Product Designer

About This Role

Oku is scaling, and we need the best and brightest to make Oku the best exchange.

As a Product Designer at Oku, you’ll shape users’ experience onchain by crafting intuitive interfaces that make complex blockchain interactions accessible to users. You’ll work closely with our engineering team to design seamless experiences across all the primary exchange functions, like trading, on/off-ramping, and moving funds across blockchains, all while maintaining consistency and usability.

You’ll be responsible for the end-to-end design process, from initial user flows to high-fidelity mockups, creating designs that balance technical complexity with user-friendly interactions. Your work will directly influence how users understand and interact with cross-chain applications, requiring both creative problem-solving and attention to technical constraints.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a comprehensive design system in Figma that scales across a large scope
• Design intuitive user flows for complex onchain operations
• Develop interactive prototypes to test and validate design solutions
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure feasible and pixel-perfect implementation
• Create and maintain design documentation and component libraries
• Lead design reviews and gather feedback from stakeholders
• Research and implement blockchain UX best practices
• Iterate on designs based on user feedback and technical requirements

What You’ll Design

• User interfaces for trading and on/off-ramping
• Visual systems for representing blockchain states and transactions
• Responsive layouts that work across all devices
• Interactive prototypes for new features
• Reusable component libraries and design systems

This role offers the opportunity to tackle unique design challenges in the blockchain space while working with a talented engineering team to bring your designs to life.

You might be great for this role if you have

• 1+ years of experience in Web3 DeFi
• 2+ years of experience as a product designer
• Robust knowledge of Figma and designing for developers
• Attention to detail with excellent organizational and communication skills
• You thrive in an environment where you have significant independence
• You are proactive and driven by curiosity
• You have a strong work ethic with disciplined execution skills

We’d love to hear from you if…

• You love tackling ambitious projects with the ability to change DeFi as we know it
• You care about all aspects of customer experience
• You can see things from a high level, and dive into the details with equal confidence
• You think DeFi can improve day-to-day financial tooling

… and you really care about these details

• You want to create brand new experiences
• You can operate autonomously
• You are proactive and driven by curiosity
• You can build robust systems on both web and native platforms
• You can handle complexity, but prefer simplicity

Tools we are using today

• Figma
• Linear
• GitHub

Application Process

The application includes 4 short audio screening questions and takes about 12 minutes to complete.