Staff Product Designer, Nexus
Verifiable computing, powered by zero-knowledge proofs
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Verifiable computing, powered by zero-knowledge proofs
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
1-20 employees
Company mission
To build the infrastructure for a verifiable world.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in product design, with a strong portfolio of work that includes UI/UX design, particularly in data-driven visualizations or highly technical products
- Creative Vision: Proven ability to integrate artistic and creative design with complex, technical concepts like computation, mathematics, and cryptography
- Leadership: Experience in a senior design role, with the ability to take initiative, set design direction, and mentor junior designers
- Collaboration: Strong ability to work across teams, especially in close collaboration with engineering, product, and leadership
- Design Tools: Expertise in design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and other relevant software
- Familiarity with Frontend Tools: Nexus engineers work with various frontend frameworks, such as React, TypeScript, React Native, Flutter, NextJS and more
- If you’re passionate about design and excited by the opportunity to work at the intersection of technology, science, and art, we’d love to hear from you!
What the job involves
- As a Staff Product Designer at Nexus, you will play a critical role in shaping the design and user experience across all facets of Nexus as a project, product, and company
- You will lead the design of network and mathematical visualizations, network explorers, prover and mobile frontends, while exploring creative and artistic expressions of Nexus’ core ideas like supercomputing, cryptography, and mathematics
- This is a senior role where you will have the autonomy to take initiative, establish design practices, and guide the product UX/UI direction
- You’ll collaborate closely with a small, highly talented team in a flat organizational structure, working alongside world-class engineers, scientists, and mathematicians
- Your work will impact hundreds of users across more than 20 countries, and you’ll play a key role in fostering a culture that values fast shipping, rapid iteration, and design excellence
- Lead the design across Nexus products and interfaces, including network visualizations, mathematical visualizations, network explorers, prover frontends, and mobile frontends
- Collaborate with the Brand Design Director and VP of Brand & Design to guide design strategy and establish Nexus' visual identity across all touchpoints
- Experiment with artistic and creative expressions of Nexus’ core concepts such as computation, cryptography, supercomputing, and zero-knowledge proofs
- Build and maintain design practices that foster collaboration between designers, engineers, and product teams
- Drive the UX/UI direction, ensuring a seamless, user-centered experience across all Nexus products
- Inspire a fast-paced design process, ensuring quick iteration and constant improvements, while maintaining high standards of design excellence
- Collaborate cross-functionally primarily with engineers and the leadership to align design with broader product goals
- Critical to this role is to work in close collaboration cycles directly with engineers to effectively implement designed interfaces, and build a composable frontend design system
Our take
Nexus Labs is creating zero knowledge-powered scaling and privacy tools to support the rapidly changing digital AI landscape. Its solutions include cybersecurity and cloud computing support, all focused on Nexus Labs Nexus Project - a scientific and engineering scheme to enable verifiable computation at internet scale.
This ambitious project has attracted impressive funding from top Silicon Valley Investors. No surprise, considering the far-reaching motive of Nexus Labs: to bring about a new verifiable internet. The Nexus Project is attempting to draw on cryptography, mathematics and computer science to create a general-purpose system for verifiable computation.
There have already been several versions of the Nexus zkVM, and its funding is being channelled into improving its capabilities. The company’s work is cut out for it, but early interest from investors suggests that it will continue to grow.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2024
$25m
SERIES A
Dec 2022
$2.2m
SEED
Total funding: $27.2m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Daniel Marin
(CEO)Previously a Software Engineer Intern at Google and Stanford University's Dawn AI Lab. Also a Bronze Medallist at Tel Aviv University's International Physics Olympiad.
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