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Senior Product Designer

Aave Labs Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)

Remote $100,000 - $130,000 Full-time Senior

The role involves designing end-to-end product experiences across web and mobile platforms, translating complex DeFi mechanics and data flows into intuitive, user-centered interfaces. Responsibilities also include contributing to the design system, ensuring design vision alignment with engineering, and partnering with product teams on problem definition.

Responsibilities

  • Design end-to-end product experiences across web and mobile products, from early exploration through polished UI
  • Translate DeFi mechanics and data-heavy flows into intuitive, user-centered interfaces
  • Create high-quality mockups and interactive prototypes that clearly communicate intent
  • Contribute to and evolve Aave’s design system, ensuring consistency, scalability, and craft
  • Work closely with engineering to ensure what ships matches the design vision
  • Partner with product to shape problem definition, user flows, and success criteria
  • Think through edge cases, error states, and loading scenarios, not just the happy path
  • Utilize the latest AI tools in day-to-day work

Requirements

  • Strong product design fundamentals, with hierarchy, typography, spacing, interaction, and systems thinking being second nature
  • Experience designing complex digital products, with fintech, trading, dashboards, developer tools, or similar technical spaces being a plus
  • Comfortable working in ambiguity and helping shape problems, not just solutions
  • Experience contributing to or working within a design system
  • Genuine eye for detail, noticing when something feels off, inconsistent, or unfinished
  • Confident collaborating cross-functionally with product and engineering
  • Able to clearly articulate design rationale and give/receive thoughtful critique

Key Skills

Product Design Digital Products Fintech Trading Dashboards Developer Tools Technical Spaces Ambiguity Problem-Shaping Design Systems Attention to Detail Cross-Functional Collaboration Design Rationale Critique DeFi Data-Heavy Flows User-Centered Design Interactive Prototypes Design Vision Engineering Collaboration Product Partnership Edge Cases Error States Loading Scenarios AI Tools

About Aave Labs

Aave Labs is the original author and key contributor of the Aave Protocol and a software technology company founded by Stani Kulechov. The team builds blockchain-based products that power decentralized finance, including the Aave Protocol, the Aave-native stablecoin GHO, and Horizon, an institutional platform for borrowing against tokenized real-world assets. Aave is DeFi’s largest and most trusted lending protocol, where users can earn, borrow, save, and swap alongside millions of others worldwide.

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