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.