Design Lead

At Mirror, our mission is to use web3 technology in order to reimagine the ways people publish, fund projects, and build communities online. We are a small, passionate team with a breadth of experience that has been building in web3 for years. Together, we aspire to build products that are beautiful and intuitive, without compromising on user sovereignty or decentralization.

The Company

Mirror is a web3-native publishing platform that powers a new writing ecosystem. Writers on Mirror don’t just publish, they build communities and fund projects using NFTs. Readers on Mirror don’t just consume content, they collect and become patrons, and discover new projects and writers in each other’s collections. All of this happens within a tightly integrated web3 product that is centered around an intuitive editor that allows writers to incorporate smart contract-based economic blocks.

We’re a remote first company.  We've raised close to $14 million from investors that include a16z crypto, Union Square Ventures and Variant.

Responsibilities

• Enthusiastically lead and motivate a design team innovating in the web3 space
• Steer our full team through the entire design process from conception to launch
• Collaborate with engineering and product to research, design and ship new and improved products that increase the clarity and user agency of web3 publishing and community building
• Simultaneously drive and deliver multiple design projects
• Use a human-centered approach that incorporates qualitative and quantitative data in order to create conceptual wireframes, prototypes and high fidelity designs
• Provide design direction and standards that are inspired by a design to enable creators to fund and sustain their practice in novel ways
• Contribute to creation of a unified design system that increases the velocity of the frontend engineering team

Requirements

• A track record of defining and executing on new and ambiguous ideas
• 5+ years of experience as a Product Designer on user-facing applications
• Comfortable with all aspects of design process including research, wireframing, low & high fidelity design and prototyping
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills
• Experience mentoring and inspiring a team of designers, including by providing constructive feedback and guidance
• Experience designing with Figma
• A strong desire to design within the context of web3

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Ethereum and web3, and the nuances of foundational crypto concepts including wallets, tokens, smart contracts and trustless transactions
• Enjoys writing (so as to have empathy with users)