Senior Product Designer

At NEAR, we're a small and early design team with a range of experience both in and out of blockchain. As generalists, we wear many hats, and collaborate with teams across our organization to facilitate user research, prototype and design solutions for various products and infrastructure, and validate our work through testing along the way.

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As part of an initial cohort of designers, you'll have an opportunity to use your experience to help establish best practices and processes for design at NEAR. As a designer working to help build a layer 1 blockchain protocol, you'll tackle unique problems related to identity, security, open finance, asset management, network operations, and more. We're looking for individuals with several years of experience working as a part of cross-functional product teams in areas such as research, UX and UI design, and design systems.

What we look for

​Essential

• Several years of experience designing interactive applications
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Ability and desire to help manage projects, and the confidence and desire to openly articulate your thoughts and opinions around product strategy
• Excellent UX and UI design skills
• Experience conducting user research and usability testing as a means to empower teams to converge on product strategy and vision, and to validate assumptions about our products and their users
• Ability to effectively synthesize research insights into a form that can be presented and easily consumed and utilized by our team and our community

Ideal

• Experience working on or with design systems to improve or maintain consistency and scalability across a product(s)
• Experience operating in an unorthodox organizational structure, knowing when to use influence vs authority
• Community focus and open-source mindset
• Ability to work across multiple timezones with remote colleagues
• Experience designing for the unique applications, patterns and interactions inherent to blockchain
• Familiarity with existing blockchain ecosystems, products, and developments

What you'll do

There's lots going on at NEAR, and you’ll have an opportunity to contribute in many different ways:

• Contribute to the overall product and design direction of NEAR protocol products and infrastructure
• Collaborate on building and evolving a new internal design system
• Own and revamp the design of the NEAR Block Explorer
• Design features and improvements that ship quickly and with high quality
• Create flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for product features
• Work closely with engineers and other partners to ensure high-quality implementation
• Facilitate user research and usability testing to learn about our users, align teams and validate your design decisions
• Collaborate with other designers to establish design processes for growing product teams