Staff Product Designer

Responsibilities

• Lead design initiatives from concept through launch, collaborating closely with engineers and other designers to define and deliver high-quality user experiences.
• Channel design thinking into our product development process, ensuring we’re solving real user problems with consistency & simplicity.
• Hone open-ended product ideas into actionable design directions through research, prototyping, and iteration.
• Create end-to-end experiences balancing user needs, technical feasibility, and business goals.
• Contribute to and evolve our design system to raise quality, consistency, and efficiency across all OpenSea surfaces.
• Communicate design rationale clearly and effectively across disciplines, helping align teams around shared goals.
• Help shape the design culture at OpenSea by modeling strong craft, collaboration, and curiosity.

Desired Experience

• 7+ years of product design experience, across both consumer and platform-facing products.
• Demonstrated ability to own complex, ambiguous problem spaces and turn them into elegant, intuitive solutions.
• Strong product sense—comfortable thinking strategically and operating without the structure of a large product org.
• Excellent interaction and visual design skills, with a portfolio that highlights both systems thinking and attention to detail.
• Experience collaborating closely with engineers to ship high-quality, technically informed designs.
• Breadth across UI, UX, motion & interaction, with deep skills focussed in 1-2 areas and comfort dabbling in the others.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional partners.
• Experience working in emerging technologies such as Web3, fintech, or AI—a big plus, but not required.

Compensation

• Base salary for US: $175,000 to $275,000 plus benefits & equity.