Product Designer

The role

You will own the product layer across Pod Network's trading interfaces, explorers, onboarding, wallets, leaderboards and dashboards. You will talk to users, decide what to build, and prototype ideas far enough for the team to finish them.

What you will do

• Own Pod Network's product surfaces, from first idea through launch.
• Talk to traders, learn how they use the product, and decide what is worth building.
• Prototype quickly using AI tools, no-code, or rough builds.
• Set the design direction, make first mockups, and give the external design team a strong starting point.
• Make small changes in the codebase and tweak the experience.
• Find rough edges in how people use Pod and fix or flag them.
• Work with protocol and backend engineers on what the product needs from the API and SDK.
• Set the bar for what a good product feels like.

Required qualifications

• Strong product sense.
• An eye for design, able to produce first mockups and a clear direction.
• Comfortable working in a codebase and prototyping, even without shipping production features.
• Understanding of trading products and how people use them.
• AI-native, using AI tools across research, prototyping, design and code.
• A track record of shipping real products that real people use.
• Some familiarity with TypeScript and React helps.

Nice to have

• Built a trading or financial app, especially one with live data.
• Crypto or DeFi experience.
• Product management experience.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• The whole product layer of a novel layer-1 to own.
• A small, senior team that ships fast.
• Travel and visibility in the crypto community.

About the company

Pod Network is building a Layer-1 for open markets, where orders clear in frequent batch auctions so the best price wins. Anyone can launch a market, and it is backed by a16z crypto, 1kx, BBF and Lemniscap.