Bitgo
Head of Design, Product Design
New York, United States. Posted 6 days ago
The role
You will manage and mentor a senior design team while acting as a player-coach by performing hands-on design work. You will own the design system, influence business strategy with the Chief Product Officer, and lead the shift toward becoming a design-led company.
What you will do
- Perform hands-on design work and ship surfaces
- Manage and mentor the design team
- Own the design system and component library end to end
- Represent design in strategy, roadmap, and architecture conversations
- Join product and engineering at the discovery stage
- Design system primitives including accounts, wallets, assets, entitlements, and approvals
- Establish UX and systems thinking practices across the organization
- Set processes for critique, documentation, and design reviews
- Collaborate with engineering on technical constraints and trade-offs
- Represent BitGo design externally with clients and partners
Required qualifications
- Experience leading design in financial services
- Built and owned a design system at scale
- Hands-on in Figma
- Deep in UX with strong product thinking and logical reasoning
- Managed designers
- Technically literate with comfort in APIs, data models, and engineering trade-offs
- Direct communicator
Nice to have
- Digital assets, or another domain of genuinely complex technical flows
- Regulated environments: broker-dealer, trust company, bank, or qualified custodian
- Experience with complex permissioning, approval workflows, or multi-entity account structures
- Design leadership at a company that went through the same shift you would lead here
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, bonus, and stock options
- 100% company-paid health insurance for employee, partner, and dependents
- Up to 4% 401k company match
- Paid parental leave
- Paid vacation
- Free commuter/parking pass
- Free custom lunches and snacks
- Computer equipment and workplace furniture
About the company
BitGo is a digital asset infrastructure company delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, stablecoins, and settlement services. It serves thousands of institutions and millions of investors worldwide.