Lead Product Designer: Blockchain & AI Innovation

Stellar Development Foundation; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive health coverage

Flexible time off

Parental leave

Gym reimbursement

401K with 4% match

Commuter benefits

HSA employer contributions

L&D budget

Company retreats

Job summary

Stellar Development Foundation in San Francisco seeks a Lead Product Designer to guide design across SDF’s products and raise the bar on craft. This player-coach role includes mentoring another designer while remaining a world-class individual contributor on our most important work.

You will set the design vision, champion a user-centered approach, and leverage AI tools to multiply what a small team can deliver—shifting from concept to high-fidelity, shippable design.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product design experience with a strong portfolio of shipped, end-to-end work.
• Exceptional visual and interaction design skills and a critical eye for detail.
• Experience managing or mentoring other designers (formal management a plus).
• Demonstrated use of AI tools to accelerate and elevate design work.
• Expert knowledge of modern design tools (Figma, Framer, etc.) and experience building and scaling design systems.
• Strong communication; you can present, influence, and align stakeholders at all levels.
• A strong understanding of user-centered design, with experience in research and usability testing.

Responsibilities

• In your first 30 days: ramp on our products, design system, and roadmap; partner with PMs and engineers; and start contributing directly to active design work.
• Within 90 days: own the design vision for key product areas, establish how the team works (including AI-assisted workflows), and support the growth of the designer you manage.
• Set and champion a clear product design vision aligned with company goals and brand values.
• Lead by example as our most senior designer — contributing directly to our most important projects with exceptional visual and interaction craft.
• Manage, mentor, and grow another product designer; provide thoughtful feedback and career development.
• Maintain and scale our design system to ensure consistency and speed across products.
• Leverage AI design and prototyping tools to increase the team’s leverage and the quality and velocity of what you ship.
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering to ship pixel-perfect, user-centered experiences.
• Conduct user research and usability testing to validate decisions, and champion user-centered design across the organization.

Skills

Product design

Mentoring

AI tools

Figma

Framer

Communication

Tools

Figma

Framer

AI design tools

Job description

Stellar Development Foundation in San Francisco seeks a Lead Product Designer to guide design across SDF’s products and raise the bar on craft. This player-coach role includes mentoring another designer while remaining a world-class individual contributor on our most important work.

You will set the design vision, champion a user-centered approach, and leverage AI tools to multiply what a small team can deliver—shifting from concept to high-fidelity, shippable design.