Lead DeFi / Web3 Product Designer (Full Time / Flexible)

Overview

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 runs its own blockchain and a network of validators that control vaults across multiple ecosystems to make the user experience smooth, secure, and fast. We are 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 remote work. 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 Product Designer. The nature of this team means communication and collaboration are taken very seriously.

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

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 standard employment contracts under German law and the following list of benefits: