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As a Staff Product Designer, Advanced Trade, you will help shape the future of Coinbase’s most sophisticated trading experiences and give millions of traders the speed, confidence, and control they expect from a best-in-class platform. You will join a distributed Advanced Trading Design team working across desktop and mobile surfaces, from portfolio and charting to derivatives, spot margin, and other high-complexity workflows. In this role, you’ll lead 0–1 initiatives, drive high-impact improvements across the product, and raise the overall quality and craft of the Advanced Trading experience.
What you’ll be doing- Own end-to-end product design for key Advanced Trade experiences across web and mobile, from discovery and concepting through prototyping, specs, iteration, and launch quality.
- Lead high-ambiguity, zero-to-one and improvement initiatives across advanced trading surfaces, including areas such as derivatives, spot margin, structured products, portfolio, and modular UI evolution.
- Raise the craft and quality bar across the Advanced Trading product surface, helping bring our UI and interaction quality up to what best-in-class industry products are expected to deliver in 2026 and beyond.
- Design scalable frameworks, patterns, and information architecture for complex, data-dense workflows so advanced traders can move with clarity in high-stakes moments.
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Research, and cross-functional peers to define problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and ship thoughtful, high-impact work.
- Lead through influence by coaching and upleveling more junior designers, contributing strong opinions, and extending your impact beyond a single project or feature area.
- 8+ years of experience designing digital products, including meaningful time in complex, data-dense, workflow-heavy, or tools-oriented environments.
- Broad end-to-end product design range and a track record of operating autonomously with limited oversight in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
- Strong visual design, interaction design, systems thinking, and prototyping craft; able to raise the quality bar for the broader team.
- Proven ability to lead through influence, shape direction, and coach less experienced designers without formal management responsibility.
- Excellent cross-functional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner effectively with Product and Engineering on highly collaborative work.
- Deep fluency in Figma and modern prototyping workflows.
- Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots in day-to-day workflows, applying sound judgment and human-in-the-loop practices to improve quality and efficiency.
- Experience designing for trading, brokerage, wallet, fintech, or other high-information, high-stakes products.
- Familiarity with crypto market structure, derivatives, options, charting, portfolio, or related advanced trading concepts.
- Experience working on zero-to-one launches, major platform redesigns, or building design systems / scalable UI frameworks in high-growth environments.
- Background as a founding designer or in smaller, high-craft teams where you had to figure things out with minimal process or support.
Position ID: P77072
Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying.
Commitment to Equal OpportunityCoinbase is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. For US applicants, you may view the Employee Rights and the Know Your Rights notices by clicking on their corresponding links. Additionally, Coinbase participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.
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AI DisclosureFor select roles, Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. A human recruiter will review your interview responses, provided in the form of a voice recording and/or transcript, to assess them against the qualifications and characteristics outlined in the job description.
For select roles, Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate.
The above pilots are for testing purposes and Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment. To request a reasonable accommodation due to disability, please contact accommodations[at]coinbase.com
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