Product Designer

Pod Network is a purpose-built Layer-1 blockchain for fair, high-performance global markets. It provides MEV-free batch auctions, on-chain market primitives, EVM compatibility, and live 24/7 perpetual futures.

Distributed

Funding history

About Pod Network

Pod Network operates a high-performance Layer-1 network designed for fair, global markets. Its streaming, leaderless architecture supports transaction finality in under 150 milliseconds and throughput exceeding 300,000 transactions per second. The network includes fully on-chain order book, matching, liquidation, and oracle primitives, with Ethereum-compatible interfaces for developers. Pod serves developers building markets and traders using spot, perpetual, options, prediction, and other on-chain markets.

View jobs by Pod Network

Skills

Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will own product experiences across trading interfaces, explorers, onboarding, wallets, leaderboards, dashboards, and future products. You will speak with users, identify worthwhile opportunities, create rapid prototypes and initial mockups, guide external designers, make small code changes, resolve usability issues, and define API and SDK needs with engineers.

Requirements

  • Demonstrate strong product judgment and the ability to turn vague problems into product decisions
  • Produce initial mockups and communicate a clear design direction
  • Work comfortably in a codebase to prototype and make small changes
  • Understand trading products and user behavior
  • Use AI tools across research, prototyping, design, and coding
  • Show a track record of shipping products used by real people
  • Bring familiarity with TypeScript and React as an advantage
  • Bring experience building trading or financial applications as an advantage
  • Bring crypto or DeFi experience as an advantage
  • Bring product management experience as an advantage

Responsibilities

  • Own product surfaces from initial concept through launch
  • Interview traders to understand their needs and decide what to build
  • Create rapid prototypes using AI tools, no-code tools, and rough builds
  • Produce initial mockups and establish the design direction
  • Gather design inspiration and references
  • Guide the external design team and improve the quality of its work
  • Make small changes and experiments in the codebase
  • Identify and address usability issues
  • Define product requirements for APIs and SDKs with protocol and backend engineers
  • Set the quality standard for product experiences

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Travel opportunities connected to the crypto community