Head of Design & Design Systems

BitGo; New York (NY); On-site; USD 210,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Stock options

Health insurance

401k company match

Paid parental leave

Paid vacation

Free commuter/parking

Free lunches and snacks

Equipment to suit needs

Job summary

BitGo, a digital asset infrastructure company in New York, seeks a design leader who still designs. You will mentor the team, own the design system, and sit with the Chief Product Officer on business strategy.

This is a player-coach role with ~50% hands-on work to start, growing as the team scales. You will lead a senior, self-sufficient design team responsible for trading, staking, DeFi vaults, wallets, and financing surfaces.

Qualifications

• Experience leading design in financial services or similarly complex tech flows.
• Built and owned a design system at scale.
• Hands-on design work in current products and optics.
• Deep UX thinking with data-driven decisions.
• Managed designers and grew team capability.

Responsibilities

• Own surfaces directly and ship them to the design quality bar.
• Invest in each designer's growth and define what next level requires.
• Amplify design's standing in strategy, roadmap, and architecture conversations.
• Join product and engineering early in discovery to shape direction.
• Own the design system and component library end-to-end across product teams.
• Shape systems design across seven product areas with shared primitives.
• Establish UX and systems thinking as a company-wide practice.
• Set processes for fast, quality work: critique, documentation, reviews, and clean handoffs.
• Be the face of design internally and externally for BitGo.

Skills

Design leadership

Design system ownership

Hands-on in Figma

Product thinking

UX depth

People management

Technical literacy

Direct communication

Tools

Figma

Job description

BitGo, a digital asset infrastructure company in New York, seeks a design leader who still designs. You will mentor the team, own the design system, and sit with the Chief Product Officer on business strategy.

This is a player-coach role with ~50% hands-on work to start, growing as the team scales. You will lead a senior, self-sufficient design team responsible for trading, staking, DeFi vaults, wallets, and financing surfaces.