Usual is hiring a

Web3 / Defi Product designer

🤞About Usual

Usual was born from a simple observation: dominant stablecoins operate like centralized banks — they capture billions in revenue and don’t redistribute it. In parallel, most crypto tokenomics have failed to deliver long-term fairness, favoring insiders over users.

We’re here to change that.

Usual is the first stablecoin protocol that gives back ownership and value to its users. By turning users into stakeholders, we’re building a more equitable financial infrastructure — one where value flows back to the community.

In just a few months, we built and launched a full protocol from scratch, introduced a new kind of stablecoin backed by tokenized US Treasuries (USD0), its yield-bearing counterpart (USD0++), and a revenue-sharing governance token ($USUAL). The protocol reached $1.8B in TVL at its peak and continues to evolve with major product and governance upgrades.

We’re a small, focused team of DeFi natives with a strong execution track record and a clear ambition to reshape how value circulates in crypto.

🎨 Your Role

We’re looking for a Product Designer to take full ownership of design and user experience for a new product stack being developed inside Usual Lab.

This is a foundational role: you’ll be the design lead within a small, autonomous squad — bridging design and development to ensure the products you design are implemented seamlessly and deliver the intended user experience.

Your mission will be to translate complex mechanisms into intuitive user journeys, build the design system from scratch, and work hand-in-hand with engineers to bring your work into production.

You’ll own the entire product design scope — and also play an active role in grooming, ticketing, syncing with devs, and following up on design implementation to ensure quality and alignment.

This role is perfect for someone who thrives in early-stage, fast-paced environments and wants to build real DeFi products from 0→1.

🧑‍💻 You’ll Work Within a Dedicated Squad

• Stack/Project Lead
• Product Designer (you)
• Tech Lead (Solidity)
• 1 Solidity Engineer
• 1 Backend Engineer
• 1 Frontend Engineer
• 1 Quant

🧠 You will

• Design elegant, user-centered experiences for a new DeFi product, from onboarding to edge cases.
• Own and build a clean, scalable design system that sets the tone for this stack.
• Craft flows, interfaces, and prototypes that make complex interactions feel intuitive.
• Work closely with developers during grooming and implementation to ensure designs are understood, built to spec, and optimized in production.
• Lead user journey mapping, interface structure, and micro-interactions.
• Build high-fidelity prototypes and iterate quickly based on feedback.
• Maintain close collaboration with the product lead and engineers to ensure smooth delivery from design to deployment.
• Contribute to brand and interface design for related web pages or dashboards.

🧰 You Have

• 4+ years in product or UX/UI design, ideally with experience in fintech or DeFi.
• Experience designing for Web3 platforms (wallets, tokens, flows, DeFi user behaviors).
• Strong design craft: attention to layout, micro-interactions, responsiveness, accessibility.
• Fluency with Figma — including auto-layout, components, and prototyping.
• Ability to explain design decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Bonus: Experience with Framer or similar tools for building lightweight marketing pages.
• Bonus: Experience collaborating directly with engineers on delivery and QA.

🌟 You Are

• Autonomous and proactive — you take ownership and push things forward.
• Curious and comfortable working with technical teams.
• A strong communicator who builds trust across design and engineering.
• Not afraid to start from a blank page and make decisions in ambiguous contexts.
• Passionate about DeFi, crypto, and building for real users.
  

🌷 What Success Looks Like

• A thoughtful, consistent user experience that makes complex DeFi mechanisms feel effortless.
• A design system that’s scalable and easy for devs to implement.
• Smooth, collaborative workflows between design and engineering — ensuring what’s in production matches what’s been designed.
• Clear product flows, fast iteration, and tight handoff between design and engineering.
• You’re the go-to person for product design decisions — and a key contributor to delivery quality.

🌍 Why Join Us?

• Work in a small, elite team at the frontier of DeFi.
• Take full ownership of a product experience from day one.
• Shape a new product stack with autonomy and velocity.
• Ship real products with impact — no red tape, no middle layers.
• Competitive salary and token options.
• Remote-first, async-friendly culture.

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