Senior Product Designer — Developer Portal & Tooling

Coinbase, Inc.; Salem (OR); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase seeks a Senior Product Designer on the Developer Foundations team to shape the end-to-end experience for developers building on Coinbase. This role focuses on the Developer Portal, including documentation, API dashboards, and onboarding flows, turning complex workflows into clear, intuitive experiences.

The ideal candidate will own cross-surface design, contribute to a scalable design system, and partner with product, engineering, and developer relations to remove friction and drive

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design experience.
• Experience designing developer tools or technical platforms.
• Proven ability to own multi-surface product design shipped to production.
• Portfolio showing systematic, scalable design thinking.
• Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system.
• Strong proficiency in Figma for design delivery and prototyping.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design for the Developer Portal, spanning documentation, API dashboards, onboarding flows, and self-service tooling.
• Lead design system contributions specific to developer-facing surfaces, ensuring consistency and scalability across the Portal experience.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Developer Relations to identify friction points in the developer journey and ship high-impact improvements.
• Drive user research and usability testing with external developers to validate design decisions and uncover unmet needs.
• Shape how AI-powered features surface within the Portal, including intelligent search, contextual guidance, and code generation experiences.
• Build and maintain design specs, prototypes, and interaction patterns in Figma that serve as the source of truth for engineering delivery.

Skills

End-to-end design

Design systems

User research

AI in design

Prototyping

Tools

Figma

Job description

Coinbase seeks a Senior Product Designer on the Developer Foundations team to shape the end-to-end experience for developers building on Coinbase. This role focuses on the Developer Portal, including documentation, API dashboards, and onboarding flows, turning complex workflows into clear, intuitive experiences.

The ideal candidate will own cross-surface design, contribute to a scalable design system, and partner with product, engineering, and developer relations to remove friction and drive