Senior Product Designer, Developer Foundations
About the role
Senior Product Designer on the Developer Foundations team, shaping end-to-end experience for developers building on Coinbase. Owns the Developer Portal (documentation, API dashboards, onboarding flows) and leads design system contributions for developer-facing surfaces, partnering across teams to improve the developer journey and surface AI-powered features.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end design for the Developer Portal, spanning documentation, API dashboards, onboarding flows, and self-service tooling.
- Lead design system contributions specific to developer-facing surfaces, ensuring consistency and scalability across the Portal experience.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and Developer Relations to identify friction points in the developer journey and ship high-impact improvements.
- Drive user research and usability testing with external developers to validate design decisions and uncover unmet needs.
- Shape how AI-powered features surface within the Portal, including intelligent search, contextual guidance, and code generation experiences.
- Build and maintain design specs, prototypes, and interaction patterns in Figma that serve as the source of truth for engineering delivery.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of product design experience, with at least 2 years designing developer tools, technical platforms, or documentation experiences.
- Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end design for complex, multi-surface products shipped to production.
- Proven experience contributing to or maintaining a design system, with a portfolio showing systematic, scalable design thinking.
- Proficiency in Figma for design delivery, prototyping, and design system management.
- Track record of integrating user research insights into design decisions, with examples of how research changed a shipped outcome.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Skills
Benefits
- Medical Plan, Dental and Vision Plan with generous employee contributions
- Health Savings Account with company contributions each pay period
- Disability and Life Insurance
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Wellness Stipend
- Mobile/Internet Reimbursement
- Volunteer Time Off
- Fertility Counseling and Benefits
- Generous Time off/Leave Policy
- The option of getting paid in digital currency

About Coinbase
Buy, sell, and manage cryptocurrencies.
Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone. Two principles guide our efforts. First, be the most trusted company in our domain. Second, create user-focused products that are easier and more intuitive to use.
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