Staff Product Designer - Advanced Trade

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As a Staff Product Designer, Advanced Trade, you will help shape the future of Coinbase’s most sophisticated trading experiences and give millions of traders the speed, confidence, and control they expect from a best-in-class platform. You will join a distributed Advanced Trading Design team working across desktop and mobile surfaces, from portfolio and charting to derivatives, spot margin, and other high-complexity workflows. In this role, you’ll lead 0–1 initiatives, drive high-impact improvements across the product, and raise the overall quality and craft of the Advanced Trading experience.

What you’ll be doing

Own end-to-end product design for key Advanced Trade experiences across web and mobile, from discovery and concepting through prototyping, specs, iteration, and launch quality.

Lead high-ambiguity, zero-to-one and improvement initiatives across advanced trading surfaces, including areas such as derivatives, spot margin, structured products, portfolio, and modular UI evolution.

Raise the craft and quality bar across the Advanced Trading product surface, helping bring our UI and interaction quality up to what best-in-class industry products are expected to deliver in 2026 and beyond.

Design scalable frameworks, patterns, and information architecture for complex, data-dense workflows so advanced traders can move with clarity in high-stakes moments.

Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Research, and cross-functional peers to define problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and ship thoughtful, high-impact work.

Lead through influence by coaching and upleveling more junior designers, contributing strong opinions, and extending your impact beyond a single project or feature area.

What we look for in you

8+ years of experience designing digital products, including meaningful time in complex, data-dense, workflow-heavy, or tools-oriented environments.

Broad end-to-end product design range and a track record of operating autonomously with limited oversight in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.

Strong visual design, interaction design, systems thinking, and prototyping craft; able to raise the quality bar for the broader team.

Proven ability to lead through influence, shape direction, and coach less experienced designers without formal management responsibility.

Excellent cross-functional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner effectively with Product and Engineering on highly collaborative work.

Deep fluency in Figma and modern prototyping workflows.

Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots in day-to-day workflows, applying sound judgment and human-in-the-loop practices to improve quality and efficiency.

Nice to haves

Experience designing for trading, brokerage, wallet, fintech, or other high-information, high-stakes products.

Familiarity with crypto market structure, derivatives, options, charting, portfolio, or related advanced trading concepts.

Experience working on zero-to-one launches, major platform redesigns, or building design systems / scalable UI frameworks in high-growth environments.

Background as a founding designer or in smaller, high-craft teams where you had to figure things out with minimal process or support.

Position ID: P77072

Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):$207,485—$244,100 USD

Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 4 applications per 30-day period.

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