We're looking for a passionate and experienced Senior Product Designer to join our growing team. In this role, you'll play a key part in shaping the future of our direct-to-consumer trading products. You'll tackle exciting challenges, collaborate with talented colleagues, and improve the design quality of our products. 

What you'll do:

• Own the design process: Lead the end-to-end design for complex web and mobile applications, from user research and discovery to pixel-perfect execution.
• Champion user needs: Deeply understand our global user base (traders and developers) and advocate for their needs throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Shape our design system: Support efforts create and maintain a cohesive design system that scales across Alpaca’s product ecosystem. 
• Collaborate effectively: Work closely with product managers, engineers, internal stakeholders, and fellow designers to bring innovative solutions to life.
• Drive impactful results: Balance multiple projects and feature launches while consistently raising design quality.

Who you are:

• Experienced: You have 7+ years of experience in product design, with a proven track record of launching complex fintech/trading products in a fast-paced environment.
• User-centric: You're passionate about understanding user needs and translating them into intuitive and engaging experiences.
• Collaborative: You thrive in a collaborative, remote environment and excel at communicating design decisions effectively.
• Jack-of-all-trades, master of design: You're a true design generalist, excelling at both user experience and effective visual design. You have experience designing for B2C/B2B products and internal tools.
• Technical proficiency: You have a solid understanding of working with APIs, how designs are implemented by engineering, and make use of tools to streamline development handoff. 

Bonus points:

• Experience working with globally distributed teams.
• A knack for crafting delightful micro-interactions.
• 0-1 experience in a startup environment.