Staff Product Designer - Advanced Trade

About the role

This Staff Product Designer position at Coinbase involves taking ownership of the entire product design lifecycle for advanced trading features. This includes everything from initial discovery and concept development to prototyping, specification, iteration, and ensuring high-quality launch. The role focuses on both new initiatives and enhancements across various advanced trading surfaces, such as derivatives, spot margin, structured products, and portfolio management.

A key aspect of this role is elevating the design quality within the advanced trading product area. This means designing scalable frameworks, patterns, and information architecture that enable advanced traders to navigate complex, data-dense workflows with clarity, especially during critical moments. The designer will work to bring the UI and interaction quality up to industry standards for 2026 and beyond.

Success in this role requires close collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Research teams, as well as other cross-functional peers. The designer will define problems, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver impactful work. Additionally, the role involves leading through influence by coaching and developing more junior designers, contributing strong design opinions, and extending impact beyond specific projects.

The annual salary for this position is between $207,485 and $244,100 USD.

Skills that matter here

• Figma: This role requires deep fluency in Figma for day-to-day design tasks and modern prototyping workflows.
• prototyping: The designer will be responsible for prototyping designs from concept through iteration to launch quality.
• interaction design: Strong interaction design skills are essential for creating intuitive and effective user experiences in complex trading environments.
• visual design: The role demands strong visual design capabilities to raise the overall craft and quality bar for the product.

Who this role suits

• A designer with 8+ years of experience in complex, data-dense, or tools-oriented digital product environments.
• Someone who can operate autonomously with limited oversight in fast-moving and ambiguous settings.
• An individual who can lead through influence, shape design direction, and mentor less experienced designers.
• A professional with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, capable of partnering effectively with product and engineering teams.

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.