DeFi Careers at OpenSea

OpenSea is the first and largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. Applications for NFTs include collectibles, gaming items, domain names, digital art, and many other items backed by a blockchain. NFTs have brand new properties that go beyond traditional digital items: they’re unique, provably scarce, liquid, and usable across multiple applications. At OpenSea, we're excited about building a brand new economy from the ground up based on true digital ownership and are proud to be recognized as Y Combinator's #26 ranked top private company.

When hiring candidates, we look for signals that a candidate will thrive in our culture, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, grow rapidly, and love our work. We also know how critical it is to celebrate and support our differences. Employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences and opinions enables our employees, our product and our community to flourish. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. To help facilitate this, we support remote, hybrid or onsite work at either New York City or San Francisco for the majority of our opportunities.

Working closely with product and design, we’re looking for a User Researcher to plan, conduct, analyze, and communicate user insights. In this role, you will serve as a strategic research partner to help influence product decisions in our nascent space of DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and Web 3.0 If you’re excited about the opportunity of building and shaping the future of marketplaces to empower creators and collectors, welcome to OpenSea. 

Responsibilities - Scope, plan, conduct, analyze and communicate insights from mixed-methods research, including in-depth interviews, usability testing, concept testing, surveys, field research, jobs to be done and other methods, as needed. - Transform stakeholder questions into actionable research plans. - Evangelize your insights across teams and influence product and strategy decisions. - Collaborate daily with peers across disciplines, including product, design, engineering, and other teams.

Desired Experience - 4+ years’ experience of user research experience, preferable with experiences where you have lead user research. - Demonstrated history of conducting research within a product team and shipping products that have been influenced by your insights. - Ability to drive and own the user research process using various research methods end-to-end. - Experience collaborating and partnering strategically with Product, Design, and other partners to influence product decisions. - Preferred - have personal or professional experience in crypto, NFTs, DeFi, and/or Web 3.0.