Manager, Product Design - Platform

The Platform Design and Research team at Coinbase plays a critical role in executing on our vision to create more economic freedom for the world, and is at the center of execution for products across the entirety of the company. We’re building the most secure, trusted, and easiest to use cryptocurrency products for the millions of people just getting started with crypto, as well as long-standing loyal customers with advanced knowledge of the cryptocurrency space.

As a Product Designer manager you’ll contribute to our mission, vision and strategy through a deep understanding of our customer and business needs. You will develop optimal user journeys to help our customers understand how to use cryptocurrency and complete their tasks with ease and confidence. You’ll work closely with Product and Engineering and XFN teams to help build simple, easy-to-use experiences that express the Coinbase brand and values.

What you'll be doing:

Leading a team of Product Designers
Proactively identifying blockers, opportunities and improvements to the team's product area and be involved in all decision-making at all project phases for your product area (including planning, strategic, tactical, QA, analysis, decision, shipping and retro)
Collaborating cross functionally to drive and shape product vision and strategy
Defining and informing user experience of critical customer journeys
Helping others grow, including mentoring other designers
Designing working processes for your team
Organizing and documenting multiple projects and the team's work in writing
What we look for in you:

Willingness to work across APAC, and US time zones
1-2 years of professional experience leading a team of designers
Strong mentorship skills, management experience is a plus
Experience setting creative direction for consumer-facing products for web and mobile
Excellence in UX thinking, visual design, and written communication
Systems thinking and experience designing at scale
Experience working in a collaborative environment with other designers, engineers, user researchers, and product teams
Fluency in Figma and prototyping tools
Experience driving user research studies
You are low ego, collaborative, and open minded
You love transforming complexity into simplicity, and creating order from uncertainty
Nice to haves:

Previous design experience in FinTech
Familiarity with crypto