Staff Product Designer

Nexus - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Senior

San Francisco, CA

11-50 employees

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

As a Staff Product Designer at Nexus, you will be instrumental in shaping the design and user experience across all aspects of the Nexus project, product, and company. This senior role involves leading the design of network and mathematical visualizations, network explorers, prover and mobile frontends, while creatively expressing Nexus' core ideas such as supercomputing, cryptography, and mathematics. You will have the autonomy to establish design practices and guide the product UX/UI direction, collaborating closely with a talented team in a flat organizational structure.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design across Nexus products and interfaces, including network visualizations, mathematical visualizations, network explorers, prover frontends, and mobile frontends.
• Collaborate with the Brand Design Director and VP of Brand & Design to guide design strategy and establish Nexus' visual identity across all touchpoints.
• Experiment with artistic and creative expressions of Nexus' core concepts such as computation, cryptography, supercomputing, and zero-knowledge proofs.
• Build and maintain design practices that foster collaboration between designers, engineers, and product teams.
• Drive the UX/UI direction, ensuring a seamless, user-centered experience across all Nexus products.
• Inspire a fast-paced design process, ensuring quick iteration and constant improvements, while maintaining high standards of design excellence.
• Collaborate cross-functionally primarily with engineers and the leadership to align design with broader product goals.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in product design, with a strong portfolio of work that includes UI/UX design, particularly in data-driven visualizations or highly technical products.
• Proven ability to integrate artistic and creative design with complex, technical concepts like computation, mathematics, and cryptography.
• Experience in a senior design role, with the ability to take initiative, set design direction, and mentor junior designers.
• Strong ability to work across teams, especially in close collaboration with engineering, product, and leadership.
• Expertise in design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and other relevant software.
• Familiarity with various frontend frameworks, such as React, TypeScript, React Native, Flutter, NextJS and more.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Opportunity to work in a flat organization where you are a key contributor