Anchorage Digital

Product Designers at Anchorage Digital develop a deep understanding of the products we build and the problems we solve in order to create new patterns that meld traditional financial workflows with the world of crypto.

We design solutions to questions with no precedent for institutional users. How do we make the experience of sending funds secure, but also highly efficient? How do we balance the human need for privacy with the open and transparent nature of the blockchain? How do clients express their opinion in on-chain proposals with the newest digital assets?

You’ll join a team of designers that are intentional, collaborative, and relentlessly curious, to play a core part in fostering design at our fast-growing company. This is a rare opportunity to help shape the future of the financial world by defining the way institutions (all over the world) interact with digital assets.

We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Member of Product Design, Direct Custody role:

Technical Skills:

• Pairs with Product and Engineering to do research and engage with customers, explores a broad range of solutions, concepts and detailed designs and narrows down to the best solution using strong rationale.

• Is able to anticipate gaps and opportunities in customer understanding that drive real business impact and can think strategically about long term decisions.

• Is very proficient with sketching, flow diagrams, interface design tools and prototyping tools and use these regularly in their daily work.

• Designs connected, holistic and modular systems that help us move faster in the future.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Leads large, strategic and complex projects or processes, or open-ended and ambiguous problems that peers, technical leads, and managers agree are significantly challenging or have a clear impact on the success of Anchorage. Applies conceptual thinking to understand the issues and its implications.

• Breaks down complex projects into simple initiatives and processes that can be effectively built and maintained by the team. Prioritizes work within the team or project, and helps others understand the value of what they are contributing to.

• Understands how their product impacts other products and departments, drives alignment with the broader Product, Design and Engineering team.

• Impacts business direction through the development and design of innovative services or products.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Collaborate with multiple layers of stakeholders to turn the team strategy into a product vision.

• Promotes a shared understanding of the needs of Anchorage and strategic direction to rally teams. Develops and implements programs, projects and processes aligned with Anchorage strategic direction and needs.

Communication and Influence

• Communicates complex issues clearly and credibly across a wide range of audiences, and partners with other senior members to re-communicate vision, mission, and strategy as well as positive impacts for clients and for our roadmap.

• Highly effective communication skills. Writes and presents concisely and clearly, uses storytelling to communicate the work in an engaging way.

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• 5+ years of experience in designing world-class complex enterprise products.

• Experience building financial or crypto products.

• Can define the strategy, and solve complex challenges across iOS and Web to turn simplicity out of complexity.

• Ability to take ownership of the design process, think holistically, and articulate design decisions that deliver both user and business value.

• Deep understanding of how to create usable, accessible modular designs that can scale.

• Excellent communication and proven ability to lead in cross-functional environments.

• Experience partnering with product managers and engineers to develop the strategy and rationale for product features.

• The ability to give feedback, receive feedback, and guide other designers.

• Some special combination of the following: creative, humble, detail-oriented, self-aware, curious, thoughtful, and tenacious.

• A compelling portfolio of work that demonstrates high-quality design work that also tells a story that you are a design thinker
  
  

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• You've kept up to date with the proliferation of blockchain and crypto innovations.

• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)