Staff Product Designer, DeFi
Core
Senior design leadership role shaping end-to-end experience strategy for a decentralized finance product ecosystem, covering spot trading, margin, prediction markets, and liquidity workflows.
Role type
Staff Product Designer (DeFi)
Builds
Decentralized finance applications for retail traders, professional users, market makers, liquidity providers, institutions, and developers.
Domain
Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Crypto, Financial Markets
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
Product design leadership, DeFi fluency, Trading/investing/fintech product experience, Interaction design, Information architecture, Visual design, Prototyping, User research, Systems thinking, Design systems creation, Strategic product judgment
Preferred skills
Exchange/order book/derivatives/margin/prediction market/wallet/aggregator/institutional platform design, Sui/Move/DeepBook/Slush/blockchain architecture knowledge, Regulated financial category design, Founder/executive/trader/power user/ecosystem operator experience
Technologies
Sui, Move, DeepBook, Slush, object-based blockchain architectures
Responsibilities
Set design vision and principles in partnership with product and engineering leadership; Own end-to-end UX for trading, margin, prediction, and liquidity workflows; Lead design of critical journeys including onboarding, funding, order entry, and risk management; Design coherent experiences for diverse audiences; Remain hands-on with high-priority initiatives; Build scalable design systems for dense financial data; Establish user research programs; Partner with engineering to understand protocol behavior and constraints; Collaborate with legal, security, and marketing teams; Define design quality measures; Lead, hire, and develop designers.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities