Senior Designer

Job Description

At Hiro, we build developer tools that bring Web3 to Bitcoin. Our suite of tools unlocks the full potential of Bitcoin through smart contracts, digital assets, and decentralized applications. With Hiro tools, developers can test and deploy smart contracts, spin up nodes and other server-side resources for scaling, and more. Building on Bitcoin is hard. Hiro's developer tools make it easier. We’re very proud to say that Hiro won 4 Built In’s Best Places to Work awards, including U.S. Best Startups to Work For, Remote Best Startups to Work For, Remote Best Places to Work, and New York Best Startups to Work For!Hiro is funded and backed by more than $75 million from Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, Lux Capital, Winklevoss Capital, Naval Ravikant, and others.About The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Senior Designer with a passion for great design to join our remote-first team at Hiro. In this critical role, you'll help ensure developers can build and scale applications using the Stacks blockchain, with Hiro tools. You will share responsibility for leading the company’s design efforts, with a primary focus on product design and support for brand and visual design initiatives. You’ll also contribute to fostering a strong design culture across the company.What You'll Do

  • Own design initiatives for the Hiro products and Hiro brand.
  • Work closely with engineers to understand technical possibilities and limitations, ensuring a smooth design-to-development handoff.
  • Maintain and evolve Hiro’s design system, ensuring consistency and quality across both product and brand.
  • Collaborate across different teams, including Brand, DevRel, Marketing, and People, to support company-wide design needs.
  • Collaborate on continuous product discovery, experimentation, and problem-solving.

What We’re Looking For

  • Proven experience independently managing the full design process from start to finish, whether focused on product and/or brand design.
  • Experience working on consumer or technical apps, with a strong eye for both visual aesthetics and usability.
  • Experience collaborating with front-end engineers to prepare ‘implementation-ready’ designs.
  • Experience working with brand assets and translating brand vision into product and marketing collateral
  • Familiarity with the developer mindset as well as comfort with reading through technical materials and participating in technical conversations

What We’d Like To See

  • 7+ years crafting high-quality UX and UI for early- or growth-stage startups in a lead or senior role
  • Experience leading brand identity projects or collaborating with brand designers
  • 5+ years of regular experience with Figma or equivalent collaborative-design application
  • Familiarity with user testing platforms (e.g., Usertesting.com) or experience supporting user research.
  • Experience working with GitHub for project management
  • Experience building design systems

We’d love to hear from you even if you don’t have experience or interest in every bullet. There’s no perfect candidate and we want to find the right fit, even if it’s different than we imagine. We especially would like to meet underrepresented/underestimated candidates.

What We’ll Offer

  • Competitive NYC based Salary(regardless of location, benchmarked annually) $138,000 - $150,000
  • Company equity and Stacks (STX) tokens- (STX is the native cryptocurrency of the Stacks network)
  • $500/mo co-working space reimbursement
  • $1,200/yr budget for learning and development stipend
  • $1000/yr of charity donation matching to an organization of your choosing
  • Daily Lunch Reimbursement(even if you’re remote!)
  • Open Vacation Policy, take the days you need
  • Family-Friendly Health Benefits
  • Free Life and Disability Insurance
  • Health and dependent care(FSA)
  • Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • 401k with 3% match
  • Your choice of technical setup and equipment

Please note that benefits vary by country, the ones shown above are for our full time U.S. based employees. Benefit information for non-US based positions will be provided to individuals who interview for those roles.

About Us

Please note that benefits vary by country, the ones shown above are for our full time U.S. based employees. Benefit information for non-US based positions will be provided to individuals who interview for those roles. Due to legal and logistical constraints, we are currently only able to hire candidates residing in the United States, Canada, and select countries in the EU.

Hiro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and deeply cares about building a diverse team. Hiro is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by law.

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Location:
USA Remote
Type:
Full-time
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Job posted:
December 10, 2024
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