Staff Product Designer

About the role

We’re hiring a Staff Product Designer at Polymarket. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role where you’ll help define the product’s direction and craft the core user experience from first principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead with autonomy. You’ll define and drive design work from scratch — identifying what needs to be done while raising the quality bar, and collaborating closely with engineers and leadership to bring ideas to life.
• Design for clarity and depth. Our product touches prediction markets, finance, and social networks. Your job is to make these powerful tools feel accessible, intuitive, and engaging.
• Prototype quickly and test ideas. You’ll use tools like Figma, Cursor, and light code to explore concepts, validate assumptions, and refine interfaces based on real feedback.
• Develop insights through research. You’ll talk to users, analyze behavior, and extract meaningful patterns that inform product direction.
• Define and evolve our design system. You’ll create the standards and systems that keep our product cohesive as it grows.
• Act as a force-multiplier. You’ll raise the bar — not just through your own work, but by modeling great thinking, process, and collaboration across the company.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience designing high-quality consumer products, ideally in early-stage or zero-to-one environments
• A portfolio that shows you can think at the system level while sweating the details
• Strong visual and interaction design skills, plus fluency in tools like Figma, Cursor, or V0
• Clear, thoughtful communication — whether you’re sharing work, making a case, or putting together a presentation
• A bias towards ownership and action: you know how to figure out what matters, even when the path isn’t obvious
• Deep curiosity about markets, incentives, and the future of truth

Qualifications

• Experience working in fintech, crypto, or data-rich products
• Exposure to trading, DeFi, or financial systems — or a hunger to learn quickly

Skills

• Experience in early-stage or zero-to-one environments
• Portfolio showcasing system-level design and attention to detail
• Fluency in design tools like Figma, Cursor, or V0
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams
• Curiosity about markets, incentives, and the future of truth

Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
• 401k match
• Hardware setup — new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories