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.

Requirements

• 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.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in designing and implementing user interfaces and interactions.
• Proven track record of delivering impactful design solutions that drive business outcomes.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Strong understanding of design principles and best practices, including usability, accessibility, and user-centered design.
• Experience with design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, etc.
• Passion for staying current with industry trends and technologies relevant to the field.

Skills

• Strong understanding of design principles and best practices, including usability, accessibility, and user-centered design.
• Experience with design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, etc.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Passion for staying current with industry trends and technologies relevant to the field.

Benefits

• Health Benefits: We cover 100% Dental/Vision/Medical for employees and 90% for dependents.
• Flexible Time Off Policy: Our flexible time off policy is aimed at letting our employees take as much time off as they'd like to refresh so long as it doesn't interfere with their ability to meet their goals and contribute effectively to company velocity.
• Parental Leave: 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Bonding & up to 8 additional weeks for the birthing parent.
• Mental Health: We offer access to Spring Health, covering 8 therapy & 8 coaching sessions per year.
• Company & Team retreats to get together for fun and collaboration.
• Weekly $50 Uber Eats credit.