Lead Product Designer (Full Time/Flexible)

What do we do?

Chainflip is building the next generation of native cross-chain financial infrastructure, starting with seamless asset swapping and now expanding into cross-chain lending.

We enable users to swap major crypto assets like BTC, ETH, and SOL across chains — without wrapped tokens— and have already processed almost $4 billion in trades since launch. Chainflip achieves this by running its own blockchain and a network of validators that control vaults across multiple ecosystems, making the user experience smooth, secure, and fast.

Now, we’re building a generalised cross-chain lending product, allowing users to borrow and lend native assets like BTC, ETH, or USDC directly, with no friction and no need to wrap, bridge, or manage multiple wallets. This is a huge leap forward for DeFi UX, and one of the most ambitious product design challenges in the space.

We’re a team of 30, deeply experienced and passionate about solving hard UX problems in crypto, like hiding the complexity of multi-chain workflows, making interactions work seamlessly, and turning powerful infrastructure into intuitive, elegant interfaces. Headquartered in Berlin, we champion flexible work styles, encouraging both in-office collaboration and the freedom of remote stints. If you’re excited to shape DeFi UX, we’d love to meet you.

What’s the Job?

We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer with experience designing crypto or DeFi products, someone who understands the unique UX challenges of decentralised products and wants to push them forward.

You’ll be the design owner across our product portfolio, from our cross-chain swapping platform to our upcoming lending product, which enables users to borrow and lend native assets like BTC, ETH, and USDC across chains natively. These are some of the most complex UX problems in the space, and we’re solving them in ways no one else is.

Your job is to deeply understand our users by defining, experimenting and iterating to solve these problems. You’ll help us eliminate friction, abstract away complexity, and design experiences that feel seamless, even when they’re powered by multiple blockchains.

The Product team is a lean cross-functional team composed of six Engineers, a Product Lead, and, soon to join, Lead Designer. The nature of this team means communication and collaboration are taken very seriously.

What you will do:

• Lead projects from discovery to launch, balancing attention to detail with low-fidelity sketches as needed
• Align input from business goals, technical requirements, and data to design concepts that can be tested with users and partners
• Create user flows, user journeys, interactive prototypes, and MVPs for testing that help validate potential concepts with users, using Figma
• Design across web and mobile while reviewing & testing the resulting experience meets expectations
• Collaborate with cross-functional peers to drive product strategy and design a holistic experience for our users and partners
• And much more! No matter which product you work on, you will be exposed to the fascinating trade-offs and opportunities that come with designing for the DeFi space.

About the Company

We are a Berlin-based team with our own office space in the heart of Kreuzberg. We also have several remote team members supporting our mission. Our team has a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to share, and hopefully, you’ll be able to contribute with yours too.

We arrange a company-wide meet-up once a year, have a very open and flexible culture, and enjoy meaningful personal connections with one another. All Berlin-based employees are offered a standard employment contracts under German law and the following list of benefits:

• 🚉 Public transport: Enjoy the “Deutschland Ticket” subscription
• 🏊🏽‍♂️ Stay Active: We have you covered with Urban Sports Club membership
• 🎓 Learning: Annual budget for personal development (eg Udemy courses)📚 German language courses: Go multilingual with our sponsored courses
• 🌴 Loyalty Rewards: Extra holidays for every year working at Chainflip. It is very important to us that our team members are well-rested and take the time to recharge from time to time
• 🍲 Team Vibes: From in-office cooking sessions, sports like volleyball and padel, to music streams and events, we ensure you’re always connected and engaged. After all, it’s the collective spirit that makes Chainflip unique.

For this role, we are also open to flexible working arrangements to support any existing freelance work you may have.

Who Should Apply?

This is the role for you if:

• 🇪🇺 You’re based in Europe and open to calling Berlin your new home.
• 🤓 You boast 5+ years in a design role as an individual contributor (UX designer, product designer, interaction designer) and experience with financial products, with a mastery of tools like Figma
• 💼 A strong portfolio with projects that highlight your approach to problem-solving as well as a strong understanding of the craft
• 👐 Hands-on experience driving projects from discovery to launch, including user testing and user research
• 💡 Strategic mindset and ability to balance both user experience and business needs
• 🙋‍♀️ Passion for solving complex problems using design in creative and effective ways
• 📚 Eager to broaden your horizons into the realm of Decentralised Finance (DeFi) and explore new territory with us

A quick note: If you don’t check every box but are passionate and bring unique perspectives, we still want to hear from you! We deeply value diverse experiences and talents. Our offered salaries reflect the depth of your skills and experience. With your application, kindly indicate your expected salary range.

The Process

• Submit Your CV: Start by submitting your CV for an initial review. We’ll assess your experience and fit for the role.
• Screening Calls: If selected, you’ll have a short screening call with our COO and the Head of Product, to discuss your background, motivations, and alignment with Chainflip’s vision.
• Portfolio Review & Whiteboard Session: Next, you’ll present a design project of your choosing in a portfolio review. This is an opportunity to showcase your design process, problem-solving skills, and impact. Following the review, we’ll engage in a collaborative whiteboard session where you’ll work through a design challenge in real-time.
• Team Meet & Greet: Finally, you’ll meet other members of the Product team as well as our CEO. This is your chance to get a feel for our culture and ask any questions you might have about working at Chainflip.

Equal Opportunity at Chainflip

We recognise the inherent value of building with a diverse and inclusive team of Flippers. We thrive when given the flexibility and autonomy to work in ways that best suit their individual lifestyles and needs. If accommodations are required at any step of your application process, do let us know.

We firmly commit to equal employment opportunities, irrespective of race, color, genetic information, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, disability status, veteran status, or any other personal or protected characteristics. Our evaluation is purely based on your passion, skills, and the potential you bring, without attention to your background. Furthermore, we understand and respect the importance of considering qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, in line with legal requirements.