About the Role
Symbiotic is building the infrastructure for collateral markets, enabling capital to secure financial obligations, remain productive, and be enforced by code. We are enabling new categories of neofinance applications by changing the economics of onchain collateral. As institutional capital moves onchain, Symbiotic is positioned to become the coordination layer connecting capital and risk across the onchain economy.
Responsibilities
- Lead the product design function, collaborating closely with Leadership, Engineering, Product, and Marketing teams.
- Design the full user journey for Symbiotic's product stack, making onchain complexity legible and optimizing for clean user flows.
- Surface risk, exposure, and returns so users understand their commitments and the impact of changing conditions.
- Conduct user research, interviewing users and observing their behavior to inform concrete feature scopes for engineering.
- Partner closely with Engineering to define problems, weigh tradeoffs, and design within protocol constraints.
Requirements
- Deep on-chain fluency, including wallets, approvals, signing, gas, transaction lifecycle, and chain latency, with a working understanding of their design constraints.
- Shipped a DeFi product to real users.
- A portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product work, showcasing systems-level thinking and attention to detail.
- Proven ability to operate autonomously in fast-moving, ambiguous environments with limited oversight.
- Comfortable working without established scaffolding, such as a dedicated design team, an existing design system, or a queue of work.
- Proactive in conducting user research.
- Excellent cross-functional communication skills, enabling close partnership with Engineering and the ability to defend positions under scrutiny.
- Deep fluency in Figma and modern prototyping workflows.
Skills
- Figma
- Prototyping
About the Company
- Symbiotic is the infrastructure beneath collateral markets, where capital can secure financial obligations, remain productive, and be enforced by code.
- By changing the economics of onchain collateral, Symbiotic enables new categories of neofinance applications that were previously impossible to build - including credit, insurance, RWA liquidity, and more.
- As institutional capital increasingly moves onchain, Symbiotic is positioned to become the coordination layer connecting capital and risk across the onchain economy.
- Backed by Paradigm, Pantera, Cyber.fund, and Coinbase Ventures, we power 80+ vaults, 74,000+ active stakers, and 111 operators - with Chainlink, Nexus Mutual, and Cap Labs among the teams live in production.
- We’re a tight-knit team of experienced builders working at the forefront of financial infrastructure.
- Our backgrounds span high-growth tech start-ups, leading crypto companies, major banks, insurers, and financial institutions.
- We work with ownership, a high bar for craft, and the urgency of an early-stage company - in an environment where people are trusted to take initiative and supported to do their best work.
- We’re looking for talented professionals to join us at a defining moment, as Symbiotic helps shape the next generation of onchain finance.
