Staff Product Designer - Advanced Trade

About the role

As a Staff Product Designer at Coinbase, you will be responsible for the end-to-end design of advanced trading features across web and mobile platforms. You will work on high-impact projects that involve complex workflows and data-intensive environments, ensuring that the user interface meets high standards of quality and usability.

This position is remote-first, meaning you can work from anywhere, but you will have the opportunity to collaborate in person during quarterly sessions. Success in this role involves not only delivering high-quality designs but also mentoring junior designers and effectively collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The base salary ranges from $135,000 to $225,000, depending on experience and location.

Skills that matter here

• Figma: You will use Figma extensively for creating prototypes and visual designs.
• prototyping: Prototyping is essential for developing and testing your design concepts.
• visual design: Strong visual design skills are necessary to elevate the quality of the product.
• interaction design: Interaction design expertise is crucial for creating intuitive user experiences.
• systems thinking: Systems thinking helps in designing scalable frameworks for complex workflows.

Who this role suits

• A seasoned designer with over 8 years of experience in digital product design.
• Someone comfortable working autonomously in fast-paced and ambiguous environments.
• A collaborative team player with excellent communication skills.
• A mentor who can coach and guide junior designers effectively.

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.

What Coinbase offers

• Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $207,485 — $244,100 USD.