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Founding Designer

Vest Exchange

Date listed

1 week ago

Employment Type

Full time

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Keywords: illustrator ux figma

[ Only NYC-based applicants or applicants willing to relocate will be considered ]

Hi, I'm working with a team from BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, AQR, and Tower Research to build the most cutting edge financial exchange backed by Jane Street and secured by zero knowledge proofs. Our mission is to rebuild every financial product into their trustless counterpart.

We are creating Vest, a decentralized clearinghouse and trustless prime brokerage that enables a composable financial ecosystem cross margined via a bespoke risk engine. Our first product is a highly capital efficient futures exchange with its solvency secured algorithmically.

Our team and advisors include computer scientists, wall street executives, cryptographers, DeFi founders, and physicists. We are backed by visionary venture capitalists, quantitative trading firms, and global financial institutions such as Jane Street, QCP Capital, BBH, Selini Capital, MatterLabs, Symbolic, and executives from BlackRock, Citadel, Goldman, and Point72 who share our vision for a fully democratized financial system.

We are looking for a founding designer to join the team and lead the design initiatives of the company. This includes work on product UI, marketing, and branding.

Ideal candidate is...

  • Hungry, inquisitive, and opinionated.

  • Willing to comfortably disagree and debate with the team on design decisions.

Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with the team to turn raw product ideas into well thought out designs via Figma

  • Build and maintain ongoing communication and relationships with users to inform growth and design decisions

  • Design graphics for marketing campaigns and promotional materials.

  • Spearhead design for subsidiary marketing activities, including company avatars, merchandise, etc.

Qualifications:

  • 3+ years of experience UI/UX design

  • 2+ years of experience with Figma

  • 2+ years of experience in Adobe Illustrator

  • Fast and scrappy in prototyping

  • Very transparent in communication

  • Can join in person NYC

Ideal candidate is:

  • Has experience working in exchanges (Robinhood, Coinbase, FTX, NASDAQ, NYSE, Binance, etc.)

  • A consumer psychology expert - able to understand user motivations and behaviors.

  • Experimental and able to prototype quickly.

  • Experienced in trading, having conversations with traders and understanding their psychology

  • Taking user feedback into account for better product decisions.

  • Experienced with consumer-facing apps that feature top-notch UI/UX, and has worked on products with a strong focus on user experience.

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