The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is a global non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Ethereum and related technologies. Our mission is to do what is best for Ethereum’s long-term success. Our role is to allocate resources to critical projects, to be a valued voice within the Ethereum ecosystem, and to advocate for Ethereum to the outside world.
The journey into Ethereum is complicated and intimidating for the average person, whether it's learning the basics of the technology, buying their first ETH and setting up a wallet, discovering dapps, or exploring how to get involved in the ecosystem, e.g. by running a node, becoming a staker, or learning to build their first decentralized application with smart contracts. We're looking for a talented product designer who can bring simplicity, excitement, and inspiration to this journey.
You'll lead the design of ethereum.org and other Ethereum Foundation products that onboard millions of monthly visitors into the Ethereum ecosystem. We're a small, scrappy team of entrepreneurs who each wear multiple hats. You'll work hands on with our product and engineering team to create intuitive, rewarding and accessible web applications for a global and diverse range of users. You'll leverage user testing and design best practices to create a world-class experience that empowers the next generation of Ethereum users and builders.
- You're an ambitious product designer. You're interested in owning the full design lifecycle of our web products - you're able to take rough mockups or product specifications and turn them into production-ready screens. You are growth-minded and enjoy some amount of ambiguity, autonomy, and freedom to experiment in a fast-paced environment.
- You're a great teammate. You have excellent attention to detail and organizational skills. You're an effective communicator, with the ability to articulate your ideas and present your work, and adapt to feedback or engineering constraints. You're comfortable collaborating with a cross-functional team in a remote environment.
- You have an ownership mentality. When you take on a task, you get it done. You proactively seek feedback and troubleshoot problems blocking your path or the paths of others. You're excited to jump on opportunities outside of your "core responsibilities" to expand your role, your skillset, and your impact. You, like us, value user outcomes over polished proposals or design handoffs. Your deliverable is the team's deliverable: incremental improvements to our products.
- You have an opinionated sense of design. You value user research and testing but you have an intuitive sense of how to create simple, intuitive, accessible interfaces. You care about design principles and design systems and have a vision on how to iterate towards excellence.
- You're fascinated by Ethereum... the community as much as the technology. You're enthusiastic about open source and designing in public. You're a self-starter with a curiosity to learn about the fast changing and exciting industry which is crypto. You care deeply about bringing this technology mainstream and improving the onboarding experience for a diverse range of Ethereum users.
- Lead the design efforts of our products from initial concept to deployment and beyond. Translate complex cutting-edge technology concepts into highly usable and intuitive web pages and interactive products.
- Create storyboards, wireframes, lo-fi sketches, prototypes, and high-fidelity visual designs to meet the needs of different stages of our product development lifecycle.
- Participate in regular design reviews where you’ll seek out specific input on your designs and incorporate relevant feedback.
- Help establish the Ethereum brand on ethereum.org by creating guidelines, utilizing and expanding on our design system and visual language.
- Fuel design and product ideas through an holistic understanding of the objectives of different Ethereum users via market research and user testing.
- Work beyond just delivering designs; evaluate, evolve, and optimize your work to provide the best, most valuable user experiences.
- Push to improve design and development processes by building, design systems, research methodologies, identifying efficiencies, and communicating best practices.
- You have 2+ years of professional web and/or mobile product design experience.
- Fluency in Figma or similar design/prototyping tools, experience with GitHub collaboration, and comfort with iterative product development lifecycles.
- Excellence in UX thinking, visual design, and written communication
- You're an excellent teammate - you're an effective, efficient communicator with the ability to work collaboratively and inclusively with a remote team.
- Experience leading and managing several complex projects simultaneously.
- Expertise documenting interaction details, visual design specifications and QA of the implemented product.
- You're passionate about the the crypto/blockchain space, have dabbled with Ethereum applications, and are excited to dive deeper into the world of Web3 product design.
- Proven track record of working closely with product, engineering and content teams to ship successful products.
- Flexibility and excitement for early stage teams with evolving frameworks, processes, and roadmaps.
- Content design or copywriting experience is a big plus.
- Experience in other areas of design, such a design research & UX.
- Have designed Web3 app UIs.
- Deep understanding of blockchain, its use cases, and user journeys.
- Experience with accessibility and inclusive design practices.
- You are comfortable with the fundamental web development technologies (HTML, CSS, DOM, etc).
- You're interested in learning to prototype designs directly in the codebase.
- This is a part-time contract, remote position with the potential to extend to a full-time position.
- Timing on this position is still TBD but we'd likely want this person to begin by December 2021.
- Compensation will ultimately depend on your experience, skillset, and the contract structure but you can expect ~$40-50 per hour.
- This role is location agnostic anywhere in the world, but we ask that you overlap some working hours with Pacific Time.