Senior Staff Product Designer

What you'll do

• Own the creative direction and visual identity of the Coinbase consumer product, setting the north star for how brand comes to life inside the app experience
• Lead high-impact product launch campaigns from in-app onboarding flows to GTM feature moments, ensuring a unified story from social post to product screen
• Drive emotional connection across core product surfaces by partnering with Product Designers on UI evolutions, motion systems, and illustration
• Shape and evolve the Coinbase design language, including icons, color systems, and UI components, in collaboration with Brand Creative and Product Design
• Build and mentor a team of visual, motion, and illustration designers, raising the quality bar through critique, shared standards, and a clear creative vision
• Partner cross-functionally with Engineers, Product Managers, and Marketers to move quickly without sacrificing craft

Required Skills and Experience

• 7+ years leading product-focused creative work (visual design, motion, illustration) with a portfolio demonstrating shipped, high-impact product experiences
• Mastery of typography, layout, color theory, and composition evidenced by a body of shipped consumer product work
• Track record of presenting creative strategy to senior leadership and securing alignment across Product, Engineering, and Marketing stakeholders
• Experience managing or mentoring senior designers and building scalable design team rituals (critiques, reviews, shared systems) in a remote-first environment
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional creative initiatives from concept to adoption, working autonomously in ambiguous environments
• Fluency in Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite with proficiency in prototyping tools
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.