About Digital Asset
Digital Asset is at the forefront of innovation in blockchain technology. As the industry-leading software company, we specialize in creating and deploying sophisticated blockchain applications that are revolutionizing the way businesses operate. Our pioneering creation, Daml, stands as the backbone of smart contract platforms on the Canton Network.
Today, we work along with some of the largest companies in the world to harness the transformative power of smart contracts – a component of the distributed ledger technology (DLT) stack – to change the way applications are developed, deployed, and used to solve real-world business challenges.
Digital Asset (DA) is a global company with offices in New York, London, Budapest, Zurich, Hong Kong, and Sydney.
As we grow our team, we aim to maintain the grounded, dynamic, collaborative, and pragmatic approach that has defined our efforts. If you want to help develop and deliver novel solutions with enormous impact, this opportunity may be for you!
The successful candidate will be based in the NEW YORK TRISTATE AREA, with the ability to come to our New York City Headquarters on a flexible, hybrid schedule.
Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity to lead the product design team at Digital Asset, tasked with bringing a world class experience to our customers as they bring our vision of creating the Global Economic Network to life. Using your UX/UI skills, you will shape the product-wide design practice and processes as the team’s work directly influences every aspect of our customer’s and user’s experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Promote the use of the whole design methodology throughout all product and engineering teams.
- Work cross-functionally, building relationships within marketing, product management, engineering and technical enablement to represent product design company-wide and support all functions to incorporate design practices into their culture.
- Collaborate and influence the product design team that supports product delivery teams including product managers, engineers, technical writers and instructional designers to understand user needs and deliver high-quality user-centered experiences.
- Contribute your own visual, user experience, and developer experience design skills to product initiatives to incorporate design methodology and practices into all aspects of product delivery.
- Own and prioritize the design backlog.
Key Criteria
- 5+ years experience as a designer of software products.
- A portfolio demonstrating understanding:
- the product design process and ability to deliver high quality experiences
- web design and front-end development best practices including but not limited to: usability, accessibility and responsive design
- collecting and interpreting qualitative and quantitative feedback
- user experience design
- visual design
- design research
- Ability to learn and work with complex systems and highly technical subject matter.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.
- Fluency with Figma and other prototyping tools.
- Previous experience leading a design practice or team.
- Experience with developer products and developer experience.
- Prior B2B and SaaS/PaaS product design experience.
- Prior experience in financial services a PLUS.
- Position is based in our New York City headquarters.
The estimated salary range for this role, based in our New York City office, is $140,000 to $155,000. The range may vary if based outside the New York tri-state area (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut). Base salaries are determined during our interview process, during which we assess the candidate's experience, skills and capabilities against internal peers and the scope and responsibilities of the position.
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This is a rare opportunity to help define an industry and join a dynamic team of technology innovators.
Digital Asset is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, citizenship status, veteran status or any other basis protected by applicable law. If and as required by applicable law, all persons hired to work at Digital Asset will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the location for which they have an offer to work and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification documents upon hire. Applicants with disabilities who require accommodation should contact recruiting@digitalasset.com.
As part of our commitment to equal opportunity, Digital Asset believes that all employees should receive equal pay for equal work and is committed to this principle in its pay structure. DA also offers family-friendly benefits in addition to flexible work arrangements.
