Senior Product Designer, Developer Foundations

Coinbase is hiring a Senior Product Designer for its Developer Foundations team. The role leads end-to-end design for the Developer Portal, improving documentation, API dashboards, onboarding, self-service tooling, and AI-powered experiences for external developers.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end design for the Developer Portal, spanning documentation, API dashboards, onboarding flows, and self-service tooling
• Lead design system contributions specific to developer-facing surfaces, ensuring consistency and scalability across the Portal experience
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Developer Relations to identify friction points in the developer journey and ship high-impact improvements
• Drive user research and usability testing with external developers to validate design decisions and uncover unmet needs
• Shape how AI-powered features surface within the Portal, including intelligent search, contextual guidance, and code generation experiences
• Build and maintain design specs, prototypes, and interaction patterns in Figma that serve as the source of truth for engineering delivery

Requirements:

• 5+ years of product design experience, with at least 2 years designing developer tools, technical platforms, or documentation experiences
• Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end design for complex, multi-surface products shipped to production
• Proven experience contributing to or maintaining a design system, with a portfolio showing systematic, scalable design thinking
• Proficiency in Figma for design delivery, prototyping, and design system management
• Track record of integrating user research insights into design decisions, with examples of how research changed a shipped outcome
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality