Staff Product Designer

SOLANA FOUNDATION; New York (NY); On-site; USD 250,000 - 315,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

401(k) match

Group term life insurance

Flexible time off

Annual offsites

Job summary

fomo in NYC is seeking a Staff Product Designer to own end-to-end product design for multiple product lines including spot trading, tokenized equities, and perps. You will set design direction with founders, product, and engineering, and shape the systems, patterns, and standards that surface is built on.

This is a hands-on IC role: you’ll be in Figma and prototypes daily alongside frontend engineers. This role is in-person in NYC with a strong in-person culture and a spacious SoHo office.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product design with staff or lead level experience.
• Strong portfolio showing craft and strategic impact.
• Ability to set direction for a product or platform.
• Ability to influence founders and leaders without formal authority.
• Excellent prototyping skills and willingness to iterate with AI tools.
• Comfort with autonomy in a small, flat team and helping it grow.
• Experience designing complex consumer financial products with real-time data.
• Crypto trading experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the design of a full product line across mobile and web from problem framing to shipped product.
• Set design direction with founders and engineering: define what to build and why.
• Keep multiple products coherent so users move between them without relearning.
• Lead the fomo design system architecture for core patterns and standards.
• Prototype fast to test interactions, partnering with frontend engineers through implementation.
• Raise the craft bar through critique and clear design principles.
• Help build the design team: hiring, interviewing, onboarding, and mentoring.
• Push AI and new tooling to design and ship faster.

Skills

Product design leadership

Portfolio with strategy impact

Design system ownership

Influencing without authority

Prototyping skills

Autonomy and ownership

Complex fintech interfaces

Crypto trading experience

Tools

Figma

Prototype tooling

Job description

About fomo

• fomo is a trading app for the rest of us. Sign up in seconds and start trading right away, with no prior experience needed. Our social features are actually useful: follow top traders, see their full portfolios and trades, and find opportunities early. Under the hood, we deliver best-in-class execution and data for experienced traders.

• In just over a year, fomo has onboarded over 3.4 million users who have collectively done over $28 billion in trading volume.

• fomo has made over $100M of revenue since launching in May 2025, and has raised ~$100M from T1 investors including Benchmark, Index Ventures, and Union Square Ventures.

• https://fomo.family/

• https://x.com/fomo

About the role

fomo is growing from one product into three: spot trading, tokenized equities, and perps. We're looking for a Staff Product Designer to help make all of it feel like one fast, intuitive, unmistakably fomo experience.

You'll own the design of an entire product line end to end, from deciding what we should build to the details of what ships. You'll set design direction alongside our founders, product, and engineering, and you'll shape the systems, patterns, and standards that every surface is built on. This is a hands-on IC role: you'll still be in Figma and in prototypes every day, working side by side with our frontend engineers.

This role is in-person in NYC. We have a strong in-person culture and a new, spacious office in SoHo.

What you'll do

• Own the design of a full product line (for example perps or tokenized equities) across mobile and web, from problem framing and strategy to shipped product

• Set design direction with the founders and engineering: turn ambiguous ideas into a clear point of view on what to build, why, and in what order

• Keep spot, tokenized equities, and perps coherent, so users move between them without relearning anything

• Lead the architecture of the fomo design system: the core patterns for trading, real-time data, charts, and social, and the standards the whole team builds on

• Prototype fast and at high fidelity to test interactions and flows before we commit, and partner with frontend engineers through implementation until the details are right

• Raise the craft bar across the team through critique, clear design principles, and your own work

• Help build the design team as we grow: shape how we hire, interview, and onboard designers, and mentor the designers who join

• Push how we use AI and new tooling to design and ship faster

Ideal candidate

• 8+ years of product design experience, including time operating at staff or lead level, or as an early designer who owned a product from 0 to 1

• A portfolio that shows both exceptional craft and strategic impact: products you shaped, not just screens you delivered, with the outcomes they drove

• Experience setting direction for a whole product or platform, and building or evolving a design system that others adopted

• Track record of influencing founders, product, and engineering leaders without formal authority

• Strong prototyping skills, and comfort iterating and shipping with AI and new tools

• Thrives with autonomy and ownership on a small, flat team, and is energized by helping it grow

• Experience designing complex consumer financial products (trading, investing, payments, or crypto), especially real-time and data-dense interfaces, is a big plus

• Personal crypto trading experience is a plus. Everyone on our team trades, and it's what lets our product stand out amongst the competition.

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary range: $250,000 to $315,000

• Competitive cash compensation and equity

• Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents; including tax savings benefits such as HSAs and FSAs

• 401(k) with match

• Group term life insurance

• Flexible time off

• Annual company offsites

Equal opportunity

fomo is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the hiring process, please let us know.