Staff Product Designer

Polymarket Polymarket · Fintech · New York, NY · Design

Staff Product Designer at Polymarket, a prediction market platform. This role focuses on defining product direction and crafting the core user experience, collaborating with leadership to bring ideas to life. Responsibilities include designing for clarity and depth across prediction markets, finance, and social networks, prototyping, user research, and evolving the design system. Requires 10+ years of experience in consumer product design, strong visual and interaction skills, and a bias towards ownership. Fintech/crypto experience is a bonus.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead with autonomy. You’ll define and drive design work from scratch — identifying what needs to be done while raising the quality bar, and collaborating closely with engineers and leadership to bring ideas to life.
  2. Design for clarity and depth. Our product touches prediction markets, finance, and social networks. Your job is to make these powerful tools feel accessible, intuitive, and engaging.
  3. Prototype quickly and test ideas. You’ll use tools like Figma, Cursor, and light code to explore concepts, validate assumptions, and refine interfaces based on real feedback.
  4. Develop insights through research. You’ll talk to users, analyze behavior, and extract meaningful patterns that inform product direction.
  5. Define and evolve our design system. You’ll create the standards and systems that keep our product cohesive as it grows.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of experience designing high-quality consumer products
  • Portfolio showing system-level thinking and attention to detail
  • Strong visual and interaction design skills
  • Fluency in tools like Figma, Cursor, or V0
  • Clear, thoughtful communication
  • Ownership and action bias
  • Deep curiosity about markets, incentives, and the future of truth

Nice to have

  • Experience working in fintech, crypto, or data-rich products
  • Exposure to trading, DeFi, or financial systems