Staff Product Designer, DeFi

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Product Designer, DeFi based in United States.

This is a senior design leadership role shaping the experience strategy for a growing decentralized finance product ecosystem.
You will own end-to-end experiences across spot trading, margin, prediction markets, liquidity, and related financial workflows.
The role combines exceptional product design craft with strong product judgment and deep fluency in financial markets and DeFi.
You will partner closely with product and engineering from strategy through launch while remaining hands-on with the most critical product flows.
You will help build and lead a design team capable of supporting an expanding product surface and diverse user base.
The work spans retail traders, professional users, market makers, liquidity providers, institutions, and developers.
Success means making complex financial systems understandable while preserving the information users need to assess risk, execute effectively, and build trust.

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 interactio