design
Posted 2 hours agoLead Product Designer
at Stellar3
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
Figma$50,000
Responsibilities
- - Maintain and scale our design system to ensure consistency and speed across products.
- - Conduct user research and usability testing to validate decisions, and champion user-centered design across the organization.
Requirements
- Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system? Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high-scale today.
- - Leverage AI design and prototyping tools to increase the team’s leverage and the quality and velocity of what you ship.
- experience with a strong portfolio of shipped, end-to-end work. - Exceptional visual and interaction design skills and a critical eye for detail. -
- Experience managing or mentoring other designers (formal management a plus). - Demonstrated use of AI tools to accelerate and elevate design work. - Expert knowledge of modern design tools (Figma, Framer, etc.) and
- experience building and scaling design systems. - Strong communication; you can present, influence, and align stakeholders at all levels. - A strong understanding of user-centered design, with
- experience in research and usability testing.
Experience
- You have: - 7+ years of product design
Benefits
- You will set the design vision, uphold an exceptional standard of craft, and you are excited to leverage AI tools to multiply what a small design team can deliver — moving faster from concept to high-fidelity, shippable design. In this role,
- - Within 90 days: own the design vision for key product areas, establish how the team works (including AI-assisted workflows), and support the growth of the designer you manage.
- - Set and champion a clear product design vision aligned with company goals and brand values.
- Bonus Points if: - On-chain / crypto / fintech design experience. - You have built or scaled a design team. - You prototype with code or AI tools (Framer, v0, and similar). - Founder or 0→1 experience.
- We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $170,000 - $235,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
- In addition, we offer lumen-denominated grants along with the following perks and
- benefits: USA Benefits/Perks: - Competitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee + any dependents - Flexible time off + 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break - Generous paid parental leave for all parents, plus paid pregnancy disability leave for birthing parents - Gym reimbursement ($80 per month) - Life & ADD (up to $50K) - Short & Long term disability - 401K with 4% match - Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts - Commuter
- benefits with $250/month employer contribution - Health Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution - Family building
Additional details
- Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem.
- We are looking for a Lead Product Designer to lead design across SDF’s products and to raise the bar on craft for the whole team.
- This is a player-coach role: you will manage and mentor another designer while remaining a world-class individual contributor on our most important and visible work.
- you will: - In your first 30 days: ramp on our products, design system, and roadmap; partner with PMs and engineers; and start contributing directly to active design work.
- - Lead by example as our most senior designer — contributing directly to our most important projects with exceptional visual and interaction craft.
- - Manage, mentor, and grow another product designer; provide thoughtful feedback and career development.
- - Partner closely with Product and Engineering to ship pixel-perfect, user-centered experiences.