Senior Product Designer, Developer Foundations
- Your attention to detail ensures precise, consistent design specs and system management.
- You excel at building reliable, scalable design systems that serve as a source of truth.
- Your methodical approach suits iterative improvements and clear, user-tested designs.
- Driving user research and adapting to new AI features may feel uncomfortable outside your routine.
- The high-pressure, push-boundaries culture might clash with your preference for stable processes.
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As a Senior Product Designer on the Developer Foundations team within the Developer Product Group, you'll shape the end-to-end experience for developers building on Coinbase. This team owns the Developer Portal, including documentation, API dashboards, and onboarding flows that are the front door for every external developer integrating with our platform. You'll lead design for these critical surfaces, turning complex technical workflows into clear, intuitive experiences that drive developer adoption and success at scale.
What you'll do:
- Own end-to-end design for the Developer Portal, spanning documentation, API dashboards, onboarding flows, and self-service tooling.
- Lead design system contributions specific to developer-facing surfaces, ensuring consistency and scalability across the Portal experience.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and Developer Relations to identify friction points in the developer journey and ship high-impact improvements.
- Drive user research and usability testing with external developers to validate design decisions and uncover unmet needs.
- Shape how AI-powered features surface within the Portal, including intelligent search, contextual guidance, and code generation experiences.
- Build and maintain design specs, prototypes, and interaction patterns in Figma that serve as the source of truth for engineering delivery.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of product design experience, with at least 2 years designing developer tools, technical platforms, or documentation experiences.
- Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end design for complex, multi-surface products shipped to production.
- Proven experience contributing to or maintaining a design system, with a portfolio showing systematic, scalable design thinking.
- Proficiency in Figma for design delivery, prototyping, and design system management.
- Track record of integrating user research insights into design decisions, with examples of how research changed a shipped outcome.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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Best personality fits for this role
You excel at understanding and simplifying technical workflows, making you ideal for developer tools design.
Read the INTP career guide →You naturally dive into complex systems and simplify them, which fits designing developer portals and APIs.
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