Staff Product Designer

The role

The Staff Product Designer will define and own the end-to-end developer experience for the Walrus Protocol. You will lead discovery, design complex technical workflows, and build the Walrus design system.

What you will do

• Own the Walrus product experience and evolve developer workflows.
• Lead discovery with product and engineering to frame problems.
• Conduct developer interviews and usability tests.
• Design complex technical workflows including flows, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Influence product direction and challenge assumptions.
• Build and maintain the Walrus design system.
• Benchmark comparable developer and infrastructure products.
• Partner with engineering through implementation and design QA.
• Establish design standards and practices.

Required qualifications

• 8-10 years of product design experience.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex technical products.
• Portfolio demonstrating ownership of shipped developer tools, cloud/infrastructure products, consoles, dashboards, or similarly complex technical products.
• Ability to simplify technically sophisticated workflows.
• Strong interaction-design skills across data-heavy interfaces, tables, configuration, complex states, progressive disclosure, permissions, errors, and high-consequence actions.
• Experience independently identifying and framing product problems.
• Track record of influencing product strategy and roadmap decisions through design.
• Strong qualitative research instincts and experience with user research and usability testing.
• Experience creating or significantly evolving design systems and reusable interaction patterns.
• Strong partnership with engineering and involvement through implementation and design QA.
• Excellent communication skills and confidence to disagree constructively with senior partners.
• Comfort operating with significant autonomy in an ambiguous, rapidly evolving technical environment.

About the company

Walrus Foundation is creating the Walrus Protocol, a Verifiable Data Platform for AI Builders. Walrus is infrastructure for developers.