Senior Manager, Product Design, Developer Product Group

About Coinbase Design - We are a tight knit team of designers and researchers. We value low-ego collaboration and balancing rigorous product thinking with thoughtfully crafted experiences. As a close partner to Product and Engineering, Coinbase Design team plays a critical role in executing on the company vision. We take on hard user experience problems to deliver delightful and easy-to-use products from very complex technical challenges. You'll help design our flagship products for the largest user base in crypto and define user experiences for entirely new features that the ecosystem has not seen before. 

We’re looking for an experienced manager to oversee design for our Institutional product group at Coinbase. The Institutional team at Coinbase plays a critical role in executing our vision. Through our Coinbase Prime & Exchange products, we’re building the most secure and full-service prime brokerage platform that enables institutions to participate in the crypto-economy. Institutions trust our products with safekeeping their crypto assets, executing trades, lending their custodied assets for yield, and accessing crypto-native features.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead and manage a team of Product Designers
• Proactively identify blockers, opportunities and improvements to the team's product area. Be involved in all decision-making at all project phases for your product area (including planning, strategic, tactical, QA, analysis, decision, shipping and retro)
• Collaborate cross functionally to drive and shape product vision and strategy
• Direct the allocation of resources for the team in the current and following quarter
• Help others grow, including mentoring other designers Implement Design working processes for your team
• Organize and document multiple projects and the team's working in writing 

What we look for in you

• 5 years of professional experience leading a team of designers 
• Strong mentorship skills, management experience is a plus 
• Experience setting creative direction for consumer-facing products for web and mobile 
• Excellence in UX thinking, visual design, and written communication 
• Experience working in a collaborative environment with other designers, engineers, user researchers, and product teams 
• Fluency in Figma and prototyping tools 
• Experience driving user research studies You are low ego, collaborative, and open minded 
• You love transforming complexity into simplicity, and creating order from uncertainty 

Nice to haves

• Previous design experience in FinTech
• Familiarity with crypto
• Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.

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