Gelato is the Onchain Cloud Platform powering the most ambitious teams in crypto to build the next generation of Web3 applications. Whether you’re launching a blockchain, building smart wallets, or enabling gasless transactions, Gelato gives developers the tools to create seamless onchain experiences.
It’s the infrastructure behind some of the best teams in crypto, like Kraken, who used Gelato RaaS to launch Ink, a leading Layer 2; Gemini, who are building novel smart wallets with Gelato’s SDK; and Infinex, who use Gelato’s Gasless APIs to give users effortless access to over 100 chains.
As Product Designer at Gelato, you’ll take full ownership of the end-to-end design process, from ideation and prototyping to user testing and production. You’ll collaborate closely with the founders, product manager, and front-end engineer to shape the design direction, define user journeys, and craft intuitive, visually distinctive interfaces. Drawing on Gelato’s evolving visual identity, you’ll help build and refine systems that support a seamless, delightful experience for developers and users across our platform.
What things will look like.
- As a solo designer, you’ll autonomy and accountability to lead our design direction.
- This isn’t going to look like your usual dark mode, lumo DEX UI with gradients.
- You’ll play an instrumental role in architecting our systems, working with our other FE engineer, our CTO (co-founder) and product manager.
- Own the end-to-end user journey and all aspects of design execution from ideation, to prototyping, to user testing, to final production
- Draw upon our new visual identity and take it to new heights working hand-in-hand with our in-house graphic designer.
- Deeply involved in discovery including speaking to users.
- Ideate frequently with our founders (CEO and CTO).
- We prioritise learning and shipping. We keep processes minimal.
- Craft delightful experiences
- We avoid unnecessary meetings. We plan on Mondays and do demos on Fridays. That’s pretty much it. We have ad hoc working sessions and do async daily updates.
- 5+ years of Product Design experience
- Exemplary product thinking abilities, solutions oriented, and capable of working autonomously
- Balances principle led thinking with pragmatism
- Proven track record of working within a product team to ship successful products to users
- Sharp attention to detail and mastery over your craft: visual design, interaction design, and prototyping
- Strong cross-functional communication and stakeholder management experience
- Thrives in fast-paced (sometimes ambiguous) environment
- Fluency in Figma
- Low ego, loves to collaborate, and open minded
- Avid user of crypto
Nice to haves
- Design experience working on B2B financial products such as fintech, trading or anythng regarding the movement of money.
- Crypto industry experience. You don’t need to have worked in crypto before joining
- Small, fully remote team with an office in Zug, Switzerland
- Build the next generation of decentralised tech & become the infrastructure of the most promising dApps on Ethereum and Celestia
- Generous token vestings paid in the network’s native $GEL token
- Travel to cool locations
- Worldclass Investors – We are backed by the community, including industry leading experts such as DragonFly Capital, ParaFi, IDEO, GalaxyDigital, IOSG, Gnosis, and the two largest Venture DAOs (The LAO, Metacartel Ventures)
