UI/UX Designer - Drift Labs｜Meet.jobs

About the jobAbout Drift Labs

Drift is a leading derivatives exchange on Solana. Our mission is to bring state-of-the-art trader-centric experience from centralized exchanges on-chain. We're a team of experienced traders and builders from DeFi and traditional finance working together to make this a reality.

Within five months of launching, we have:

 

Hit $10B in cumulative volume traded;

Achieved over $50M in trader open interest with $13M in collateral vault balance;

Launched 21 trading markets

 

The Opportunity

Drift is looking for a UI/UX designer to be a core member of our product team and will own the end-to-end experience on Drift.

UI/UX Designer Role and Responsibilities

 

Design, prototype, and build experiences that are simple and intuitive for DeFi users

Leverage a broad range of skills from product, interaction, and visual design skills to create elegant solutions to challenging problems

Navigate through ambiguity, taking conceptual ideas and turning them into valuable experiences

Design experiences that adapt to changing user needs across web and mobile

Partner with cross-functional teams from ideation to launch, ensuring the feasibility of your designs and a high quality implementation

Own the Drift Design System and ensure cohesive branding with the marketing team

 

Qualifications

 

Curiosity and willingness to understand the core mechanics of our product and DeFi

Proven ability to collaboratively iterate on design concepts and deliver designs in a fast-paced environment

Proven ability to take complex concepts and simplify them into an intuitive experience for customers

A strong eye for aesthetics, layout, information architecture, typography, and iconography and how these elements impact product usage

Prototyping skills to demonstrate how a design works

Strong communication skills — be able to clearly articulate design decisions and considerations

Experience with design and prototyping tools (e.g. Figma, Adobe, Framer, etc.)

 

Nice to Have

 

Understanding of perpetual futures, options, margin trading and derivatives products.

Demonstrated experience designing for DeFi, trading or financial related products

Experience designing for responsive web and mobile

An understanding of how front-end web technologies may impact your decisions — these technologies include HTML, CSS, JS/TS, and React

 

Perks

 

Remote first - work from anywhere

International team meets

Stipend for laptop

 

Drift is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. All aspects of employment are based on merit, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

To apply, fill out this application form.