Product Designer Jobs in Web3

About NEAR

NEAR Protocol is a developer-first blockchain that emphasizes convenience and speed of development on the NEAR platform while minimizing the entrance barrier for developers coming from the blockchain ecosystem, as well as regular web and mobile development space.

Mission of NEAR Inc is to help launch decentralized projects, which includes among other things providing the platform, the tooling, and the core applications to integrate with.

We are looking for a talented, meticulous, and productive product designer who loves working in an energetic and free-thinking environment, feels comfortable challenging opinions, and most importantly who shares with us the same desire to make the web free again. We’re especially excited about generalist designers with a strong focus on their craft, UX research, quick iteration and who are keen to influence product strategy.

We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. NEAR is committed to creating an inclusive culture, and we celebrate diversity of all kinds.

About The Role:

The mission of this position is to rapidly create web and mobile application interfaces, engage feedback from stakeholders both internally and from the community, and work with builders to help shape the direction and usability of the product.

Product Design and Product Management

• Contribute to overall strategy and decision-making about product direction
• Help deliver and refine clear storytelling around product needs and opportunities
• Create, collaborate, and iterate on flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity interface and interaction design
• Design and ship high quality product improvements to existing products as well as new features
• Help to establish, document, and implement a new design system, setting us up to scale our team and product
• Work on features with ownership end-to-end, from the research phase all the way through to implementation
• Identify problems, define goals and opportunities, test hypotheses and prototype solutions, perform user research, and collaborate closely with engineers
• Facilitate design reviews and usability testing to gather feedback on your directions and proposed solutions

UX Research

• Coordinate and perform user research, to make sure we're always talking to our users and listening to their feedback
• Perform regular competitive analysis to learn about how other products are approaching similar problems in order to determine how we might approach these problems ourselves
• Synthesize and incorporate feedback from research into product and design. Turn user feedback into actionable change
• Gather feedback internally, from the NEAR ecosystem and community, and iterate based on the needs we identify

What We're Looking For:

• 5+ years of professional design experience across UI/UX, user research and app design
• Building design systems using tools like Figma
• Experience with building interfaces to enable creators to create
• Professional experience working in fast-paced startup teams and with multiple applications
• A relentless hunger to learn
• Blazing intelligence and a world class standard of execution
• You should be a great communicator and remain calm under pressure or when juggling multiple priorities

We’d Love If You Have

• Web and mobile design experience
• Open source and community engagement experience

Location: Anywhere in the world

Working at NEAR:Roles are posted to this portal on behalf of the companies that make up the NEAR Collective and are typically located anywhere in the world because most of the companies are fully remote. Some hubs are located in Switzerland, Germany, Russia, the US and China. Regardless of where you work, this is a high performance culture that values ownership, execution and professionalism but pairs it with curiosity and experimentation. The vision is big but the right team is behind it.