Senior Product Designer

About Nexus

Nexus is the engine for verifiable finance — a blockchain designed to natively embed the world’s financial system into one compounding system. Built to support every major financial market on a single global exchange, Nexus unifies infrastructure that has historically been fragmented across chains and intermediaries.

Headquartered in San Francisco with a growing presence in Buenos Aires, Nexus is proud to be a cross-continental team of engineers, cryptographers, and market builders. We’re investing deeply in the Latin American ecosystem — and always looking for world-class talent to join us.

Nexus is backed by leading investors, including Pantera, Lightspeed, Dragonfly, Faction, Blockchain Builders Fund, Alliance, and SVA, and works with more than 100 partners across the global finance and blockchain stack.

Design is a core function at Nexus. We believe great products emerge from first-principles thinking, deep user understanding, and close collaboration across design, product, and engineering.

The Role

We’re hiring a Senior Product Designer to lead end-to-end design for complex, high-stakes products at the intersection of Web3, financial infrastructure, and user trust.

In this role, you’ll independently own large problem spaces — from defining the right problems to shipping high-quality, production-ready solutions. You’ll act as a thought partner to product, engineering, and founders, using design thinking and first-principles reasoning to shape product direction.

This role is ideal for someone who wants both hands-on craft and strategic impact in a fast-moving Web3 environment.

What You’ll Do

Design Leadership & First-Principles Thinking

• Break down ambiguous, complex product challenges into core user needs and system constraints
• Challenge assumptions and legacy UX patterns common in financial, exchange, and crypto products
• Apply structured design thinking to drive clarity, alignment, and momentum across teams
• Set a high bar for quality, usability, and user trust across the product
• Mentor and support more junior designers as the team grows

End-to-End Product Ownership

• Lead design for major product areas from discovery through launch and iteration
• Navigate multiple product contexts simultaneously, balancing priorities and maintaining design consistency across the Nexus ecosystem
• Translate complex Web3 concepts — trading flows, wallets, transactions, permissions, and security — into intuitive, user-centered experiences
• Balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints in decision-making

UX & Interaction Design

• Design scalable interaction patterns and user flows for high-complexity, high-stakes systems
• Identify and mitigate usability, trust, and edge-case risks early in the design process
• Advocate for clarity, accessibility, and consistency across the product surface

Visual & UI Craft

• Produce polished, production-ready UI with strong attention to detail
• Own and evolve key parts of the design system to support scale and development speed
• Partner closely with engineers to ensure thoughtful, high-quality execution

Research & Insight

• Lead and conduct user research, from exploratory interviews to usability testing
• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights into clear design and product recommendations
• Use research to inform both tactical decisions and broader product strategy

Collaboration & Influence

• Work as a close partner to product managers, engineers, and founders
• Clearly communicate design rationale, tradeoffs, and decisions to diverse stakeholders

What Success Looks Like

• Complex Web3 and exchange workflows that feel intuitive, trustworthy, and accessible
• Design systems and interaction patterns that scale with product and engineering velocity
• Strong cross-functional alignment driven by clear design thinking and communication
• Meaningful improvements in usability, clarity, and user confidence across Nexus products
• Design functioning as a key driver of both product strategy and execution

What We’re Looking For

Experience & Skills

• 6–10+ years of experience in product design, UX design, or related roles
• Strong portfolio demonstrating senior-level ownership, first-principles thinking, and end-to-end impact
• Proven experience designing complex, systems-driven, or trust-critical products (e.g., fintech, crypto, platforms, exchanges)
• High level of proficiency with modern design tools such as Figma

Mindset

• Deeply user-centered, analytical, and curious
• Operates as a self-starter, independently identifying, owning, and driving product enhancements end to end
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and driving clarity independently
• Able to move fluidly between strategy and detailed execution

Collaboration

• Strong communicator who builds trust across disciplines
• Comfortable giving and receiving candid, constructive feedback
• Effective working in a remote-first, cross-functional environment

Bonus Points

• Experience designing crypto, DeFi, or financial exchange products
• Hands-on experience with Web3 products, wallets, or on-chain UX
• Background in fintech, payments, trading, or security-sensitive systems
• Early-stage startup experience
• Familiarity with front-end development or design engineering

Why Join Nexus

• Be a foundational senior designer with significant influence over product and design direction
• Work on high-impact problems at the frontier of decentralized and verifiable finance
• Competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and token participation
• Opportunity to define design systems, processes, and culture from an early stage