Senior Product Designer

Blackwing is looking for a Senior Product Designer to join an amazing team on the quest to transform the future of finance. Our ideal candidate will get full ownership and autonomy over the entire design stack, navigating the the challenges of taking a product 0 to 1 — from helping shape the brand to designing our product’s interaction model and user experience.

You will join an all star team of engineers and product leaders from companies like Facebook, Robinhood and LinkedIn — together the team has scaled products to billions of people and millions in revenue. You will constantly be challenged, fostered, and motivated to grow to new heights.

As a team, we love building well-crafted, delighteful and human centric products. We cherrish the time and effort we put into making experienes people absolutely love. If you share similar values, you will find a good home at Blackwing.

In terms of compensation, our non-dilutive token grant with early liquidity gives a significant edge in compensation over every other startup. If the company does well, you will be rewarded extremely well.

What is Blackwing?

Blackwing was founded on a simple idea: everyone should have the ability to access financial tools, regardless of where they are born and regardless of how experienced they are. With customers at the heart of every decision we make, Blackwing aims to build financial tooling that is safe, transparent, and intuitive for all.

Responsibilities

• Quickly navgiate the design challenges of a product going from 0 to 1
• Design and execute end-to-end product experiments, build prototypes, interaction models.
• Maintain Blackwing’s design system and ensure consistency across all our products.
• Help the team build it's brand, style, and communicate its values across all product touch points.

Requirements

• Be able to quickly design various design solutions taking input from the team and existing customers.
• Have strong proficency desiging in Figma, taking ideas from 0 to 1 within hours.
• Ideally, have a sense of what would work with users, a product intuition that will minimize iteration.

Benefits

• Work on some of the most interesting problems in DeFi pushing the boundaries of finance.
• Work with A* players from Meta and Robinhood who have grown products from millions to billions of users and revenue!
• Competitive compensation package that includes tokens, equity and cash.
• Good vibes

Location

You can either work remotely or come to our office in Williamsburg.

Our Culture

• We value feedback — if you’re not growing, you’re growing weaker! We think feedback is a gift and a crucial tool to push us to be our better selves.
• We move fast — speed is in our DNA, from engineering, to iteration, to hiring. We’re always pushing the boundaries of how fast we can learn, grow and succeed.
• We expect excellence — from code, to design, to product analysis, we hold a high bar for ourselves and the product we build.

Our Team

• Zo → As one of the early engineers on Facebook Messenger, Zo helped to grow the product from a few million to a billion monthly active users. His expertise lies in product development, iteration, growth, and engineering.
• Shahmeer → Shahmeer worked at Robinhood for several years, building core components of Robinhood’s trading infrastructure and leading the development of Fractional Trading. He is a world-class expert in financial engineering, scalability, and product development.
• Salman → Salman built a company and sold it to LinkedIn, where he served as a Staff Engineer for the past six years focusing on product, growth, and new initiatives. Salman led mobile development for Rainbow Wallet, launching a swap aggregator ($15M/month volume) across multiple chains and fiat to crypto on-ramping rails.
• Soju → Soju started his crypto career in Solana DeFi, playing a role in the early takeoff of Raydium, Friktion, Tulip, Solend, and others. Soju brings an extensive network, operational know-how, DeFi expertise, and partnerships required to succeed in the space.