Staff Product Designer - Advanced Trade

About the role

As a Staff Product Designer at Coinbase, you will own the end-to-end design process for advanced trading experiences across web and mobile platforms. Your role will involve everything from initial discovery and concepting to prototyping and final launch, ensuring high-quality outcomes for millions of users.

You will work in a fast-paced environment that values innovation and high standards. Collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, and Research teams, you will tackle complex design challenges and elevate the overall quality of the Advanced Trading product surface, preparing it for future demands.

The salary range for this role is between $207,485 and $244,100.

Skills that matter here

• Figma: You will use Figma extensively for creating design prototypes and workflows.
• prototyping: Prototyping will be a key part of your responsibilities to visualize and test design concepts.
• interaction design: This role requires strong interaction design skills to enhance user experiences in trading.
• visual design: You will apply your visual design expertise to ensure high-quality, engaging interfaces.

Who this role suits

• You have a strong background in product design, particularly in complex and data-heavy environments.
• You thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous situations and can operate autonomously.
• You possess excellent communication skills and can effectively collaborate with diverse teams.
• You have experience mentoring junior designers and influencing design direction without formal authority.

From the employer

What you’ll be doing

• Own end-to-end product design for key Advanced Trade experiences across web and mobile, from discovery and concepting through prototyping, specs, iteration, and launch quality.
• Lead high-ambiguity, zero-to-one and improvement initiatives across advanced trading surfaces, including areas such as derivatives, spot margin, structured products, portfolio, and modular UI evolution.
• Raise the craft and quality bar across the Advanced Trading product surface, helping bring our UI and interaction quality up to what best-in-class industry products are expected to deliver in 2026 and beyond.
• Design scalable frameworks, patterns, and information architecture for complex, data-dense workflows so advanced traders can move with clarity in high-stakes moments.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Research, and cross-functional peers to define problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and ship thoughtful, high-impact work.
• Lead through influence by coaching and upleveling more junior designers, contributing strong opinions, and extending your impact beyond a single project or feature area.

What we look for in you

• 8+ years of experience designing digital products, including meaningful time in complex, data-dense, workflow-heavy, or tools-oriented environments.
• Broad end-to-end product design range and a track record of operating autonomously with limited oversight in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Strong visual design, interaction design, systems thinking, and prototyping craft; able to raise the quality bar for the broader team.
• Proven ability to lead through influence, shape direction, and coach less experienced designers without formal management responsibility.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner effectively with Product and Engineering on highly collaborative work.
• Deep fluency in Figma and modern prototyping workflows.
• Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots in day-to-day workflows, applying sound judgment and human-in-the-loop practices to improve quality and efficiency.

Nice to haves

• Experience designing for trading, brokerage, wallet, fintech, or other high-information, high-stakes products.
• Familiarity with crypto market structure, derivatives, options, charting, portfolio, or related advanced trading concepts.
• Experience working on zero-to-one launches, major platform redesigns, or building design systems / scalable UI frameworks in high-growth environments.
• Background as a founding designer or in smaller, high-craft teams where you had to figure things out with minimal process or support.