UX UI Designer

As a Designer at Acala your role will be split between UX and UI projects, designing intuitive user experiences and then building beautifully practical interfaces for them. Like many other startups our team is small but powerful, and you’ll always have a few different jobs to do; user research, application wire-framing, some web development to improve our landing pages, and much more.
You’ll be expected to own and deliver these projects from end-to-end, although you will have lots of help from the rest of the team and our Senior Designer. To be successful you’ll need two things; A strong set of Design methods that you can apply based on your experience; and an understanding of the target users of our applications; the DeFi community. There’s no way to ‘tiptoe into crypto’ and we’ll need you to climb inside the minds of our users, from DeFi n00bs to daily trading experts. If you’re already a DeFi user at any level, then you’ll have an advantage.


Our ideal candidate will have worked in a startup before, and will know what it’s like to work alongside fast-paced company founders. Your experience will be valued and your ideas will be heard - but you’ll need to turn them into actions if you want them taken seriously. We’re very interested in hearing from people who have blockchain application design experience, but a competent and capable (and fun) Designer is our top priority.

Competitive Salary | Full Time | Contract | Remote New Zealand

What you'll do

• Design beautiful-but-practical interfaces across multiple platforms
• Turn ideas into prototypes with tools like Figma, and eventually into production dApps
• Convert sketches into detailed UI designs with Sketch or other tools of your choice
• Constantly gather feedback from users and teammates to enhance the UI/UX
• Craft consistent and mem
• orable design trends for use by our whole team

What it takes

• 2-4 years experience in UX / UI positions for multi-platform applications
• UX research experience with large datasets, Fintech applications preferred
• Portfolio examples of enabling complex functions via simple UI designs
• Knowledge of DeFi / Blockchain dapps, and their potential UX issues
• Experience with Engineering teams that use: Typescript, React, Node.js, MongoDB

What we offer

• Competitive contract-based compensation (you'll have to invoice us from wherever you are)
• Flexible working hours within Pacific timezones
• Collaborative, transparent and empowering work culture
• Meaningful work on creating better technologies for a fairer future
• Opportunity to work in a multinational, high-performance team with diverse backgrounds