Senior Product Designer, CoinDesk

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

CoinDesk is the most trusted media events indices and data company for the global crypto economy. Since 2013 CoinDesk Media has led the story of the future of money and investing illuminating the transformation in society and culture that comes with it. Our award-winning team of journalists delivers news and unparalleled insights that bring transparency comprehension and context. CoinDesk Events gathers the global crypto blockchain and Web3 communities at annual events such as Consensus the worlds largest and longest-running crypto festival. CoinDesk Indices offers expertise in digital asset indices data and research to educate and empower investors. For more information on CoinDesk media and events please visit and for breaking headlines data and indices visit

In November 2023 CoinDesk was acquired by the Bullish group owner of Bullish a regulated digital assets exchange. For more information on Bullish please visit . CoinDesk operates as an independent subsidiary with an editorial committee to protect journalistic independence.

Reports to:

Head of Product Design

Senior Product Designer to assist in designing web and native applications with a focus on excellent user experiences in our London office. This role will join our Product Design team to design build and deploy products that enhance the user experience of Bullish Global suite of products software applications.

Role & Responsibilities

Translate concepts into user flows wireframes mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences
Facilitate and champion the product vision by researching conceiving sketching prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products
Design and deliver wireframes user stories user journeys and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
Identify design problems and devise elegant product solutions
Work with Product Management on strategic design and user-experience decisions related existing and new features for a variety of products
Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs
Collaborate with the UX team and other product team members and stakeholders
Ask questions take risks and champion new ideas
Cooperate with developers to match visual design intent
Contribute to overall Design Team processes and libraries
Other duties as assigned.

Experience / Qualifications

5 years of UX design experience.
Provide a portfolio/examples of prior work demonstrating your ability to take a project from start to finish.
Youre a generalist and excel at everything from UX work and wireframing to fine-grained visual design.
Youre passionate about UI design and adept at seamlessly integrating it with the overall user experience
Expertise in design software such as Figma. Basic React CSS or JavaScript skills are a plus
Experienced in leveraging generative AI for rapid prototyping and ideation including prompt-based code generation to translate complex design concepts into functional interfaces and accelerate the design-to-development workflow
Ability to work with internal stakeholders as well as clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet users needs and product vision
Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design
A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD) planning and conducting user research user testing
A/B testing rapid prototyping heuristic analysis usability and accessibility concerns
Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently
Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes ideas and solutions to teams and clients
Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications
Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model to regularly deliver design solutions for approval
Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism
Be passionate about resolving user pain points through great design

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

In an effort to attract retain develop and promote the most qualified individuals CoinDesk is committed to treating all applicants and employees in a nondiscriminatory manner with respect to the terms and conditions of employment without regard to race color religion or belief sex national or ethnic origin ancestry age marital status sexual orientation gender identity veteran status/service physical or mental disability or any other classification protected by applicable law. This mandate governs all aspects of employment including recruitment selection promotion training education social and recreation programs compensation discipline termination and access to benefits.

ACCOMMODATION

CoinDesk is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the application process please send an e-mail to and let us know the nature of your request.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Reports to:

Head of Product Design

Role & Responsibilities

Translate concepts into user flows wireframes mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences
Facilitate and champion the product vision by researching conceiving sketching prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products
Design and deliver wireframes user stories user journeys and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
Identify design problems and devise elegant product solutions
Work with Product Management on strategic design and user-experience decisions related existing and new features for a variety of products
Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs
Collaborate with the UX team and other product team members and stakeholders
Ask questions take risks and champion new ideas
Cooperate with developers to match visual design intent
Contribute to overall Design Team processes and libraries
Other duties as assigned.

Experience / Qualifications

5 years of UX design experience.
Provide a portfolio/examples of prior work demonstrating your ability to take a project from start to finish.
Youre a generalist and excel at everything from UX work and wireframing to fine-grained visual design.
Youre passionate about UI design and adept at seamlessly integrating it with the overall user experience
Expertise in design software such as Figma. Basic React CSS or JavaScript skills are a plus
Experienced in leveraging generative AI for rapid prototyping and ideation including prompt-based code generation to translate complex design concepts into functional interfaces and accelerate the design-to-development workflow
Ability to work with internal stakeholders as well as clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet users needs and product vision
Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design
A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD) planning and conducting user research user testing
A/B testing rapid prototyping heuristic analysis usability and accessibility concerns
Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently
Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes ideas and solutions to teams and clients
Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications
Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model to regularly deliver design solutions for approval
Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism
Be passionate about resolving user pain points through great design