The Company

Digital Asset helps companies of all sizes and across industries get distributed applications to market faster, and stay there longer. At the core of our service offering is Daml (daml.com), the open source and platform-independent smart contract framework that enables developers to write an application once and deploy it anywhere. Today, we work with some of the largest companies in the world to harness the transformative power of smart contracts - a component of the distributed ledger technology (DLT) stack - and change the way applications are developed, deployed and used to solve real-world business challenges.

Digital Asset is a global company with offices in New York, London, Budapest, Zurich, Hong Kong, and Sydney.

As we grow our team, we will maintain the dynamic, collaborative and pragmatic way of working that has grounded our efforts from the beginning. If you seek to develop solutions others have yet to contemplate, this opportunity may be right for you!

Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the product design team at Digital Asset, tasked with bringing a world class experience to our customers as they bring our vision of creating the Global Economic Network to life. You shape the product-wide design practice and processes and you and your team’s work directly influences every aspect of our customer’s and user’s experience.

Key Responsibilities

Share your deep product design experience and collaborate with product and engineering leadership to incorporate design methodology and practices into all aspects of product delivery.
Work cross-functionally, building relationships within marketing, product management, engineering and technical enablement to represent product design company-wide and support all functions to incorporate design practices into their culture.
Promote the use of the whole design methodology throughout all product and engineering teams.
Collaborate and influence the product design team that supports product delivery teams including product managers, engineers, technical writers and instructional designers to understand user needs and deliver high-quality user-centered experiences.
Contribute your own visual, user experience, and developer experience design skills to product initiatives.
Own and prioritize the design backlog

Key Criteria

5+ years experience as a designer of software products.
A portfolio demonstrating understanding of several of:

the product design process and ability to deliver high quality experiences
web design and front-end development best practices including but not limited to: usability, accessibility and responsive design
collecting and interpreting qualitative and quantitative feedback
user experience design
visual design
design research

Ability to learn and work with complex systems and highly technical subject matter.
Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.
Fluency with Figma and other prototyping tools.
Position is based in our New York headquarters.

The following are a plus:

Previous experience leading a design practice or team.
Experience with developer products and developer experience.
Prior B2B and SaaS/PaaS product design experience.
Prior experience in financial services.

NO AGENCIES, PLEASE!

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This is a rare opportunity to help define an industry and join a dynamic team of technology innovators.

Digital Asset is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, citizenship status, veteran status or any other basis protected by applicable law. If and as required by applicable law, all persons hired to work at Digital Asset will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the location for which they have an offer to work and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification documents upon hire. Applicants with disabilities who require accommodation should contact recruiting@digitalasset.com.

As part of our commitment to equal opportunity, Digital Asset believes that all employees should receive equal pay for equal work and is committed to this principle in its pay structure. DA also offers family-friendly benefits in addition to flexible work arrangements.