Staff Product Designer - Advanced Trade

About the role

This Staff Product Designer position focuses on the Advanced Trade platform at Coinbase, requiring ownership of the entire product design lifecycle. This includes discovery, concept generation, prototyping, specification, and iteration through to launch. The role involves working on high-ambiguity initiatives, such as derivatives, spot margin, and structured products, aiming to improve the user interface and interaction quality for sophisticated traders.

A key aspect of this role is designing scalable frameworks, patterns, and information architecture to manage complex, data-dense workflows. The goal is to enable advanced traders to make clear decisions in high-stakes situations. The designer will partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Research teams to define problems, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver impactful work.

Success in this role means raising the overall design quality for the Advanced Trading product surface, ensuring it meets industry standards for 2026 and beyond. The designer is expected to lead through influence, coaching junior designers and contributing strong opinions to extend their impact beyond individual projects. This position is for someone who thrives in an intense, high-bar environment and is ready to push past perceived limits.

The salary for this position ranges from $207,485 to $244,100 annually.

Skills that matter here

• Figma: This role requires deep fluency in Figma for design work and modern prototyping workflows.
• prototyping: The designer will be responsible for prototyping key Advanced Trade experiences from concept through launch.
• interaction design: Strong interaction design craft is essential to raise the quality bar for the broader team and create intuitive user experiences.
• visual design: This role demands strong visual design skills to enhance the aesthetic and functional quality of the product interface.
• systems thinking: The designer must apply systems thinking to create scalable frameworks and patterns for complex workflows.
• generative AI tools: The ability to responsibly use generative AI tools in daily workflows is expected, applying sound judgment and human oversight.

Who this role suits

• You have a background in designing complex, data-dense digital products, possibly within workflow-heavy or tools-oriented environments.
• You are comfortable operating autonomously with limited oversight and have a track record of shaping direction in fast-moving, ambiguous settings.
• You are a leader who influences others, coaches less experienced designers, and can effectively communicate with cross-functional stakeholders.
• You thrive in an intense, high-bar environment and are motivated by challenging work that pushes your limits.

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.