Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

About the role

At Ondo Finance, the Senior Product Designer will take ownership of two design systems, focusing on components, design tokens, and user interface design across web and mobile platforms. The role requires collaboration with UI engineers to ensure seamless integration between design and code, while also supporting marketing efforts to maintain brand consistency.

Success in this position involves not only creating visually appealing and accessible designs but also documenting processes and governance around the design systems. The candidate will play a crucial role in shaping the future of institutional-grade financial services, leveraging their expertise in design systems to enhance user experience.

Skills that matter here

• Figma: Advanced skills in Figma are essential for managing design systems and creating scalable components.
• design systems: The role focuses on building and maintaining shared design systems for multiple products.
• UI design: Strong UI design skills are necessary for creating polished interaction details and visual hierarchies.
• accessibility: Knowledge of accessibility standards is crucial for ensuring compliance with WCAG 2.2 AA.
• documentation: Clear documentation is required for usage guidelines and governance processes.
• AI tooling: Experience with AI tooling will enhance workflows and integration within the design system.

Who this role suits

• A seasoned product designer with over six years of experience, including a focus on design systems.
• Collaborative and communicative, able to work closely with engineers on a daily basis.
• Detail-oriented and a systems thinker, capable of seeing both the big picture and the intricate details.
• Proficient in creating accessible designs and adhering to compliance standards.

From the employer

• Own two design systems end to end, institutional and consumer: components, design tokens, theming, patterns, and the Figma libraries behind them, across web and mobile.
• Support the marketing team's design system as needed so brand practice stays consistent and design-to-code stays smooth.
• Define the expressive layer of both systems: visual language, motion principles, and the interaction details that make institutional and consumer products feel considered and alive, not merely correct.
• Design and ship the full stack of the system, from primitives and atoms through molecules and organisms to page templates, with polished interaction details and the visual hierarchy, typography, and layout rigor that trading and financial interfaces demand.
• Partner closely with UI engineers so that tokens and components map cleanly to the production component library, and so Figma and code stay in sync.
• Define how the system works on mobile: platform-appropriate interactions, responsive and adaptive behavior, and parity rules between web and native surfaces.
• Hold the system to WCAG 2.2 AA: color contrast, focus and keyboard behavior, motion, and screen-reader semantics baked into components rather than bolted on.
• Write clear, usable documentation (usage guidelines, do/don't examples, contribution guides) that designers, engineers, and AI agents can all work from.
• Run governance across teams: contribution and review process, versioning and deprecation, adoption tracking, and the forums where product teams propose and resolve system changes.
• Audit the system proactively to find gaps, inconsistencies, and drift across products, then prioritize and drive the fixes without waiting to be asked.
• Use AI tooling as part of daily work: agents, markdown guideline files, and MCP integrations that connect the design system to design and engineering workflows.

• 6+ years in product design, including 3+ years focused on design systems.
• Experience building and scaling a shared design system across multiple products and platforms, web and mobile, including mobile-specific design systems and interactions.
• Strong UI craft: visual hierarchy, typography, layout, and polished interaction details, with a point of view on motion and visual expression and the taste to know when restraint is the right call.
• Builds scalable components and design tokens, including theming (for example light/dark modes or multi-brand).
• A strong understanding of how components and tokens translate into front-end libraries: how components are built, composed, and consumed in code (for example React, React Native, or Swift/Kotlin component libraries), and how tokens flow from Figma into code.
• Advanced Figma skills: variables and modes, auto layout, component properties, and library management at scale.
• A track record of working closely with engineers as a day-to-day partner, not a handoff.
• Strong accessibility knowledge and experience shipping WCAG AA compliant components.
• Writes clear documentation and has run governance across teams: contribution models, review processes, and adoption.
• Fluency with AI tooling in a design or engineering workflow: using agents, writing markdown guideline files, and working with MCP integrations.
• Experience with design-to-code tooling such as Code Connect, token pipelines, or Storybook.
• A systems thinker with sharp attention to detail who sees both the pattern and the pixel.
• A portfolio that showcases design systems work: components, tokens, documentation, and the reasoning behind the decisions.

• Competitive compensation including but not limited to salary, future token rights, and/or equity (according to your preferences) — We are well-funded and believe that great talent deserves great compensation.
• Full benefits (medical, vision, and dental) and flexible vacation policy (PTO).
• Remote-first team across many countries — You will be an early team member helping shape our vision, culture, and design practices.
• A+ colleagues — Our team includes alumni from: Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, Two Sigma, Bridgewater, SpaceX, AWS, Meta, Google, McKinsey, Circle, Uniswap.
• Best-in-class investors — We are proud to be backed by leading crypto experts and VCs, including Pantera Capital, Founders Fund and Coinbase Ventures.