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# Principal Designer at Avantos AI

- **Company:** Avantos AI
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-06-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/avantos/cf0dd3be-2c4c-476e-a32a-58c4bfd1e913

## Job description

Company Overview Avantos AI is shaping the future of client relationship management by reimagining it through the lens of artificial intelligence. We are building the industry’s first AI-native operating system for financial services, transforming how firms onboard clients, deliver advice, and manage critical servicing workflows. Our platform consolidates fragmented data, automates complex processes, and embeds intelligent decision-making throughout every stage of the client lifecycle. Supported by Bessemer Ventures and MIT’s investment arm, our team comprises execution-focused, design-driven, product-centric founders and leaders from Wharton, MIT, top design programs, and unicorn SaaS companies. We move swiftly, tackle deep industry challenges, and build technology that empowers users to take charge of their workflows. If you thrive on client impact, innovative product design, and tackling complex problems, Avantos is the place for you.

## About the Role

Imagine owning the design system that defines what excellent looks like across an AI-native platform reshaping financial services, and setting the craft bar for the whole team through it. As Principal Designer, you'll own the Avantos design system end-to-end and lead design on our core product surface, the Agent Portal. This is a senior individual-contributor craft role, not a people-management one. You'll be the craft anchor: the person who decides what good is, builds the system that scales it, and raises the bar for every designer around you. Design here is moving fast. Our designers prototype in code and build their own AI tooling, and we re-evaluate how we work every few months as new capabilities land. That churn is deliberate, and for the person in this seat it is an invitation: you will help decide how design works at Avantos, not inherit a settled process. What we hold constant is what we value: judgment, taste, and a system that keeps quality high as the team and product scale. When anyone can generate a passable screen in minutes, those are the scarce things, and building them into how the team works is the heart of this role.

## Responsibilities

As a Principal Designer you will

- Own the Avantos design system end-to-end: component library, design tokens, pattern language, and the contribution rubric that keeps it coherent as the team grows
- Set craft direction across the design team through the system, so the bar lives in shared patterns and tenets rather than in one person's head
- Lead design on the Agent Portal, our most-trafficked surface and the place where the system ships first and gets pressure-tested in real product work
- Author and evolve our design tenets, partnering with the Head of Design to codify what design means at Avantos
- Develop the designers around you through critique, mentorship, and modeling rationale-driven thinking
- Represent design in cross-functional product and client conversations where senior craft judgment is needed

## Minimum Qualifications

- 8+ years of product design experience, with craft leadership that reaches beyond your own projects; you've moved the bar at a company, not just shipped strong individual work
- Deep expertise in product design fundamentals: interaction, information architecture, visual craft, and the systems thinking that turns a component library into a governing design system
- A track record of authoring design systems, tenets, or patterns that other designers adopted and built on
- Mastery of Figma and the judgment to evolve a design system as a living set of patterns, not a frozen kit
- Fluency prototyping in whatever medium fits the question, increasingly in code and with AI rather than only in a design tool
- A genuine curiosity, bordering on obsession, about how AI is changing the nature of design, software, and how teams work
- Comfort operating as a senior IC and craft anchor without needing a manager title; this role leads through craft and the system, not through reports
- Fluency in B2B SaaS or fintech complexity; financial services experience is welcome but not required

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience designing AI-native or agentic products, where design has to make probabilistic, non-deterministic output feel trustworthy and legible
- A track record of building your own tooling with AI to move faster or raise the bar
- Familiarity with thinkers like Bret Victor, Lou Downe, or Bob Baxley, and a point of view on how craft and systems intersect
- Experience as one of the first senior IC design hires at a Series A or B company

## What We Offer

- Competitive compensation + meaningful equity.
- The opportunity to shape the design foundation of a greenfield AI platform: the system, the craft bar, and how design works here
- A rare chance to bring service design thinking to scale, reshaping how advice and servicing are delivered across major financial institutions
- A culture built for craft, focus, deep work, and ownership, where design shapes the product rather than decorating someone else's spec

## About Avantos AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Avantos is the AI-native operating system for client management, powering how financial institutions onboard, service, and grow client relationships.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A – $25M led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with total funding of $44.2M)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Bassam Chaptini (Co-Founder & CEO) and Rabih Ramadi (Co-Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial services technology (Fintech) – client management software for banks, wealth managers, and other financial institutions.
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (financial institutions seeking to modernize onboarding, servicing, and relationship management).
- **Mission**: To build the operating system for the next generation of client management, unifying fragmented systems into a shared layer of context where AI agents turn data into continuous insight and execution.

## Products & Services
- **Avantos Platform**: AI-native operating system that integrates with existing CRMs, custodians, and core systems. It includes customizable workflows for onboarding and servicing, a knowledge graph that unifies client data, and AI agents that automate tasks such as data collection, document extraction, and follow-ups. Key modules: Onboarding, Servicing, Relationship Management, Upsell & Growth, Operations & Control.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $44.2M (Seed $19.2M in two rounds, Series A $25M in February 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Bessemer Venture Partners (Series A lead), E14 Fund (Seed lead), plus other institutional investors.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 171.4% year-over-year (LinkedIn reports 33 employees; Built In reports 38). Recent $35M Series A announcement. Trusted by leading financial institutions (e.g., SEI as a client partner). Active hiring across engineering, product, and client solutions roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Knowledge graph** that layers on top of existing systems, creating a single system of context for humans and AI.
- **AI-native agentic workflows** that reduce manual monitoring, handoffs, and decision latency.
- **Enterprise-grade security** – SOC2 certified, built for compliance and auditability from the ground up.
- **No-replacement integration** – works with existing CRMs and core systems, lowering switching costs for financial institutions.
- **Repeat fintech founders** with deep expertise in AI, financial services, and enterprise software.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand platform adoption across financial institutions, scaling AI capabilities for onboarding and ongoing client servicing.
- Continue to build out the engineering, product, and client solutions teams to support growth.
- Deepen integrations with custodians and core systems to become the standard operating layer for client management.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Massive influence” – employees directly shape client success and product roadmap. Strategic ownership of core enterprise clients. Work alongside founders, engineers, designers, and product leaders. Career acceleration into leadership roles.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: HQ in New York, NY (in-office for most roles). Some positions (e.g., Senior DevOps Engineer) are listed as fully remote. Hybrid options available for certain roles. Offices also in Novi Sad (Serbia), with team members in the UK and Brazil.
- **Notable perks**: Mission-driven impact redefining financial services through intelligent automation. Opportunity to work at the intersection of AI, enterprise software, and financial services. Competitive compensation and growth opportunities.

## Sources
1. [avantos.ai](https://avantos.ai/)
2. [avantos.ai/company](https://avantos.ai/company)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/avantos-ai)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/avantos-ai)
5. [avantos.breezy.hr](https://avantos.breezy.hr/)

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