Staff Product Designer

About the role

This Staff Product Designer position at OpenSea focuses on leading design initiatives to enhance user experiences within the digital asset ecosystem. The role requires translating open-ended product ideas into actionable designs through research, prototyping, and iteration. Success in this position means consistently delivering high-quality, intuitive solutions that balance user needs with technical feasibility and business objectives.

The design team operates in a remote-first environment, emphasizing ownership, trust, and continuous progress. Designers are expected to collaborate closely with engineers, ensuring that design thinking is integrated throughout the product development process. This setting suits individuals who can thrive in a fast-moving, talent-dense team and contribute to shaping the company's design culture.

A key aspect of this role involves contributing to and evolving OpenSea's design system, aiming to improve quality, consistency, and efficiency across all product surfaces. The designer will also be responsible for clearly communicating design rationale to various teams, fostering alignment towards shared goals. This position is for someone who can model strong craft, collaboration, and curiosity within the organization.

The annual salary for this position ranges from $175,000 to $275,000.

Skills that matter here

• product design experience: The role requires over seven years of product design experience, covering both consumer and platform-facing products.
• interaction and visual design skills: Candidates need strong interaction and visual design skills, demonstrated through a portfolio that showcases systems thinking and attention to detail.
• collaborating closely with engineers: This position involves close collaboration with engineers to deliver high-quality, technically informed designs.
• UI, UX, motion & interaction: The ideal candidate will have broad experience across UI, UX, motion, and interaction, with deep expertise in one or two areas.
• communication and storytelling skills: Exceptional communication and storytelling abilities are necessary to influence and align cross-functional partners.
• Web3, fintech, or AI: Experience in emerging technologies like Web3, fintech, or AI is a plus, but not a mandatory requirement for this role.

Who this role suits

• You have a strong product sense and can operate effectively without the rigid structure of a large product organization.
• You are comfortable owning complex, ambiguous problem spaces and transforming them into clear, intuitive solutions.
• You are a proactive communicator, capable of aligning diverse teams around shared design goals.
• You are committed to continuous learning and contributing to a design culture that values strong craft and collaboration.

From the employer

Responsibilities

• Lead design initiatives from concept through launch, collaborating closely with engineers and other designers to define and deliver high-quality user experiences.
• Channel design thinking into our product development process, ensuring we’re solving real user problems with consistency & simplicity.
• Hone open-ended product ideas into actionable design directions through research, prototyping, and iteration.
• Create end-to-end experiences balancing user needs, technical feasibility, and business goals.
• Contribute to and evolve our design system to raise quality, consistency, and efficiency across all OpenSea surfaces.
• Communicate design rationale clearly and effectively across disciplines, helping align teams around shared goals.
• Help shape the design culture at OpenSea by modeling strong craft, collaboration, and curiosity.

Desired Experience

• 7+ years of product design experience, across both consumer and platform-facing products.
• Demonstrated ability to own complex, ambiguous problem spaces and turn them into elegant, intuitive solutions.
• Strong product sense—comfortable thinking strategically and operating without the structure of a large product org.
• Excellent interaction and visual design skills, with a portfolio that highlights both systems thinking and attention to detail.
• Experience collaborating closely with engineers to ship high-quality, technically informed designs.
• Breadth across UI, UX, motion & interaction, with deep skills focussed in 1-2 areas and comfort dabbling in the others.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional partners.
• Experience working in emerging technologies such as Web3, fintech, or AI—a big plus, but not required.

Benefits & Perks

• 🏥 Health Benefits: We cover 100% Dental/Vision/Medical for employees and 90% for dependents.
• 🌴 Flexible Time Off Policy: Our flexible time off policy is aimed at letting our employees take as much time off as they’d like to refresh so long as it doesn’t interfere with their ability to meet their goals and contribute effectively to company velocity.
• 👶 Parental Leave: 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Bonding & up to 8 additional weeks for the birthing parent.
• 💛 Mental Health: We offer access to Spring Health, covering 8 therapy & 8 coaching sessions per year.
• 📅 11 Company Holidays.
• 🏦 Fidelity 401K Plan.
• 📱 Internet/Mobile Reimbursement Plan.
• 🧘 Reimbursement or Monthly Snack Delivery.
• ✈ Company & Team retreats to get together for fun and collaboration.
• ☕ Team Member Co-Working and Gathering Expense.
• 🖥 MacBook Pro & WFH Stipend to make sure you are set up for success.
• 🌯 Weekly $50 Uber Eats credit.