Senior Product Designer, Developer Foundations

As a Senior Product Designer on the Developer Foundations team at Coinbase, you'll shape the end-to-end experience for developers building on our platform. You own the Developer Portal, including documentation, API dashboards, and onboarding flows that serve as the front door for every external developer integrating with us. You'll turn complex technical workflows into clear, intuitive experiences that drive developer adoption and success at scale.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end design for the Developer Portal, spanning documentation, API dashboards, onboarding flows, and self-service tooling
• Lead design system contributions specific to developer-facing surfaces, ensuring consistency and scalability across the Portal experience
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Developer Relations to identify friction points in the developer journey and ship high-impact improvements
• Drive user research and usability testing with external developers to validate design decisions and uncover unmet needs
• Shape how AI-powered features surface within the Portal, including intelligent search, contextual guidance, and code generation experiences
• Build and maintain design specs, prototypes, and interaction patterns in Figma that serve as the source of truth for engineering delivery

What you bring

• 5+ years of product design experience, with at least 2 years designing developer tools, technical platforms, or documentation experiences
• Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end design for complex, multi-surface products shipped to production
• Proven experience contributing to or maintaining a design system, with a portfolio showing systematic, scalable design thinking
• Proficiency in Figma for design delivery, prototyping, and design system management
• A track record of integrating user research insights into design decisions, with examples of how research changed a shipped outcome
• Ability to use generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $180,370-$212,200 USD, varying by location
• Total compensation includes equity and bonus eligibility
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)
• Quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges"
• Remote-first work arrangement

About Coinbase

Coinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom. The company builds financial infrastructure for the cryptoeconomy, serving developers, institutions, and individuals building on-chain.