Staff Product Designer, DeFi

Accountabilities:

• • Set the design vision, principles, and priorities in partnership with product, engineering, and business leadership, helping shape product strategy and long-term experience direction.
  • Own the end-to-end user experience across spot trading, margin, prediction products, liquidity workflows, and related first-party applications.
  • Lead the design of critical journeys including onboarding, funding, market discovery, order entry, transaction review and signing, portfolio and position management, collateral, liquidation risk, settlement, and recovery from failed states.
  • Design coherent experiences for distinct audiences, including retail traders, experienced DeFi users, market makers, liquidity providers, institutions, and developers, without creating fragmented product experiences.
  • Remain hands-on in high-priority initiatives by framing problems, developing concepts, prototyping, testing, and reviewing implementation quality.
  • Build scalable design systems and shared interaction patterns for dense financial data, charts, tables, order entry, account states, alerts, and risk communication.
  • Establish a practical research program using user interviews, usability studies, product analytics, support feedback, and market observation to guide design decisions.
  • Partner with engineering to understand protocol behavior, transaction states, latency, data dependencies, security boundaries, and technical platform constraints.
  • Collaborate with legal, security, marketing, business development, and ecosystem teams to launch products responsibly and communicate financial concepts accurately.
  • Define design and product quality measures and connect design outcomes to activation, conversion, trading success, retention, support burden, and user trust.
  • Lead, hire, and develop designers while establishing operating practices that enable the team to support a growing and increasingly complex product surface.

  Requirements:

  • 10+ years of product design experience, including meaningful experience leading, hiring, and developing designers within a fast-moving product organization.
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional individual design craft as well as leadership impact across complex, data-dense products.
  • Experience designing trading, investing, fintech, payments, crypto, marketplace, or other high-stakes products where users make consequential financial or business decisions.
  • Strong fluency in DeFi and direct experience using onchain products, with the ability to discuss swaps, order books, liquidity, routing, slippage, collateral, leverage, liquidation, settlement, smart-contract risk, and transaction signing.
  • Strong product judgment and a demonstrated ability to influence strategy, prioritization, and product decisions in partnership with product and engineering teams.
  • Expertise across interaction design, information architecture, visual design, prototyping, user research, and systems thinking.
  • Experience creating design systems and operating practices that improve consistency, scalability, and delivery across multiple products.
  • Comfort working through ambiguity and making progress while product, technical, market, and legal requirements continue to evolve.
  • Experience leading design for an exchange, order book, derivatives or margin product, prediction market, wallet, aggregator, or institutional trading platform is a plus.
  • Experience designing both retail and professional trading experiences, including charts, market data, portfolio analytics, and execution workflows, is desirable.
  • Familiarity with Sui, Move, programmable transaction blocks, DeepBook, Slush, or object-based blockchain architectures is a plus.
  • Experience designing products in legally complex or regulated financial categories is beneficial.
  • Prior experience as a founder, design executive, principal designer, trader, DeFi power user, or ecosystem operator is also valued.
  • Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check, which may include verification of employment history, education credentials, criminal history, and other relevant information.

  Benefits:

  • Remote-first work environment with hiring across the world.
  • Opportunity to work on decentralized finance products spanning trading, liquidity, prediction markets, and onchain financial workflows.
  • High-impact staff-level design leadership role with significant influence over product strategy, design direction, and team development.
  • Opportunity to work closely with product, engineering, legal, security, business development, marketing, and ecosystem teams.
  • Ability to remain hands-on with critical product experiences while building and developing a growing design organization.