Job Description

Job Title: Sr. Product Designer

Location: SF or NYC. Hybrid Role (3 Days a week in office, 2 days WFH)

Company: ZetaChain

About ZetaChain

ZetaChain is the first Universal Blockchain offering native access to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and more. We deliver seamless user experiences and unified liquidity for the next billion users. Featuring its Universal EVM, ZetaChain allows developers to create Universal Apps that function across any blockchain, fostering a fluid crypto ecosystem from a single platform.

ZetaChain takes pride in its energetic and engaged community, underscoring our growing significance in the blockchain arena:

• Thriving Ecosystem: Over 150+ dApps developed, showcasing diverse innovation and utilization.
  
• Engagement: With over 1M+ followers on Twitter and an active Discord community of 1.2M+ members, ZetaChain maintains a vibrant atmosphere for engagement and collaboration.
  
• Activity: Our mainnet has seen over 8K+ smart contracts deployed and processed over 137M+ transactions among 3.5M unique wallet addresses.
  

Find out more about our ecosystem.

Learn more about our hiring culture: Dream Team Culture.

About the Role

ZetaChain is seeking a Sr. Product Designer to spearhead design efforts on our key products. This position offers a unique mix of creativity, innovation, and fun, providing an opportunity to work across various domains, including product design, UX, and strategy, to support the team in continuing to build exceptional products. You will collaborate with team members across time zones and continents to develop ideas, incorporate feedback, and continually enhance our products.

What You’ll Do:

• Help Lead Product Design: Take charge of designing web3 products that delight users and address complex business and development needs while challenging current crypto standards.
• Dynamic Feature Design: Work on novel and existing features unique to web3 to enhance our products and deliver value at scale.
• Full Product Lifecycle: Design products and features from inception, including feature branding, prototyping, and iteration.
• Collaborative Development: Partner closely with product and engineering teams to design excellent products and contribute to their development and implementation.
• Research & UX: Conduct UX research to identify user needs, improve experiences, and ensure products meet real-world requirements.
• Ecosystem Guidance: Occasionally advise and collaborate with ecosystem apps on product design and branding to align with ZetaChain's mission.

What Excites You:

• Creativity & Exploring the Unknown: Enjoy working on dynamic experiences and exploring product ideas and directions with little initial definition.
• Design Ownership: Passionate about owning product designs from concept to completion and setting new creative and branding standards for our products.
• User-Centric Focus: Ability to design for multiple user archetypes, with a strong intuition for user behavior, focusing on accessibility and varied experiences.
• Improving Web3 UX: Holding strong but adaptable opinions on web3 product design and onboarding, envisioning new standards beyond current crypto UX.

What We Look For:

• Portfolio: A robust portfolio showcasing stunning design, strategic thinking, and a systematic, scalable approach to end-to-end user and business-centric designs.
• Professional Experience: Expertise in UX, visual design, and written communication.
• Design Language: Experience in creating and enhancing iconography and illustration design language, with the ability to generate new content.
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead design projects from conceptualization to launch alongside cross-functional teams.
• Consumer-Focused Products: Experience setting design direction for consumer-facing products on web and mobile platforms.
• Collaboration: Work effectively within a collaborative environment alongside designers, engineers, product teams, marketers, legal, and business teams.
• Simplifying Complexity: Skill in transforming complexity into simplicity and creating clarity from ambiguity or uncertainty.
• Technical Understanding: Ability to break down complex, technical concepts into intuitive UX and designs.
• Prototyping and Testing: Experience in prototyping and evaluating designs.
• Design Tools: Mastery of standard design tools, including Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Design Range: Comfort with strategy, UX, visual design, prototyping, illustration, motion design, business strategy acumen, storytelling, etc.

Nice to Have:

• Agency Experience: Experience working in a design agency or product company on consumer, social, gaming, or rewards products and programs.
• User Testing: Experience with user testing, translating feedback into actionable improvements, and iterating products based on feedback.
• New Product Development: Experience in developing new products from concept to launch.