Senior Product Designer

About Us:

Blockworks is an information platform that sits at the center of the crypto industry. We transform raw, complex data and facts into actionable research, trusted alpha-driven insights, and world-class events. The result is transparency and confidence. We enable investors, operators, and institutions to see past the noise, make better decisions, and drive the industry forward.

Who You Are:

You're an ambitious, independent designer who's excited to shape a category-defining product in the rapidly moving crypto industry. You move easily between detail-heavy data work and high-level concepting, and you're skilled at managing your time across shifting priorities. You plan ahead, anticipate what a project will need, and take ownership of unblocking yourself and your teammates when requirements shift or ambiguity shows up.

You have a strong design perspective and come to working sessions with fresh, creative ideas, but you're just as ready to champion a teammate's approach when it's the right one. You communicate clearly, have strong presentation and stakeholder management skills, and feel confident sharing work with a wide range of teammates at different stages of the design process. And because our users are crypto-native, you're comfortable meeting them where they are-often on X or Telegram.

Whether it's a protocol, app team, or blockchain project, you like hearing directly from the people we're building for and using that feedback to shape the product.

What You'll Do:

As the founding Senior Product Designer at Blockworks and the second hire on the product team, you'll play a huge role in shaping our entire product experience-from the website and gated research to, most importantly, our next-generation, data-heavy SaaS platform. This role is highly visible, highly impactful, and reports directly to the VP of Product.

You'll be involved in every part of the design process: talking to customers, exploring early concepts, mapping workflows, and partnering with Product and Engineering to bring thoughtful, polished designs into production. You'll help steer the product roadmap and set the bar for our design practice, owning our design system, component library, and the overall craft of design at Blockworks.

Every day will look a little different, but in general, you will do things like:

• Own end-to-end feature design: You'll work with Product and Engineering to break down ideas, define scope, and choose the right level of fidelity for each phase. You'll take new features from ideation into prototyping, user testing, and production.
• Communicate clear, well-reasoned design decisions: You'll use Figma to create crisp, thoughtful visuals that communicate your concepts and decisions to Product, Engineering, and Data & Advisory stakeholders. You'll stay close to Engineering through check-ins and QA to ensure your designs translate as intended.
• Lead qualitative and quantitative user research: You'll run interviews and usability tests and pair these insights with Mixpanel data and competitive analysis to inform new features and deepen understanding of existing ones.
• Bring customer empathy into UX decisions: You'll build relationships across the organization and with users, presenting ideas and leading sessions with cross-functional teams or customers to gather feedback, gain buy-in, and improve product thinking.
• Design clear, intuitive data-heavy workflows: You'll apply strong information architecture skills to simplify complex journeys, audit product surfaces for quick UX wins, and continually refine flows and conversion funnels across dashboards, apps, and the website.
• Set the foundation for our design practice: You'll establish design standards, processes, and rituals that support high-quality work today and scale as the team grows.
• Lead and evolve our design system: You'll own our component library and visual patterns, creating a cohesive, scalable design language as the product expands.
• Shape long-term product direction: You'll work closely with the VP of Product to translate customer insights, data, and business needs into a thoughtful design vision and roadmap.

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