Founding Product Designer

THE 4 BIGGEST BLOCKCHAIN STRENGTHS ARE ALSO ITS WEAKNESS

• Permissionless nature leads to fragmentation of meaning

• Decentralization leads to too many standards https://xkcd.com/927/

• Immutability leads to exponential data + query infrastructure complexity

• Neutrality means that no one is accountable for interpretations

Blockchain data is public. It is not usable at institutional scale. Despite being open, blockchain data is fragmented, hard to interpret, and painful to maintain. Even a simple question like “Who are the largest Ethereum token holders over time?” can require running nodes, ingesting full chain history, decoding contracts, cleaning edge cases, and writing complex SQL.

BLOCKCHAINS ARE OPTIMIZED FOR WRITES, NOT READS.

They are built for consensus and execution, not searchability, standardization, or financial interpretation. Blockchains are computers, not databases https://x.com/Tim_Roughgarden/status/1512847113599729668. Every protocol defines its own schema. The same economic action can be encoded in dozens of different ways. The result:

• Fragmented standards

• Exponential complexity

• No accountability for interpretation

• Events without economic meaning

Finance cannot operate on that, it needs an effective system of record.

ALLIUM IS BUILDING THE SYSTEM OF RECORD FOR ONCHAIN FINANCE

Allium ingests, verifies, and standardizes data across 140+ blockchains and 30+ petabytes of history. We close four structural gaps that prevent blockchains from becoming systems of record:

• Semantic Gap: Translating raw events into financial concepts like payments, trades, deposits, and staking income

• Standardization Gap: Mapping thousands of protocols into a single canonical cross chain schema

• Infrastructure Gap: Read optimized, globally distributed data at web scale

• Accountability Gap: Auditable methodology, SLAs, and SOC 1 and 2 compliance

The result is a neutral, canonical data layer institutions can build on with confidence.

FINANCE IS MOVING ONCHAIN

Stablecoins, tokenized assets, trading, staking, and lending are growing rapidly. Institutions need a trusted source of truth for onchain financial activity, just as they rely on Bloomberg or DTCC in traditional markets. Raw blockchains cannot serve that role.

As AI agents begin transacting autonomously https://x.com/AlliumLabs/status/2019810793324482901?s=20, the requirement becomes even stricter. Agents cannot reason over raw event logs. They need structured data, attribution, condition checks, and auditability.

Allium is the read layer that makes onchain finance usable for humans and machines.

WHO WE SERVE

Allium powers three core personas with the same canonical data foundation:

and of course.. agents 🦞. Our customers and users include Visa, Stripe, G-SIB Banks, Big 4 Accounting firms, BCG, Coinbase, Phantom, Uniswap and cited by the Federal Reserve.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Allium builds data-dense, information-heavy products for some of the most advanced teams in crypto and finance. We ingest millions of on-chain events, normalize thousands of schemas, and surface insights that help everyone from protocol teams to hedge funds understand what’s actually happening on-chain.

We’re hiring our first designer — a Founding Product Designer who loves making sense of complexity and wants real ownership. You’ll define the design language, systems, and standards for Allium’s product surface area, while shaping how customers explore, visualize, and act on blockchain data.

This role is for a designer who gets energy from working with messy datasets, building intuitive interfaces for sophisticated users, and crafting visual systems that scale across charts, dashboards, workflows, and power-user tools. You’ll have a seat at the table on product direction and the opportunity to build the design function from the ground up.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• End-to-end product design ownership — Build experiences from high-level information architecture down to micro-interactions, UI states, and visual polish across complex data workflows.

• Craft high-fidelity data visualizations — Turn intricate on-chain behavior, market dynamics, and messy datasets into intuitive charts, dashboards, and exploratory surfaces.

• Design with deep technical context — Work closely with product, engineering, and data teams to understand schemas, query outputs, and system constraints, then translate them into usable, elegant interfaces.

• Build Allium’s first design system — Define components, patterns, chart styles, color systems, and layout structures from scratch, ensuring consistency across a rapidly expanding product suite.

• Prototype new interaction models — Explore novel ways to help users navigate chain abstractions, wallet flows, cross-protocol analytics, and large-scale entity relationships.

• Establish design culture from day zero — As the founding designer, shape rituals like crits, reviews, collaboration workflows, and documentation standards for future design hires.

• Drive usability and iteration cycles — Run rapid feedback loops with power users to ensure clarity and intuitiveness across dense, analytical interfaces.

• Partner cross-functionally — Collaborate with growth, marketing, and customer teams to understand user workflows and translate insights into product improvements.

• Elevate visual expression — Push Allium’s product aesthetic toward precision, trustworthiness, and technical excellence.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

• Deep experience with data-rich products — 5+ years designing dashboards, analytical tools, financial interfaces, or complex technical workflows.

• A portfolio that shows mastery of complexity — Clear examples of turning dense, noisy, or abstract information into legible and intuitive UIs.

• Domain familiarity — Experience in crypto, fintech, trading, analytics, or financial data products — or the ability to learn these domains incredibly fast.

• Power-user UX sensibilities — Comfort designing advanced filters, fast workflows, keyboard interactions, and dense-but-readable layouts.

• Strong UX clarity instincts — Ability to simplify without losing precision and organize information for highly analytical users.

• Cross-functional fluency — Ease working alongside engineers and data teams; comfort with schemas, edge cases, and product-level constraints.

• Design systems expertise — Experience creating reusable component libraries that scale across multiple surfaces and use cases.

• Clear communication & low-ego collaboration — Ability to articulate design decisions and work closely with product, engineering, and GTM partners.

• Curiosity for crypto & data systems — Interest in how on-chain systems behave, or a drive to understand the space deeply.

BONUS POINTS

• Crypto analytics experience — Explorers, dashboards, trading tools, attribution systems.

• Visualization or HCI background — Especially experience with complex visual or analytical interfaces.

• Technical fluency — Comfort with SQL, data tools, or charting libraries.

• Founding designer experience — Thrived as a first design hire or built design processes from scratch.

• Systems-thinking mindset — A fascination with abstractions and the craft of turning complexity into understanding.

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