Lead Digital Designer
Ripple provides payments, custody and stablecoin solutions that help financial institutions integrate blockchain and digital assets.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Ripple
Ripple helps financial institutions transform global payments by providing blockchain-powered infrastructure for cross-border payments, digital asset custody, and stablecoin solutions. With it, users can enable instant settlements, reduce costs, and access new markets. The company was originally founded as OpenCoin in 2012 and rebranded to Ripple in 2015.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Help shape Ripple's web ecosystem by building scalable systems, defining modern digital experiences, evolving design foundations, contributing to a large-scale website redesign, and partnering with engineering, product, marketing, and agencies.
Requirements
- Proven experience in web or digital product design.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality web design and systems thinking.
- Experience with design systems, component libraries, and scalable frameworks.
- Strong visual design foundation in typography, layout, color, and hierarchy.
- Deep understanding of responsive design, UX principles, and modern web standards.
- Experience collaborating with engineering teams and understanding front-end constraints.
- Ability to communicate design decisions and influence stakeholders.
- Comfort working in fast-paced environments with ambiguity.
- Experience designing complex, multi-page websites or platforms.
- Experience in fintech, B2B, or complex product ecosystems.
- Familiarity with Storybook, design tokens, or system-driven development.
- Experience contributing to or leading large-scale website redesigns.
- Understanding of CRO, A/B testing, and data-informed design.
- Experience with motion design, interaction design, or advanced web storytelling.
- Interest in AI tools for design workflows.
- Experience collaborating with or managing external agencies and partners.
- Exposure to brand-driven and product-driven design environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design of high-impact web experiences across homepage, product pages, and key user journeys.
- Contribute to a scalable design system, including tokens, components, and reusable CMS modules.
- Partner with engineering to translate design systems into production-ready implementations.
- Define and refine site architecture, navigation systems, and user experience frameworks.
- Collaborate with brand teams on a cohesive digital aesthetic.
- Balance brand storytelling with usability, accessibility, and performance.
- Work cross-functionally with product, marketing, and UX teams.
- Guide external agencies and partners on design execution.
- Support UX testing, A/B testing, and ongoing optimization.
- Establish workflows that improve speed, quality, and consistency across the web team.
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office days with 10+ days per month
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting with the Leadership Team
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, and happy hours
- Competitive bonuses and equity
- Health, retirement, family-forming, and family-support benefits
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite and virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Parental leave and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches and fully stocked kitchens
