Upshot is the preeminent company providing appraisal services for NFT and unique digital assets. Leveraging cutting-edge machine learning and blockchain technology, Upshot’s price-discovery protocol is collusion-resistant and truly decentralized. Our product creates a broad new frontier of NFT markets, enabling an entirely new class of financial primitives.
We are a team of crypto-natives and ML experts, with deep experience working on some of the leading projects in Web3, and backed by the foremost funds and angels in crypto. At Upshot, we are committed to nurturing top talent looking to make an impact at the forefront of this new frontier.
As Upshot's Sr. Product Designer, you'll be working to define the strategy and vision that guide the team in building great products and addressing real user needs. You will be working with our product managers, developers, and other designers to help shape innovative products and tools across platforms to create the very best experience for our users.
Responsibilities
- Lead user experience and visual design of Upshot products, from conception to launch, in collaboration with Product
- Raise the bar for Design at Upshot, actively pushing us forward in terms of usability, scalability, and discovery
- Transform broad ideas into useful, valuable, scalable designs, while preserving brand voice and feel
- Produce multiple concepts and prototypes, from near-term solutions to long-term aspirations, and help drive consensus towards a path forward
- Maintain and grow Upshot's Design System, driving the evolution of Upshot's visual language, and defining interaction patterns through components, documentation, and prototypes
- Communicate Design concepts and best practices with Engineering, understanding when further exploration is justified and when it is best to investigate a new approach
- Collaborate with Product, where needed, on copy and content, user research and testing, and competitive benchmarking
- Actively manage the Design backlog
Desired Experience & Skills
- Experience designing for 20k+ users, within enterprise software or consumer software, across multiple platforms including web, Android, and iOS
- Demonstrated Web3 product design experience, with both user experience and visual design
- Experience leading multiple large and small projects, in terms of customer impact and scale (e.g. new features, greenfield products, and iterations on existing products)
- Demonstrated experience in simplifying and communicating complex ideas and processes (e.g. crypto and NFTs) to broad audiences
- Strong portfolio showcasing the simplification of complex workflows, excellent visual design, and successful implementation of Design Systems that: are usable by all stakeholders; have strong documentation; show a strong link between brand and product; demonstrate meticulous attention to interaction patterns and visual design
- Excellent communication skills and collaborative spirit; commitment to continual improvement
- High empathy for users and teammates; flexibility
- Ability to manage competing priorities across Design, with Product
- Experience with designing and managing design systems using Figma
- (Nice to have) UX Content experience
- (Nice to have) Competitive Benchmarking experience
- (Nice to have) User Research experience
- (Nice to have) Accessibility (A11y) design experience
Upshot is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.