About Symbiotic
- Symbiotic is the infrastructure beneath collateral markets, where capital can secure financial obligations, remain productive, and be enforced by code.
- By changing the economics of onchain collateral, Symbiotic enables new categories of neofinance applications that were previously impossible to build - including credit, insurance, RWA liquidity, and more.
- As institutional capital increasingly moves onchain, Symbiotic is positioned to become the coordination layer connecting capital and risk across the onchain economy.
- Backed by Paradigm, Pantera, Cyber.fund, and Coinbase Ventures, we power 80+ vaults, 74,000+ active stakers, and 111 operators - with Chainlink and Cap Labs among the teams live in production.
- See how Symbiotic is powering the next generation of onchain finance: symbiotic.fi
Our People
We’re a tight-knit team of experienced builders working at the forefront of financial infrastructure. Our backgrounds span high-growth tech start-ups, leading crypto companies, major banks, insurers, and financial institutions. We work with ownership, a high bar for craft, and the urgency of an early-stage company - in an environment where people are trusted to take initiative and supported to do their best work.
We’re looking for talented professionals to join us at a defining moment, as Symbiotic helps shape the next generation of onchain finance.
What You'll Do
- Lead the product design function collaborating closely with Leadership, Engineering, Product and Marketing teams
- Design the full user journey for Symbiotic's product stack making onchain complexity legible and optimising for clean user flows.
- Surface risk, exposure, and returns so users understand what they're committing to and what happens when conditions change.
- Run user research. You'll interview users, watch how they actually behave, and turn what you find into concrete feature scopes engineering can build from.
- Partner closely with Engineering to define problems, weigh tradeoffs, and design within real protocol constraints rather than around them.
Who You Are
- Deep on-chain fluency: wallets, approvals, signing, gas, transaction lifecycle, chain latency — and a working understanding of how each one constrains what's designable.
- You've shipped a DeFi product to real users, and you can point to it
- A portfolio showing end-to-end product work — systems-level thinking alongside obsessive detail.
- Track record of operating autonomously in fast-moving, ambiguous environments with limited oversight.
- Comfortable without scaffolding: no design team, no design system to inherit, no one queuing your work.
- You run your own research rather than waiting for it to be handed to you.
- Excellent cross-functional communication — you can partner closely with Engineering and hold a position under scrutiny.
- Deep fluency in Figma and modern prototyping workflows.
