--- title: 'Staff Product Designer at F2' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-product-designer-f2-san-francisco-q7r7m4fnjz3k' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Staff Product Designer at F2 - **Company:** F2 - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Compensation:** $220k–$250k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-09-04 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/f2-ai/311f34e9-0461-435e-88a3-28bfd3eba236 ## Job description ## About F2 F2 is the AI platform for private markets investors — purpose-built to transform how institutional teams underwrite, diligence, and deploy capital. Our AI converts messy, unstructured deal materials into investment-grade insights in minutes, helping private credit funds, commercial banks, and private equity firms make faster, more confident decisions. Backed by leading investors, including NFX and Y Combinator, we’re scaling a world-class product and engineering team to build the future of vertical AI for finance. ## Role Overview We’re hiring a Staff Product Designer to craft intuitive, elegant, and impactful user experiences across F2’s platform. You’ll partner with Product, Engineering, and Customer teams to define workflows, refine interaction patterns, and elevate the design language for a complex B2B AI product. As an early designer at F2, you’ll influence the product’s vision and have a direct impact on how investment professionals interact with cutting-edge AI capabilities. ## What You’ll Do - Lead end-to-end design across new and existing features — from user research and ideation through prototyping, interaction design, and final UI. - Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to translate product strategy into intuitive experiences. - Define and maintain design systems and visual standards to ensure consistency and scalability. - Balance business goals with user needs, prioritizing work that drives adoption, engagement, and product delight. You Might Be a Great Fit If - You have 5+ years of experience in product design, UX/UI, or related roles, ideally with SaaS products and/or AI-driven tools. - You have a strong portfolio that demonstrates design thinking, problem solving, and polished visual execution across complex workflows. - You’re comfortable leading design efforts in ambiguity, iterating quickly, and shipping with high quality. - You excel at cross-functional collaboration and communicate clearly with product, engineering, and business stakeholders. - You’re curious about how AI reshapes user interaction and excited to design experiences where human judgment and machine intelligence converge. ## Preferred Qualifications - Experience designing for data-intensive enterprise products or B2B platforms. - Background in UX research, usability testing, and incorporating user feedback into measurable product improvements. Why F2? - Join a fast-growing AI startup reshaping workflows in private markets and finance. - Be part of a small, high-impact team where your design decisions influence product strategy. - Competitive compensation with equity upside and benefits. - Collaborative, mission-driven culture that values craftsmanship, curiosity, and rapid iteration. ## About F2 ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: F2 is an AI platform purpose-built for private markets investors — it helps private credit, private equity, and commercial banking teams screen, diligence, underwrite, and monitor deals faster and with greater institutional knowledge. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $10.1M total) - **Headquarters**: New York, NY, United States - **Founded**: 2025 - **Founders**: Don Muir (Co-Founder & CEO), Emre Kazdagli (Co-Founder & CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Financial technology (Fintech), AI for private markets (private credit, private equity, commercial banking) - **Target customers**: Investment firms, asset managers, commercial banks – B2B Enterprise - **Mission or purpose**: “Turn every transaction into a proprietary advantage that makes the firm smarter over time” – compounding intelligence for private markets. ## Products & Services - **F2 Platform (Institutional Knowledge)**: A unified SaaS platform that ingests a firm’s historical IC memos, financial models, CIMs, and CRM data into a queryable “living library.” Teams can pull precedents, surface past risks, and underwrite with the pattern recognition of the most experienced deal leads. Includes: - **Screening & Diligence**: Context-aware search across all past deals and market data. - **Underwriting (Excel-Native Engine)**: A real Excel engine underneath the AI that outputs live Excel files with formulas, cell references, and dependency tracking. No black boxes. - **Audit Mode**: Click any number to see the formula and trace it back to its source cell. - **Portfolio Monitoring**: Covenant performance, exposure testing, and fund-level reporting. - **Additional Features**: Downside risk & covenant analysis, sponsor & stakeholder analysis, cash flow & coverage metrics, precedent comp tables. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$10.125M** (Seed rounds in 2025; includes a $10M round led by NFX, Left Lane Capital, and Y Combinator) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: NFX, Left Lane Capital, Y Combinator - **Growth Signals**: - Over **15,000 deals** underwritten annually on F2 across firms managing more than **$400B in client assets**. - #1 on **SpreadsheetBench**, the industry standard benchmark for spreadsheet AI. - SOC 2 Type 1 & Type 2 certified, GDPR compliant. - Team grew to ~20 employees within first year (monthly headcount growth +4.3% as of mid-2026). - Active hiring for multiple roles (10 open positions as of July 2026). ## Competitive Advantages - **Excel-Native AI**: Unlike general-purpose AI, F2 runs a real Excel engine – outputs are genuine .xlsx files with live formulas, dependency tracking, and transparent audit trails. - **Institutional Knowledge Compounding**: Every deal that passes or closes automatically flows back into the library, so the platform gets smarter with each transaction. - **Enterprise Security & Trust**: Zero data retention, no model training on customer data, SOC 2 Type II, role-based access, GDPR compliant. - **Specialized for Private Markets**: Built specifically for the workflows of private credit and private equity, not a horizontal AI tool. ## Strategic Focus - Scale adoption among institutional investors (private credit, commercial banking, PE). - Deepen the platform’s institutional knowledge capabilities and grow the dataset from customer deals. - Continue to invest in financial accuracy and spreadsheet-native AI (maintain #1 position on SpreadsheetBench). - Expand the team across engineering, sales, and client success. ## Why Work Here - **Early-stage impact**: As a YC S25 company with 15–20 employees, new hires will have significant ownership and influence on product and culture. - **Hybrid / Remote**: The company is headquartered in New York City with a hybrid model; many roles are listed as hybrid or remote (some fully remote). Employees work remotely across the U.S. - **Culture highlights**: Fast-paced, mission-driven environment focused on solving a real pain point in finance. “Force multiplier” ethos – giving analysts the pattern recognition of experienced managing directors. - **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on architectural rigor (real Excel engine, AI accuracy), with roles for senior software engineers (frontend, infrastructure) and AI deployment strategists. - **Perks**: Not explicitly detailed, but typical YC-backed startup benefits likely include equity, flexible PTO, and a strong focus on professional growth. ## Sources 1. [f2.ai](https://f2.ai/) 2. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/f2) 3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/f2aihq) 4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/f2) 5. 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