Blockchain Jobs in New York, New York, United States

DESCRIPTION: The Product Designer is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and passionate individual to join the team at Foundry, a subsidiary of the blockchain industry’s most prolific and active investor, Digital Currency Group. Reporting to the VP Product Strategy, the Senior Product Designer will help Foundry expand our mining software products into an integrated product suite that will shape the future of Bitcoin mining. Foundry has the number one Bitcoin mining pool and is launching a new miner management software, OptiFleet. Together, these products will facilitate the success of Foundry’s new business line, Site Operations.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Improve the user experience, accessibility and adoption of Foundry’s Mining Software Products
• Support the needs of internal and external users, establishing feedback systems to consistently gather user insights
• Solve design challenges holistically, crafting complete experiences rather than just designs, and maintain a sense of curiosity about their performance post-deployment
• Support Foundry’s efforts to make its mining software more robust, feature-rich and differentiated
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to shape an impactful, long-term design practice at Foundry
• Support the creation of Foundry's dedicated design function, enabling the organization to expedite progress through rapid prototyping and streamlined feedback loops.
• Leverage design expertise to take rough concepts from low fidelity to high-fidelity, communicating rationale to stakeholders and staying at least one sprint ahead of engineering
• Contribute to Foundry’s Design System
• Work closely with UX and Front-end engineering to expand, maintain and evangelize Foundry’s design system

Minimum Qualifications; Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• You have 5+ years of experience as a design lead on an enterprise product.
• You have 3+ years of design and conducting user interviews
• You have experience building and iterating on prototypes
• You have fluency in software development lifecycles and processes
• You have experience producing high-fidelity mock-ups and prototypes in Figma
• You've created and leveraged design systems across a multitude of applications
• You've conducted design sprints and driven towards carefully crafted MVP Requirements
• You have experience designing big products through small iterative releases
• You can empathize and develop rapport with developers.
• You are a clear writer and a compelling speaker
• You can develop empathy for customers and make decisions based on their needs, not yours.
• You excel at explaining your work, process, and decisions to cross-functional stakeholders
• Basic understanding of HTML, CSS and Vanilla JavaScript.

Preferred Qualifications; Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Have been in mining or crypto for +2 years and understand the UX problems in the space
• Knowledge of data visualization and data storytelling techniques
• Have built your own applications using frameworks like React/Vue/Svelte
• Developed and maintained design systems from scratch
• You are comfortable working remotely as part of a small team, with a high level of autonomy
• Experience in UI, Interaction Design, and Product is a huge plus
• Strong presentation skills
• You have a practical understanding of Agile development methodologies and the flexibility to modify them in the way that works best for the team/project