Product Designer
Drift Protocol
Job Functions:
Product
Employment Types:
Full-time
Locations:
Remote; United States; Singapore; Sydney, Australia
Compensation:
USD per year
Posted on:
01/19/2022
Drift is a leading derivatives exchange on Solana. Our mission is to bring state-of-the-art trader-centric experience from centralized exchanges on-chain. Within 39 days of trading, Drift transacted our first $1 billion of volume on the platform. We're a team of experienced traders and builders from DeFi and traditional finance working together to make this a reality.
Drift is looking for a Product Designer to be a core member of our product team and spearhead the development and optimisations of our user interface.
We’re looking for a product designer to own the trading experience on Drift.
Product Designer Role and Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end user journey and all aspects of Drift’s trading systems from user feedback, ideation, to prototyping, to user testing, to final production
- Work directly to implement designs with the frontend engineering team, ideally taking part in the implementation process
- Own the UI and UX of Drift, working with leadership team and external design partners to push product vision through
- Create HiFi UI prototypes of new features based on external needs or internal plans straight to implementation
Requirements:
- Ability to iterate through design concepts to get to implementation fast
- Demonstrated experience in designing DeFi, trading or financial related products
- Strong willingness to learn and understand the core mechanics of the Drift platform
- Strong understanding of (and ideally some working experience with) front-end web technologies including HTML, CSS, JS/TS, and React
- Proficiency in Figma
- A strong eye for aesthetics, layout, information architecture, typography, and iconography
Nice to Have:
- Understanding of perpetual futures, options, margin trading and derivatives products.