Founding Designer - Crypto

Career Renew; Toronto; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology recruitment firm is seeking a remote Founding Designer to create user-centric trading interfaces in the crypto space. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of design experience and a strong understanding of how design impacts trading. This role offers competitive compensation, including equity, and the chance to contribute to innovative products for millions of users.

Benefits

Highly competitive compensation

Equity in a high-potential startup

Catered meals daily

Qualifications

• 5+ years of design experience with a focus on crypto.
• Experience with design systems or component libraries.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the product experience and design of trading interfaces.
• Build and maintain a rigorous design system.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams.

Skills

Design experience

Expertise in crypto

Prototyping in Figma

Visual and interaction design

Storytelling skills

Job description

Overview

Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Founding Designer - Crypto - this is a fully remote role for candidates who can work EST hours.

We are building the next generation of DeFi trading powered by Hyperliquid. Our mission is to democratize access to global financial markets, leveraging the power of decentralised technologies. We are the the largest builder code product on Hyperliquid and have processed north of $50B in cumulative trading volume and hit 8 figures in revenue in the past year.

We are a small, highly technical team of strong individual contributors, passionate about free markets and building ambitious systems from the ground up. We value autonomy, agency, and rapid execution. Our culture is low-process, high-trust, and focused on results—ideal for self-starters who thrive in ambiguous, 0-to-1 environments. We are looking to hire a Founding Designer to push the boundaries on interfaces built for traders. You will operate with autonomy and be responsible for designing interfaces that scale to millions of traders and that process billions of dollars in volumes daily.

What you will do

• Own the product experience and design of delightful, pixel-perfect, and performant trading interfaces that feel magical to use.
• Help deliver and refine clear storytelling around product needs and opportunities
• Build and maintain a rigorous, scalable design system that enables rapid iteration without sacrificing quality.
• Prototype, experiment, and design high-fidelity UI / UX that balances creativity with real-time performance requirements.
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to bring new trading workflows from idea → prototype → production at breakneck speed.

What you bring

• 5+ years of design experience, with deep expertise in crypto and a vision for how design can shape innovative, user-centric product experiences in the space.
• Mastery over your craft and deep obsession for quality, function & form.
• Worked on design systems or component libraries at scale.
• Experience with prototyping in Figma (and beyond with tools like AI, HTML / CSS, Origami).
• Proven track record of crafting micro-interactions, animations, and transitions that feel effortless but are crafted with rigor.
• Strong intuition for visual and interaction design — typography, spacing, color, layout, rhythm, and motion all matter to you.
• Strong storytelling, presentation, communication skills.
• High agency, thrive in ambiguous environments, and obsessed with shipping interfaces that delight traders at scale

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation and equity in a high potential startup (+ uncapped bonuses - we wan’t the absolute best and will pay accordingly)
• Play a direct role in building 0->
• 1 products and scaling them to millions of users
• Healthy, catered meals daily
• Compensation & Package
• Base Salary + Equity (+uncapped bonuses)