Lead Product Designer

About the Company

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in 2014, offering a wide range of simple, reliable, and secure crypto products and services to individuals and institutions in over 70 countries. Our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom by providing trusted access to the decentralized future. We envision a world where crypto reshapes the global financial system, internet, and money to create greater choice, independence, and opportunity for all — bridging traditional finance with the emerging cryptoeconomy in a way that is more open, fair, and secure.

The Department: Design

In Design, we think comfort zones are the enemy of creativity. Our team blends beauty with tech to create world-class products. We are inspired by design, fueled by data, and obsessed with the user, both retail and institutional.

The Role: Lead Product Designer

As a Lead Product Designer, you'll help shape our mission, vision, and strategy by deeply understanding our users’ and business' needs. You possess strong product intuition—capable of crafting scalable solutions and designing ideal user journeys. Our team is a close-knit group of exceptionally talented and driven individuals who collaborate to tackle some of the most challenging problems in this field. You'll closely partner with Product Management, Engineering, and fellow Product Designers to create a truly great user experience on the Gemini platform.

This role is required to be in person twice a week at either our San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, or New York City, NY office.

Responsibilities:

• Play a key role in shaping and influencing product and design strategy.
• Translate business requirements and user research findings into elegant design solutions for complex product problems.
• Take full ownership of the entire user journey and oversee all aspects of design execution, from concept creation to prototyping, user testing, and final production for both our retail and institutional products.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team that includes engineers, product managers and other designers to help define and implement the product roadmap.
• Create web and mobile experiences that are straightforward and user-friendly for clients.
• Contribute new directions and design patterns to Gemini’s design system while pushing the quality of design forward.

Qualifications:

• 7-8+ years of Product Design experience.
• Exceptional skills in product strategy, focused on solutions, and able to work independently.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with a product team to deliver successful products to users.
• Demonstrates an in-depth understanding and knowledge of user-centered design activities from research, concepting, flows, sitemaps, wireframes, to high fidelity user interfaces.
• Strong experience in effective cross-functional communication and managing stakeholders.
• Ability to self-organize, prioritize and deliver the highest quality of work on time.
• Proficient in Figma and other prototyping tools.
• Thoughtful problem solving; ambition to deeply understand the crypto space and user needs.
• Hard worker with a heavy dose of humility.

It Pays to Work Here

The compensation & benefits package for this role includes:

• Competitive starting salary
• A discretionary annual bonus
• Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
• Comprehensive health plans
• 401K with company matching
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible time off

Salary Range: The base salary range for this role is between $150,500 - $215,000 in the State of New York, the State of California and the State of Washington. This range is not inclusive of our discretionary bonus or equity package. When determining a candidate’s compensation, we consider a number of factors including skillset, experience, job scope, and current market data.

In the United States, employees within the New York, Seattle, San Francisco, and Miami metropolitan areas are expected to work from the designated office on a hybrid cadence, unless there is a job-specific requirement to be in the office every work day. We believe our hybrid approach for those near our NYC, Seattle, San Francisco, and Miami offices increases productivity through more in-person collaboration where possible. Employees outside of these areas are considered part of our remote-first workforce.

At Gemini, we strive to build diverse teams that reflect the people we want to empower through our products, and we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Equal Opportunity is the Law, and Gemini is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let a member of the People Team know.

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