Polymarket
Staff Product Designer
1y ago
USALeaduser researchui designinteraction designprototypingfigma
Lead design at Polymarket to define product direction and craft core user experience with high autonomy.
Responsibilities
- We’re hiring a Staff Product Designer at Polymarket. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role where you’ll help define the product’s direction and craft the core user experience from first principles.
- We’re not a place where roadmaps are handed down or specs are set in stone. We’re looking for someone who thrives in ambiguity — someone who sees undefined spaces as creative opportunities and has the initiative to bring structure, insight, and beauty to complex problems.
- You’ll collaborate closely with the Founder and leadership team, owning design end-to-end: from understanding our users and defining product narratives to shipping thoughtful, high-precision interfaces.
Conditions
- Competitive salary & equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
- 401k match
- Hardware setup — new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories
Other
- Polymarket is the world’s largest prediction market platform. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized “house,” Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future.
- We're growing fast – both in terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire.
- Lead with autonomy. You’ll define and drive design work from scratch — identifying what needs to be done while raising the quality bar, and collaborating closely with engineers and leadership to bring ideas to life.
- Design for clarity and depth. Our product touches prediction markets, finance, and social networks. Your job is to make these powerful tools feel accessible, intuitive, and engaging.
- Prototype quickly and test ideas. You’ll use tools like Figma, Cursor, and light code to explore concepts, validate assumptions, and refine interfaces based on real feedback.
- Develop insights through research. You’ll talk to users, analyze behavior, and extract meaningful patterns that inform product direction.
- Define and evolve our design system. You’ll create the standards and systems that keep our product cohesive as it grows.
- Act as a force-multiplier. You’ll raise the bar — not just through your own work, but by modeling great thinking, process, and collaboration across the company.
- 10+ years of experience designing high-quality consumer products, ideally in early-stage or zero-to-one environments
- A portfolio that shows you can think at the system level while sweating the details
- Strong visual and interaction design skills, plus fluency in tools like Figma, Cursor, or V0
- Clear, thoughtful communication — whether you’re sharing work, making a case, or putting together a presentation
- A bias towards ownership and action: you know how to figure out what matters, even when the path isn’t obvious
- Deep curiosity about markets, incentives, and the future of truth
- Bonus: experience working in fintech, crypto, or data-rich products
- Bonus: exposure to trading, DeFi, or financial systems — or a hunger to learn quickly