Sr. UI/UX Designer
About Paxos:
Paxos' mission is to modernize finance by mobilizing assets at the speed of the internet.
Paxos is building a future where all assets-- from money to gold to securities--will be digitized and move instantaneously, 24/7. Settlement risk will cease to exist, so trillions of dollars of trapped capital can go to work in a global, frictionless economy.
Today, as the first regulated Trust company with blockchain expertise, Paxos is uniquely positioned to mobilize and custody them digitally.
Visit www.paxos.com for more information on Paxos and its institutional-grade products like Paxos Standard token and Paxos Confirmation Service for precious metals. Visit www.itBit.com for the crypto-asset exchange and related services including escrow, custody and OTC trading.
Outcomes:
- User experience and user interface design: Define intuitive user’s journey through a series of complex workflows. Success is measured by ease of navigation by customers and design-related engagement metrics.
- Agile/Lean User Discovery: Partner with the Product Manager to iteratively discover and create prototypes that ultimately improve product market fit. Success is measured by the quality and quantity of valuable client feedback generated through your prototypes.
- Flexible, Fast, and Minimal Delivery: Conceive and execute a framework to prioritize design elements that can be delivered fast and will generate the most value to customers. Success is measured by the extent to which useful discovery reduces churn with engineering as well your resourcefulness in adapting prototype designs to real-world delivery constraints.
How to achieve the Outcomes:
Functional acumen required:
- Mastery of modern UX/UI design principles especially as applied to enterprise software products.
- Mastery of software design tools such as Sketch, Adobe Suite etc. is required.
- Understanding lean/agile best practices especially as applied to design within a startup product development team, and the designer’s role in the team’s effort to iteratively improve product market fit is desired.
- Familiarity with software front-end frameworks, their characteristics and in what scenarios they should be applied is desired.
Shared commitment to excellence:
- Have a very high bar for what is ideal product design. You recognize excellent design and are a passionate student of it. You aspire to achieve this excellence in your own work.
- You embrace real-world constraints and have a bias for shipping working designs that are good enough.
- You teach the team the importance of good design and you make sure that the team understands the impact of design compromises when they are considered. You help keep the bar for good design high for the entire team.
Search for the truth:
- Be able to keep your biases about the way you’ve designed products in the past aside. Take a first principles approach to making design decisions that is grounded in the users, business and mission of the company.
- Recognize the importance of data in understanding user behavior and making design decisions. You champion implementing data systems that efficiently inform design.
- Approach design problems with an experimenter’s mind. Be willing to try and experiment with different approaches. You challenge your own assumptions when presented with new data.
- Recognize, champion and advance creative solutions to sticky problems regardless of where or who they come from.
Be an owner:
- Focused on outcomes, not inputs or outputs
- You take an expansive view of what is “product design” and reach out of your own domain of expertise and comfort in order to collaborate with your partners in Engineering and Product. You influence them to appropriately consider design implications of their decisions.
Real time candor:
- Do not hesitate to voice ‘inconvenient truths’ at the right time, in front of the right audience, while making product or user facing decisions. Doing so in a way that leads to a better solution is paramount, even if it is inconvenient for others in the moment.
- Build strong trust with cross-functional partners, particularly in engineering and the product, by disagreeing with them in an open and caring way when required, but working in earnest to activate a decision that has been made even if it goes against what you wanted to do.
Desired Experience:
- At least 5 years' experience working on customer-facing products
- A strong enterprise software design background with progressive growth in role scope that has led to designing complex products is needed.
- Experience working in highly ambiguous and fast-paced environments such as a Product-led tech startup is desirable.
- Familiarity with lean and agile ideologies and management practices is desirable.
Paxos is an equal opportunity employer. It does not discriminate on the basis of sex, age, color, race, religion, marital status, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical and mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.