Staff Product Designer, OpenSea
$148.8-275k
Salary dependent on location and is benchmarked based on US rates
Decentralised NFT marketplace
Job no longer available
Decentralised NFT marketplace
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$148.8-275k
Salary dependent on location and is benchmarked based on US rates
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To shape an accessible and open digital economy for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a highly skilled, creative and self-driven Staff Product Designer to join OpenSea’s small but mighty design team
- If you’re energized by ownership, collaboration, and the chance to design for millions of users in a fast-evolving space, we’d love to meet you
- 7+ years of product design experience, across both consumer and platform-facing products
- Demonstrated ability to own complex, ambiguous problem spaces and turn them into elegant, intuitive solutions
- Strong product sense—comfortable thinking strategically and operating without the structure of a large product org
- Strong experience designing mobile-first products, with a deep understanding of what makes for an intuitive, polished mobile experience
- Exceptional visual design and interaction design skills, with a portfolio that demonstrates strong aesthetic judgement, systems thinking, and meticulous attention to detail
- Experience building, scaling, or maintaining design systems, component libraries, or other frameworks that improve product quality, consistency, and team velocity
- Experience collaborating closely with engineers to ship high-quality, technically informed designs
- Experience leveraging AI tools and workflows to improve design quality, efficiency, and team effectiveness
- Breadth across UI, UX, motion & interaction, with particular strength in visual design, craft, and aesthetic execution
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional partners
- If you don't think you meet all of the criteria above but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone who is excited to join the team
What the job involves
- In this role, you’ll help define the future of how people discover, trade, and interact with digital assets—working closely with engineers and fellow designers to bring clarity and craft to complex problems
- Design plays a central role in shaping product direction and strategy, so this position is ideal for someone who combines strong product thinking with exceptional visual craft
- Beyond designing great products, you'll help evolve the systems, workflows, and AI-enabled practices that make the entire team more effective builders
- Lead design initiatives from concept through launch, collaborating closely with engineers and other designers to define and deliver high-quality user experiences
- Channel design thinking into our product development process, ensuring we’re solving real user problems with consistency and simplicity
- Hone open-ended product ideas into actionable design directions through research, prototyping, and iteration
- Create end-to-end experiences across mobile and web, balancing user needs, technical feasibility, and business goals while maintaining a high bar for visual quality, polish, and brand expression
- Contribute to and evolve our design system to raise quality, consistency, and efficiency across all OpenSea surfaces while helping designers and engineers build more effectively through emerging AI-powered tools and practices
- Explore and champion new design and AI-enabled workflows that improve team effectiveness and expand what's possible for product development
- Communicate design rationale clearly and effectively across disciplines, helping align teams around shared goals
- Help shape the design culture at OpenSea by modeling strong craft, collaboration, and curiosity
Our take
OpenSea is a peer-to-peer digital marketplace for NFTs or uniquely identifiable digital items. These items are authenticated with blockchain and are part of a new internet economy that consists of digital products representing art, game characters, domain names, and event tickets.
As NFT adoption surged, the platform initially faced speed and cost challenges tied to the limitations of the Ethereum network. In response, OpenSea expanded support to more scalable solutions such as Polygon, improving transaction efficiency and user experience while broadening access to lower-cost trading.
Despite increased competition following the fallout from FTX and the rise of rivals like Blur, OpenSea has continued to adapt its strategy with a renewed focus on long-term growth and community trust. Recent updated, including the decision to delay its SEA token launch to ensure strong rollout, the introduction of temporary 0% trading fees, and user-focused initiatives such as optional fee refunds, signal a more measured, user-centric approach as it promotes a revamped platform. While the competitive landscape remains intense, these moves suggest OpenSea is prioritizing sustainability and product quality, placing itself to remain a central player in the evolving NFT ecosystem.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2022
$300m
SERIES C
Jul 2021
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $427.3m
Company HQ
Brickell, Miami, FL
Leadership
Devin Finzer
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding OpenSea in 2017, Devin co-founded Claimdog, which was acquired by Credit Karma which he joined as an Engineering Manager. He also co-founded Iris Labs and spent nearly 2 years at Pinterest as a Software Engineer.
Nadav Hollander
(CTO)Prior to joining OpenSea in 2022, Nadav co-founded Dharma where he served as the CEO. He was also a Software Engineer at Coinbase.
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