Product Designer - DeFi

About Birthday Research- Blockchain R&D wing of the Company DeFi
 
Birthday Research (BDR) is the Blockchain Research and Development wing of the company DeFi, a Singapore-based blockchain, and fintech company. Fuelled by the best minds in the industry, BDR seeks to develop best-in-class blockchain innovations with the mission of enabling the next bound of Web3.
 
As a pioneering force, our work spans cryptographic research, deep blockchain consensus development, and smart contracts development — with a laser-sharp focus on driving the industry frontier while tackling the most demanding DeFi challenges of today. To date, one of our core contributions, DeFiChain, has garnered over 1 billion USD in total value locked on the layer-1 protocol.
 
We are a fast-growing, globally distributed, close-knit team of multi-disciplinary doers and getters. Join Birthday Research today to be a part of the driving force shaping the future of decentralization. 

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with the Engineering and Product teams to distill requirements and bring them to life as information architecture, interactive wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes, for web, mobile, and desktop apps.
• Collaborate with the Ops, Customer Success, and Community teams to facilitate user research, ethnographic studies, and usability tests, to validate and iterate on designed solutions.
• Measure the effectiveness of design solutions with analytics and user interviews.
• Improving and expanding the existing Design System.

What You’ll Need

• 4+ Years of Professional Experience in a technology-focused startup, agency, or freelance capacity.
• Experience in Cryptocurrency or knowledge in Cryptocurrency is a plus.
• Experience in turning business and product requirements into interactive high-fidelity prototypes, to share with internal and external testers.
• Experience in conducting user research and validating design solutions through usability tests.
• Experience with designing data-driven web, mobile and desktop apps.
• Deep knowledge of design industry best practices.
• An excellent online portfolio showcasing solutions across multiple design challenges.
• Experience bringing projects from concept to execution.
• Master at Sketch or Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and other leading design tools.
• Able to function independently and in a team environment, with excellent collaboration skills.
• Be able to present and articulate ideas.
• Ability and experience in web development with HTML and CSS a plus.
• Ability to distill key decisions and discussions and translate them into compelling solutions.
• A demonstrated passion to delight the audience, as well as knowledge of how to leverage design to achieve communication goals.
• Trained in User Experience Design, Interaction Design, User-Centered Design or similar disciplines