NFT 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.

In this role you will be working closely with the Head of Design, the design team and engineering. We’re looking for a Product Designer to help craft and manage our design system from the ground up that scales and flexes across a variety of audiences, abilities, devices, and platforms. You will drive the evolution of our visual language through thoughtfully defining components, patterns, and interactions. If you’re excited about the opportunity of building and shaping the future of marketplaces to empower creators and collectors, welcome to OpenSea. 

Responsibilities - Craft and manage our design system from the ground up that scales and flexes across a variety of audiences, abilities, devices, and platforms. - Work cross-functionally with product management, engineering, and design peers. - Drive the evolution OpenSea’s visual language by design and define interaction patterns through components, documentation, and prototypes. - Work with developers to maintain and create new components for our library. - Participate in user research and testing as needed to ensuring usability and product consistency .

Desired Experience - Have 4+ years of product design experience with user experience and visual design on either complex enterprise software or consumer software; working across multiple platforms including web, Android, and iOS. - Have a portfolio showcasing the successful implementation of design systems that: are usable by all stakeholders; has strong documentation; shows a strong link between brand and product; demonstrate meticulous attention to interaction patterns and visual design. - Take a systematic approach and have an obsessive attention to details and fundamentals of interaction and visual design. - Preferred - if you have experience and/or is passionate in ecommerce and/or the blockchain, - Preferred - 1+ years experience in designing and managing design systems using Figma and have developed systems with accessibility best practice. - Preferred - Have a BFA or MFA in interaction, graphic, industrial design, or related fields.