Staff Product Designer (DeFi)

Quick Facts

Staff Product Designer role focused on DeFi, owning the experience strategy and end-to-end journeys for DeepBook’s financial stack and first-party applications.

Description

You will set the design vision and principles for spot trading, margin, prediction markets, liquidity, and the workflows that connect users and builders to onchain finance. The role requires strong product judgment to make complex financial systems clear, while designing for retail and professional audiences under technical and regulatory constraints.

Responsibilities

• Set design vision, principles, and priorities with product, engineering, and business leadership.
• Own end-to-end experience across DeepBook spot, margin, prediction products, liquidity workflows, and related first-party applications.
• Lead core journeys: onboarding, funding, market discovery, order entry, transaction review and signing, portfolio/position management, collateral, liquidation risk, settlement, and recovery from failed states.
• Design for distinct audiences (retail traders, experienced DeFi users, market makers, liquidity providers, institutions, developers) without fragmenting the product experience.
• Stay hands-on in highest-priority work: framing problems, developing concepts, prototyping, testing, and reviewing 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.
• Run 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.
• Work with legal, security, marketing, business development, and ecosystem teams to launch responsibly and communicate financial concepts accurately.
• Define design and product quality measures and connect design work to activation, conversion, trading success, retention, support burden, and user trust.

Requirements

• 10+ years of product design experience, including meaningful experience leading, hiring, and developing designers.
• Portfolio showing exceptional craft and leadership impact across complex, data-dense products.
• Experience designing trading, investing, fintech, payments, crypto, marketplaces, or other high-stakes products with consequential user decisions.
• Fluency in DeFi with direct experience using onchain products; able to discuss swaps, order books, liquidity, routing, slippage, collateral, leverage, liquidation, settlement, smart-contract risk, and transaction signing.
• Strong product judgment and a record of shaping strategy, prioritization, and decisions with product and engineering partners.
• Skills in interaction design, information architecture, visual design, prototyping, research, and systems thinking.
• Experience building design systems and operating practices that improve consistency and delivery across multiple products.
• Comfort with ambiguity and delivering progress while product, technical, market, and legal inputs evolve.
• Background check successful completion (may include verification of employment history, education credentials, criminal history, and other relevant information).

Benefits

• Remote-first team with hiring across the world.
• Compensation range: $150K–$225K.