Staff Product Designer - Advanced Trade
- You are great at generating novel ideas for zero-to-one initiatives and evolving modular UI, which matches the role's innovation focus.
- Your adaptability and comfort with ambiguity help you thrive in fast-paced, undefined problem spaces like Advanced Trade.
- You communicate enthusiastically with cross-functional teams, making collaboration with Product and Engineering energizing.
- You might find it hard to sustain focus on detailed execution and quality assurance over time, craving novelty instead.
- Helping more junior designers through steady coaching could feel tedious, as you prefer quick, innovative brainstorming.
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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.
What we look for in you
- 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.
Nice to haves
- 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
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Best personality fits for this role
You think strategically and can own end-to-end design for complex trading surfaces, which aligns perfectly with leading high-ambiguity initiatives.
Read the INTJ career guide →Your command of complex systems and ability to drive 0-1 initiatives makes you a natural fit for leading high-impact projects.
Read the ENTJ career guide →Your hands-on, pragmatic approach is perfect for prototyping and refining complex, data-dense interactions.
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