Staff Product Designer - Advanced Trade
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As a Staff Product Designer on the Advanced Trade team within the Consumer & Business group, you'll shape the future of Coinbase's most sophisticated trading experiences and give millions of traders the speed, confidence, and control they expect from a best-in-class platform. You'll join a distributed design team working across desktop and mobile surfaces, from portfolio and charting to derivatives, spot margin, and other high-complexity workflows. In this role, you'll lead zero-to-one initiatives, drive high-impact improvements, and raise the overall quality and craft of the Advanced Trading experience.
What you'll do:
- Own end-to-end product design for key Advanced Trade experiences across web and mobile, from discovery and concepting through prototyping, specs, iteration, and launch quality.
- Lead high-ambiguity, zero-to-one and improvement initiatives across advanced trading surfaces, including derivatives, spot margin, structured products, portfolio, and modular UI evolution.
- Design scalable frameworks, patterns, and information architecture for complex, data-dense workflows so advanced traders can move with clarity in high-stakes moments.
- Raise the craft and quality bar across the Advanced Trading product surface, bringing UI and interaction quality to what best-in-class industry products deliver in 2026 and beyond.
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Research, and cross-functional peers to define problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and ship thoughtful, high-impact work.
- Coach and uplevel junior designers, contribute strong opinions across the design org, and extend your impact beyond a single project or feature area.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 8+ years of experience designing digital products, including meaningful time in complex, data-dense, workflow-heavy, or tools-oriented environments.
- Track record of operating autonomously with limited oversight in fast-moving, ambiguous environments, with demonstrated end-to-end product design range from concept through launch.
- Proven ability to lead through influence, shape direction, and coach less experienced designers without formal management responsibility.
- Demonstrated proficiency in Figma and modern prototyping workflows, with a portfolio showing visual design, interaction design, and systems thinking at a high level of craft.
- Effective cross-functional communication with Product and Engineering partners, with a track record of navigating tradeoffs and aligning stakeholders on complex, collaborative work.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
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