Design Leader & Systems Architect (Onsite PA)

BitGo; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Stock options

Health insurance

Paid parental leave

Commuter benefit

Job summary

BitGo in Palo Alto is seeking a design leader who still designs. You will manage and mentor the design team, own the design system, and sit next to the Chief Product Officer on business strategy. This is a player-coach role with roughly 50% hands-on IC work to start.

You will lead a small, senior team across trading, DeFi vaults, wallets, and financing, shaping discovery, system design, and adoption. You will push for cross-functional collaboration and strengthen design’s standing while building

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading design at scale, preferably in financial services or complex tech.
• Experience building and owning a design system.
• Hands-on design experience and ability to critique craft in reviews.

Responsibilities

• Own surfaces directly and ship them with high quality.
• Grow and mentor designers, defining what the next level requires.
• Represent design in strategy, roadmap, and architecture discussions.
• Join product and engineering early in discovery, not at handoff.
• Own the design system, tokens, patterns, governance, and adoption.

Skills

Leadership

Design system

Hands-on design

Systems thinking

UX strategy

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Critique and feedback

Talent development

Tools

Figma

Design tooling

Prototyping

Job description

BitGo in Palo Alto is seeking a design leader who still designs. You will manage and mentor the design team, own the design system, and sit next to the Chief Product Officer on business strategy. This is a player-coach role with roughly 50% hands-on IC work to start.

You will lead a small, senior team across trading, DeFi vaults, wallets, and financing, shaping discovery, system design, and adoption. You will push for cross-functional collaboration and strengthen design’s standing while building