About the Role
- Product Designers at Anchorage Digital develop a deep understanding of the products we build and the problems we solve in order to create new patterns that meld traditional financial workflows with the world of crypto.
- We design solutions to questions with no precedent for institutional users, such as how to make the experience of sending funds secure but also highly efficient, how to balance the human need for privacy with the open and transparent nature of the blockchain, and how clients express their opinion in on-chain proposals with the newest digital assets.
- As a Member of Product Design, Digital Assets role, you'll join a team of intentional, collaborative, and relentlessly curious designers, shaping the future of finance by redefining how institutions interact with digital assets across custody, banking, trading, and settlement products.
What'll Be
- Pairs with Product and Engineering to do research and engage customers, a broad of solutions concepts and detailed designs and narrows down to the best solution using strong rationale.
- Is able to anticipate gaps and opportunities in customer understanding that drive real business impact and can think strategically about long term decisions.
- Is very proficient with sketching, flow diagrams, interface design tools and prototyping tools and use these regularly in their daily work.
- Designs connected, holistic and modular systems that help us move faster in the future.
- Leads large, strategic and complex projects or processes, or open-ended and ambiguous problems that peers, technical leads, and managers agree are significantly challenging or have a clear impact on the success of Anchorage.
- Applies conceptual thinking to understand the issues and its implications.
- Breaks down complex projects into simple initiatives and processes that can be effectively built and maintained by the team.
- Prioritizes work within the team or project, and helps others understand the value of what they are contributing to.
- Understands how their product impacts other products and departments, drives alignment with the broader Product, Design and Engineering team.
- Impacts business direction through the development and design of innovative services or products.
- Collaborate with multiple layers of stakeholders to turn the team strategy into a product vision.
- Promotes a shared understanding of the needs of Anchorage and strategic direction to rally teams.
- Develops and implements programs, projects and processes aligned with Anchorage strategic direction and needs.
- Communicates complex issues clearly and credibly across a wide range of audiences, and partners with other senior members to re-communicate vision, mission, and strategy as well as positive impacts for clients and for our roadmap.
- Highly effective communication skills.
- Writes and presents concisely and clearly, uses storytelling to communicate the work in an engaging way.
What You'll Bring
Have 8+ years of experience in designing world-class complex enterprise products.
Have designed for the crypto or finance space (i.e traditional banking, settlement solutions, asset custody).
Can define the strategy, and solve complex challenges across iOS and Web to turn simplicity out of complexity.
Have the ability to take ownership of the design process, think holistically, and articulate design decisions that deliver both user and business value.
Have a deep understanding of how to create usable, accessible modular designs that can scale.
Have excellent communication and proven ability to lead in cross-functional environments.
Have experience partnering with product managers and engineers to develop the strategy and rationale for product features.
Are able to give, receive feedback and guide other designers.
Have some special combination of the following: creative, humble, detail-oriented, self-aware, curious, thoughtful, and tenacious.
Have a compelling portfolio of work that demonstrates high-quality design work that also tells a story that you are a design thinker.
Nice to Have
Have experience in designing for institutional users in the digital finance space.
About Anchorage Digital
- Anchorage Digital a crypto that enables institutions to participate in digital through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure.
- Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.
- The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion.
- Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Falls, Dakota.
- The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem.
- As a diverse team of more than 600 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.