Product Designer, Digital Assets

About Anchorage Digital

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.

The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn.

The Role of a Product Designer, Digital Assets

Product Designers at Anchorage Digital develop a deep understanding of the products we build and the problems we solve in order to create new patterns that meld traditional financial workflows with the world of crypto. We design solutions to questions with no precedent for institutional users. How do we make the experience of sending funds secure, but also highly efficient? How do we balance the human need for privacy with the open and transparent nature of the blockchain? How do clients express their opinion in on-chain proposals with the newest digital assets?

As a Product Designer, Digital Assets, you'll join a team of intentional, collaborative, and relentlessly curious designers, shaping the future of finance by redefining how institutions interact with digital assets across custody, banking, trading, and settlement products.

Factors of Growth & Impact

We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Product Designer, Digital Assets role:

Technical Skills:

• Pairs with Product and Engineering to do research and engage with customers, explores a broad range of solutions, concepts and detailed designs and narrows down to the best solution using strong rationale.
• Is able to anticipate gaps and opportunities in customer understanding that drive real business impact and can think strategically about long term decisions.
• Is very proficient with sketching, flow diagrams, interface design tools and prototyping tools and use these regularly in their daily work.
• Designs connected, holistic and modular systems that help us move faster in the future.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Leads large, strategic and complex projects or processes, or open-ended and ambiguous problems that peers, technical leads, and managers agree are significantly challenging or have a clear impact on the success of Anchorage. Applies conceptual thinking to understand the issues and its implications.
• Breaks down complex projects into simple initiatives and processes that can be effectively built and maintained by the team. Prioritizes work within the team or project, and helps others understand the value of what they are contributing to.
• Understands how their product impacts other products and departments, drives alignment with the broader Product, Design and Engineering team.
• Impacts business direction through the development and design of innovative services or products.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Collaborate with multiple layers of stakeholders to turn the team strategy into a product vision.
• Promotes a shared understanding of the needs of Anchorage and strategic direction to rally teams. Develops and implements programs, projects and processes aligned with Anchorage strategic direction and needs.

Communication and Influence:

• Communicates complex issues clearly and credibly across a wide range of audiences, and partners with other senior members to re-communicate vision, mission, and strategy as well as positive impacts for clients and for our roadmap.
• Highly effective communication skills. Writes and presents concisely and clearly, uses storytelling to communicate the work in an engaging way.

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• Have 8+ years of experience in designing world-class complex enterprise products.
• Have knowledge of financial and crypto products.
• Can define the strategy, and solve complex challenges across iOS and Web to turn simplicity out of complexity.
• Have the ability to take ownership of the design process, think holistically, and articulate design decisions that deliver both user and business value.
• Have a deep understanding of how to create usable, accessible modular designs that can scale.
• Have excellent communication and proven ability to lead in cross-functional environments.
• Have experience partnering with product managers and engineers to develop the strategy and rationale for product features.
• Are able to give, receive feedback and guide other designers.
• Have some special combination of the following: creative, humble, detail-oriented, self-aware, curious, thoughtful, and tenacious.
• Have a compelling portfolio of work that demonstrates high-quality design work that also tells a story that you are a design thinker.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• You have designed for the crypto or finance space (i.e traditional banking, settlement solutions, asset custody).
• You have experience in designing for institutional users in the digital finance space.

About Anchorage Digital: Who we are

The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 600 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.

Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

Key skills/competency

• Product Design
• Digital Assets
• UX/UI Design
• Enterprise Products
• Financial Services
• Cryptocurrency
• Prototyping
• Stakeholder Collaboration
• Strategic Thinking
• Design Systems