Lead Product Designer
Stellar is an open-source blockchain network designed to facilitate fast, low-cost cross-border payments and financial transactions globally.
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About Stellar
Stellar is an open-source blockchain network focused on improving global financial access by enabling fast, secure, and low-cost cross-border transactions. It connects financial institutions, payment systems, and individuals to transfer digital and fiat assets. With a mission to promote financial inclusion, Stellar is designed to serve both developed and underserved markets, offering interoperability between traditional and blockchain-based financial systems.
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About the Role
You will lead design across the foundation's products and 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 the most important and visible work. You will set the design vision, uphold an exceptional standard of craft, and leverage AI tools to multiply what a small design team can deliver, moving faster from concept to high-fidelity, shippable design. In your first 30 days, you'll ramp up on the products, design system, and roadmap, partner with PMs and engineers, and start contributing directly to active design work. Within 90 days, you'll 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.
Requirements
- 7+ years of product design 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; ability to present, influence, and align stakeholders at all levels
- A strong understanding of user-centered design, with experience in research and usability testing
- On-chain / crypto / fintech design experience (bonus)
- Experience building or scaling a design team (bonus)
- Prototyping with code or AI tools such as Framer, v0, and similar (bonus)
- Founder or 0→1 experience (bonus)
Responsibilities
- Set and champion a clear product design vision aligned with company goals and brand values
- Lead by example as the most senior designer, contributing directly to the most important projects with exceptional visual and interaction craft
- Manage, mentor, and grow another product designer; provide thoughtful feedback and career development
- Maintain and scale the design system to ensure consistency and speed across products
- Leverage AI design and prototyping tools to increase the team's leverage and the quality and velocity of shipped work
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering to ship pixel-perfect, user-centered experiences
- Conduct user research and usability testing to validate decisions, and champion user-centered design across the organization
Benefits
- 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 & AD&D (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 benefits through Kindbody
- Wellbeing benefits (One Medical, Rightway, Headspace)
- L&D budget of $1,500/year
- Daily lunch and snacks in office
- Company retreats
- Lumen-denominated grants