Staff Product Designer

Polymarket•New York, NY

24d•$230,000 - $280,000•Onsite

About The Position

About Polymarket Polymarket is the world’s leading prediction market — part financial exchange, part search engine for the future. With over $6B in trading volume this year alone, we’re rapidly becoming a trusted source of truth in an increasingly noisy media landscape. Our mission is to surface accurate, real-time insight into the world’s most important questions — from politics and tech to sports and science. If we succeed, we’ll redefine how people discover, debate, and understand what’s likely to happen next. We’re a small, focused team based in NYC, and we’re looking for exceptional people to help shape the future of information. About the Role We’re hiring a Staff Product Designer at Polymarket. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role where you’ll help define the product’s direction and craft the core user experience from first principles. We’re not a place where roadmaps are handed down or specs are set in stone. We’re looking for someone who thrives in ambiguity — someone who sees undefined spaces as creative opportunities and has the initiative to bring structure, insight, and beauty to complex problems. You’ll collaborate closely with the Founder and leadership team, owning design end-to-end: from understanding our users and defining product narratives to shipping thoughtful, high-precision interfaces.

Requirements

10+ years of experience designing high-quality consumer products, ideally in early-stage or zero-to-one environments
A portfolio that shows you can think at the system level while sweating the details
Strong visual and interaction design skills, plus fluency in tools like Figma, Cursor, or V0
Clear, thoughtful communication — whether you’re sharing work, making a case, or putting together a presentation
A bias towards ownership and action: you know how to figure out what matters, even when the path isn’t obvious
Deep curiosity about markets, incentives, and the future of truth

Nice To Haves

experience working in fintech, crypto, or data-rich products
exposure to trading, DeFi, or financial systems — or a hunger to learn quickly

Responsibilities

Lead with autonomy. You’ll define and drive design work from scratch — identifying what needs to be done while raising the quality bar, and collaborating closely with engineers and leadership to bring ideas to life.
Design for clarity and depth. Our product touches prediction markets, finance, and social networks. Your job is to make these powerful tools feel accessible, intuitive, and engaging.
Prototype quickly and test ideas. You’ll use tools like Figma, Cursor, and light code to explore concepts, validate assumptions, and refine interfaces based on real feedback.
Develop insights through research. You’ll talk to users, analyze behavior, and extract meaningful patterns that inform product direction.
Define and evolve our design system. You’ll create the standards and systems that keep our product cohesive as it grows.
Act as a force-multiplier. You’ll raise the bar — not just through your own work, but by modeling great thinking, process, and collaboration across the company.