Product Design Lead

About Phantom

Phantom combines industry-leading security with thoughtfully designed tools to make powerful financial tools feel approachable and easy to use. With a community of 20M+ people, the product has reached #1 in the Google Play Store finance category and consistently ranks as a Top 50 app across all categories.

Role Description

Responsibilities

• Establish a vision for how agentic trading, commerce, and autonomous wallet interactions emerge within Phantom, including how agents connect to wallets via protocols like MCP
• Partner closely with engineering to understand technical constraints and possibilities of wallet infrastructure and agent frameworks, ensuring design decisions are grounded in what's buildable
• Take complex technical concepts like transaction signing, agent delegation, and on-chain permissions and turn them into intuitive experiences across desktop and mobile
• Lead design for a product team from conception to launch in partnership with product managers, engineers, marketing, support, and executive leadership
• Define new product flows and incorporate them into the design system
• Contribute to strategic decisions around the future direction of Phantom, crypto wallets, and web3
• Proactively raise the bar for quality by making crypto UX more approachable for everyday people
• Design end-to-end flows and experiences that are simple and elegant

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building and shipping applications and software to users, with a strong emphasis on mobile-first consumer products
• Actively experimenting at the intersection of crypto and AI with a point of view on agentic wallets, AI-assisted transactions, or standards like MCP, backed by prototypes or side projects
• Experience designing for developer products, platforms, or the emerging agentic ecosystem
• Understanding of crypto ecosystems, with a crypto-native perspective, whether through professional experience, personal projects, or active participation in the web3 community
• Proven ability to present work to broader product teams and leadership, clearly articulating design goals, rationale, and user impact
• Strong visual design skills, with proficiency in desktop and mobile UI, color systems, layout, and iconography
• Advanced interaction design expertise and the ability to define intuitive behavior based on user needs and communicate ideas clearly through high-fidelity prototypes
• Experience leading product direction and applying strategic thinking to define product goals, uncover user opportunities, and make informed design decisions
• Background in defining and contributing to design systems and reusable components that elevate the quality and consistency of the overall design practice