Product Design Lead
Job Description
About us
At Lightcurve, we’re on a mission to ignite financial freedom and true ownership for people everywhere. Each member of our team takes ownership and contributes a unique piece to our journey into the exciting realm of web3. Together, we craft more than just meaningful products and services—we create a lasting tangible impact in the real world.
We want you to join our search for greatness at the edge of what is technologically possible. Are you tired of the ordinary? Crave a challenge that sparks passion and purpose? We’d love to have you apply!
The role you’re applying for
We are cooking up several big new initiatives, one of which is a suite of products that will completely revolutionize how people experience and engage with web3.
We’re looking for a Product Design Lead with a strong background in creating outstanding user experiences and a passion for web3 to join the team. This means getting in on the ground floor and working at a “startup within a startup” to build something truly innovative and bring it to market. This role will have a tremendous impact on the company and the evolving web3 landscape.
What you’ll be doing
- Lead multiple exciting projects while collaborating with the team on all levels of the product development process, from early needs discovery, to roadmapping, design and delivery.
- Coach and mentor other product designers to maximize the potential of our design team.
- Contribute hands-on to the design of delightful end-to-end flows that remove technical complexities and provide users with simple and elegant experiences.
- Cultivate a healthy design process for the team, including establishing and maintaining a robust design system, and be a key contributor to product strategy.
- Represent the design perspective in cross-functional meetings, advocating for our users and championing human-centric design thinking.
- Capture insights from user interviews, usability tests, and other forms of user research to make data-informed design decisions.
What we’re looking for
- 8+ years of product design experience, including for B2C and B2B
- 2+ years leading, coaching and mentoring product designers
- Experience with delivering 0-1 products from concept stages to launch and beyond
- Experience with designing native mobile products
- Demonstrated experience in web3/crypto
Extra credit
- Experience with motion design/animation
- Experience in fintech
Don’t think you match all of the above criteria exactly? No worries! We need exceptional souls with diverse backgrounds to make our vision a reality—we want to hear your story!
We got you covered
In addition to working with a world class team on one of the most exciting areas of tech today, you’ll also enjoy full flexibility and work-life balance. Work from our Berlin office or fully remote (although you’ll need some overlap with European working hours). We also offer competitive compensation packages including attractive “crypto-native” bonuses, a generous personal learning and development budget, career development plans, and team retreats to fuel your web3 curiosity.
Company Overview
Lightcurve is a leading blockchain studio in Berlin. For 7 years our team from 30+ different countries has been developing Lisk - a L1 enabling JavaScript developers to build their own blockchain - for our client, the Lisk Foundation, based in Switzerland.
Now, the Lisk Foundation is ready to take another step forward to fulfill their vision of a world in which everyone is onchain, and we are on-board! It’s about a new product, a radically new user-experience with previously unseen innovations, to get even non-technical people onchain.