Lead Product Designer

Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system? Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high-scale today. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem. We are looking for a Lead Product Designer to lead design across SDF’s products and to raise the bar on craft for the whole team. This is a player-coach role: you will manage and mentor another designer while remaining a world-class individual contributor on our most important and visible work. You will set the design vision, uphold an exceptional standard of craft, and you are excited to leverage AI tools to multiply what a small design team can deliver — moving faster from concept to high-fidelity, shippable design. In this role, you will: - In your first 30 days: ramp on our products, design system, and roadmap; partner with PMs and engineers; and start contributing directly to active design work. - Within 90 days: own the design vision for key product areas, establish how the team works (including AI-assisted workflows), and support the growth of the designer you manage. - Set and champion a clear product design vision aligned with company goals and brand values. - Lead by example as our most senior designer — contributing directly to our most important projects with exceptional visual and interaction craft. - Manage, mentor, and grow another product designer; provide thoughtful feedback and career development. - Maintain and scale our design system to ensure consistency and speed across products. - Leverage AI design and prototyping tools to increase the team’s leverage and the quality and velocity of what you ship. - Partner closely with Product and Engineering to ship pixel-perfect, use