Head of Design, Product Design (Web3)

Location: Full-time onsite at the New York, NY office; Palo Alto, California is also listed as an additional location.

Base salary: $210,000–$250,000 USD annually, plus equity, annual performance bonus, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides regulated digital asset infrastructure, including custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, stablecoins, and settlement services for institutions and investors.

What you will do

• Lead and mentor a small, senior design team while maintaining individual ownership of design surfaces.
• Design the retail mobile experience and ship work from discovery through specification in Figma.
• Own the design system and component library, including tokens, patterns, governance, contribution, and adoption.
• Represent design in product strategy, roadmaps, architecture discussions, and client-facing conversations.
• Shape product and engineering discovery, roadmaps, critique, documentation, reviews, and engineering handoffs.
• Design shared systems across accounts, wallets, assets, entitlements, approvals, and other product areas.

Requirements

• Experience leading design in financial services; digital assets or another domain with genuinely complex technical flows is strongly preferred.
• Experience building and owning a design system at scale.
• Current hands-on Figma practice and strong craft critique skills.
• Deep UX expertise, strong product thinking, logical reasoning, and decisions grounded in data.
• Experience managing designers and developing their capabilities.
• Technical literacy, including comfort with APIs, data models, technical designs, and engineering trade-offs.
• Direct communication skills with product executives, engineering leads, clients, and other stakeholders.
• Willingness to lead the transition of a technical, compliance-heavy platform toward a design-led approach.

Nice to have

• Experience in regulated environments such as broker-dealers, trust companies, banks, or qualified custodians.
• Experience with complex permissioning, approval workflows, or multi-entity account structures.
• Design leadership experience at a company that underwent a similar design transformation.

Culture & Benefits

• Values include ownership, craftsmanship, open communication, collaboration, innovation, and execution.
• Competitive base salary, bonus, stock options, and equity.
• Company-paid health insurance for the employee, partner, and dependents; benefits may vary by location.
• Up to 4% 401(k) company match, paid parental leave, and paid vacation.
• Free commuter or parking pass, custom lunches and snacks, computer equipment, and workplace furniture.

Hiring process

• No specific hiring stages or application instructions are provided.