Head of Design: Product & Systems (Hands-On Leader)

Hood L2; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

401k match

Parental leave

Paid vacation

Lunches and snacks

Commuter benefits

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, decreasing as the team scales. You will lead a small, senior team responsible for trading, staking, DeFi vaults, and wallets while shaping the org's design direction.

Qualifications

• Experience leading design in financial services or complex fintech flows.
• Built and owned a design system at scale.
• Hands-on in Figma and able to ship design work today.
• Deep UX thinking with data-informed decision making.
• Managed designers and elevated team performance.

Responsibilities

• Own surfaces directly and ship them at a high quality bar.
• Grow and coach each designer with clear next-level expectations.
• Represent design in strategy, roadmap, and architecture discussions.
• Join product and engineering at discovery; shape long-term roadmaps.
• Own the design system, tokens, patterns, governance, and adoption.
• Design the system across seven product areas and common primitives.
• Establish design and systems thinking as a company-wide practice.
• Set processes to move fast without sacrificing quality.

Skills

Design leadership

Design system ownership

Hands-on in Figma

UX thinking

Mentoring designers

Tools

Figma

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, decreasing as the team scales. You will lead a small, senior team responsible for trading, staking, DeFi vaults, and wallets while shaping the org's design direction.