The vacancy is well-structured with clear responsibilities and requirements, though compensation details could be improved.
Job description
Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.”
Responsibilities
### What you’ll be doing
- 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 areas such as derivatives, spot margin, structured products, portfolio, and modular UI evolution.
- Raise the craft and quality bar across the Advanced Trading product surface, helping bring our UI and interaction quality up to what best-in-class industry products are expected to deliver in 2026 and beyond.
- Design scalable frameworks, patterns, and information architecture for complex, data-dense workflows so advanced traders can move with clarity in high-stakes moments.
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Research, and cross-functional peers to define problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and ship thoughtful, high-impact work.
- Lead through influence by coaching and upleveling more junior designers, contributing strong opinions, and extending your impact beyond a single project or feature area.
Requirements
### What we look for in you
- 8+ years of experience designing digital products, including meaningful time in complex, data-dense, workflow-heavy, or tools-oriented environments.
- Broad end-to-end product design range and a track record of operating autonomously with limited oversight in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
- Strong visual design, interaction design, systems thinking, and prototyping craft; able to raise the quality bar for the broader team.
- Proven ability to lead through influence, shape direction, and coach less experienced designers without formal management responsibility.
- Excellent cross-functional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner effectively with Product and Engineering on highly collaborative work.
- Deep fluency in Figma and modern prototyping workflows.
- Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots in day-to-day workflows, applying sound judgment and human-in-the-loop practices to improve quality and efficiency.
Conditions
### What Coinbase offers
- Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
- Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $207,485 — $244,100 USD.
About Coinbase
Coinbase Global, Inc. is an American cryptocurrency exchange platform that enables users to buy, sell, trade, store, stake, and transfer cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. It serves over 100 million users worldwide, operates in more than 100 countries, and provides infrastructure for onchain activities while advocating for crypto regulations.