Staff Product Designer

OpenSea is a foundational web3 company building infrastructure for NFTs, fungible tokens, and emerging digital assets. The Staff Product Designer will lead end-to-end product design initiatives across mobile and web, shape product direction, evolve design systems, and advance AI-enabled design practices while collaborating with engineers and designers.

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 and simplicity
• Hone open-ended product ideas into actionable design directions through research, prototyping, and iteration
• Create end-to-end experiences across mobile and web, balancing user needs, technical feasibility, and business goals while maintaining a high bar for visual quality, polish, and brand expression
• Contribute to and evolve our design system to raise quality, consistency, and efficiency across all OpenSea surfaces while helping designers and engineers build more effectively through emerging AI-powered tools and practices
• Explore and champion new design and AI-enabled workflows that improve team effectiveness and expand what's possible for product development
• 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
• Strong experience designing mobile-first products, with a deep understanding of what makes for an intuitive, polished mobile experience
• Exceptional visual design and interaction design skills, with a portfolio that demonstrates strong aesthetic judgement, systems thinking, and meticulous attention to detail
• Experience building, scaling, or maintaining design systems, component libraries, or other frameworks that improve product quality, consistency, and team velocity
• Experience collaborating closely with engineers to ship high-quality, technically informed designs
• Experience leveraging AI tools and workflows to improve design quality, efficiency, and team effectiveness
• Breadth across UI, UX, motion & interaction, with particular strength in visual design, craft, and aesthetic execution
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional partners