Strong fit for product designers who lead end-to-end design processes and have experience with complex financial products, working in a remote US-based environment with a focus on mobile and desktop design consistency.
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Original posting from Phantom via Ashby
Phantom https://phantom.com is on a mission to connect the world to the freedom of open markets. Tens of millions of people all over the world use Phantom to access global markets that never close, including perpetuals, prediction markets, tokenized assets, stablecoins and memes. Phantom users are able to discover the markets that matter and the cultural moments that shape them, building conviction through real-time data and the verified performance of top traders. With self-custody and access to open networks at its core, Phantom lets them control their financial moves in the same app they use to safely store or spend money worldwide.
Phantom has reached #1 in Google Play's finance category and consistently ranks in the top 50 apps across all categories. Check out our Forbes Fintech 50 https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2026/02/23/inside-phantoms-battle-plan-to-win-the-crypto-fueled-superapp-war/ and CNBC and Statista's World's Top Fintech Companies 2026 https://www.cnbc.com/worlds-top-fintech-companies-2026/!
We are around 180 people, fully remote, backed by a $150M Series C investment from a16z, Sequoia Capital and Paradigm.
ROLE DESCRIPTION
As a Product Designer at Phantom, you will own the design of a dedicated product area and help make complex financial experiences intuitive, clear, and trustworthy. Working closely with Product and Engineering, you will shape direction, explore ideas through prototypes, and carry the details through launch and iteration. Your work will help people discover opportunities, make informed decisions, and trade with confidence.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead end-to-end product design, from understanding user needs and framing the problem to prototyping, implementation, launch, and improvement.
- Partner with PMs and engineers to define priorities, shape product direction, and connect design decisions to meaningful user and business outcomes.
- Design coherent mobile and desktop flows that make complex concepts, transaction states, costs, risks, and next actions easy to understand.
- Explore alternatives with realistic prototypes and use research, analytics, critique, and dogfooding to improve the experience.
- Bring strong visual and interaction craft to complete experiences, including loading, empty, error, recovery, and success states.
- Work closely with Engineering to preserve quality in the shipped product and follow through on feedback after release.
- Reuse and improve shared components and patterns, helping Phantom feel consistent across product areas.
- Communicate decisions, dependencies, and capacity risks early, and contribute constructively to team critique and learning.
QUALIFICATIONS
- A portfolio of shipped consumer products showing ownership of substantial, complex journeys and clear personal contribution.
- Strong product thinking and the ability to turn ambiguous problems into coherent experiences and practical delivery plans.
- Excellent visual and interaction design skills across mobile and desktop, with proficiency in layout, typography, hierarchy, and reusable systems.
- Experience using realistic prototypes to communicate behavior and test important assumptions.
- A record of effective partnership with Product and Engineering, including constructive disagreement and follow-through on implementation quality.
- Clear communication of design rationale, tradeoffs, outcomes, and lessons learned.
- Ability to use user feedback and product evidence to make decisions and improve work after launch.
- Curiosity about crypto and financial products, with the ability to learn complex domains quickly. Prior crypto employment is welcome but is not required.
Why Work With Us
Phantom's journey to becoming a global trading app began with making crypto easier to use. Today, we’re building on that foundation to help people discover the markets that matter, make informed financial moves, and safely store or spend their money worldwide. Joining Phantom means helping shape that next chapter: building products that bring the freedom of open markets to more people.
- Build for global impact: Create products used by tens of millions of people, making innovative financial markets more accessible to users around the world.
- Make complexity feel simple: Solve meaningful challenges across design, engineering, and user experience to make discovering markets and managing money seamless.
- Put users in control: Help build a future where people have greater freedom over their assets and financial decisions, with security and self-custody at the foundation.
Benefits (only available to full-time employees)
- Competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive insurance (medical/dental/vision): base plan 100% covered
- Flexible hours and a long-standing, supportive remote environment
- Unlimited vacation: Take time when you need it (and we really mean it!)
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Wellness stipend
- Weekly meal stipend
- Learning & Development stipend
- Remote / WFH set-up stipend
We strongly encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We believe that our work is stronger with a variety of perspectives, and we’re eager to further diversify our company. If you have a background that you feel would make an impact at Phantom, please consider applying. We’re committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.
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Source: Phantom careers (Ashby)