Engineer, indicating a high-value on modern tech stacks and AI.
- **Growth Opportunity**: As a fast-growing, well-funded startup (recently hitting unicorn status), employees have the chance to work on transformative problems and grow with the company.

## Sources
1. [slash.com - Homepage](https://www.slash.com/)
2. [slash.com - About Page](https://www.slash.com/company/about)
3. [slash.com - Careers Page](https://www.slash.com/company/careers)
4. [Y Combinator - Slash Profile](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/slash)
5. [TechCrunch - Series C Announcement](https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/slash-a-ramp-competitor-founded-by-teenagers-raises-100m-at-1-4b-valuation/)

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