Staff Product Designer, DeFi

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📋 Description

• Set the design vision, principles, and priorities with product, engineering, and business leadership
• Own the end-to-end experience across DeepBook spot, margin, prediction products, liquidity workflows, and related first-party applications
• Lead core journeys including onboarding, funding, market discovery, order entry, transaction review and signing, portfolio and position management, collateral, liquidation risk, settlement, and failed-state recovery
• Design experiences for retail traders, experienced DeFi users, market makers, liquidity providers, institutions, and developers
• Frame problems, develop concepts, prototype, test, and review implementation quality
• Build a scalable design system and shared interaction patterns for dense financial data, charts, tables, order entry, account states, alerts, and risk communication
• Establish a research program using interviews, usability studies, product analytics, support feedback, and market observation
• Partner with engineering on protocol behavior, transaction states, latency, data dependencies, security boundaries, and 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 connected to activation, conversion, trading success, retention, support burden, and user trust
• Build and develop a design team covering a growing product surface

🎯 Requirements

• 10 or more years of product design experience
• Meaningful experience leading, hiring, and developing designers in a fast-moving product organization
• Portfolio demonstrating exceptional individual craft and leadership impact across complex, data-dense products
• Experience designing trading, investing, fintech, payments, crypto, marketplace, or other high-stakes products
• Fluency in DeFi and direct experience using onchain products
• Ability to discuss swaps, order books, liquidity, routing, slippage, collateral, leverage, liquidation, settlement, smart-contract risk, and transaction signing
• Strong product judgment and experience shaping strategy, prioritization, and product decisions with product and engineering partners
• Skill in interaction design, information architecture, visual design, prototyping, research, and systems thinking
• Experience building design systems and operating practices across multiple products
• Comfort working through ambiguity and changing product, technical, market, and legal inputs
• Employment contingent upon successful completion of a background check, potentially including employment history, education credentials, and criminal history verification

🏖️ Benefits

• Tokens and equity compensation
• Eligibility to participate in annual equity and token refresh grant programs
• Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents
• Tax Savings Benefits including HSAs and FSAs
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave
• Wellbeing programs, including family planning support, gender affirming care, hormone replacement therapy, and physical fitness/nutrition apps
• Mental health support and counseling
• Employee Assistance Program for financial/legal assistance and home life referrals
• Short Term and Long Term Disability coverage
• Life Insurance and Accident Insurance
• Traveler Insurance
• 401(k)
• Complimentary privacy protection service
• Wellness stipend
• Flexible paid time off
• 11 paid holidays per year
• Team offsites and annual all-company retreat

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