Staff Product Designer

About the role

As a Staff Product Designer at OpenSea, you will lead design projects from concept to launch, working closely with engineers and fellow designers. Your focus will be on creating high-quality user experiences that address real user needs while balancing technical feasibility and business goals.

OpenSea is a key player in the web3 ecosystem, dedicated to building infrastructure for digital asset interaction. The team is small and agile, emphasizing collaboration and a commitment to meaningful work. Success in this role means effectively communicating design rationale and contributing to a strong design culture.

The salary range for this role is between $175,000 and $275,000, depending on experience.

Who this role suits

• A professional with over 7 years of product design experience, especially in consumer and platform products.
• Someone who can navigate complex problems and develop intuitive design solutions.
• A strong communicator who can influence and align cross-functional teams.
• A proactive team player who thrives in a fast-paced, remote work environment.

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.