Lead Product Designer

About Livepeer
Livepeer is the video layer of the web3 stack. It processes millions of minutes of video a week to applications in production every week. As a blockchain-based protocol that has been live on Ethereum since 2018, the Livepeer Protocol is one of the first web3 networks to deliver real-world value to an existing multi-billion dollar industry. It achieves this through an open-source, blockchain coordinated, p2p network of hardware operators running infrastructure processing video around the world.

What we’re looking for
Livepeer Inc, the initial team behind Livepeer, is looking for an experienced, self-driven product designer. We care deeply about design. For us, it’s both how it works and how it looks. Our flagship product, Livepeer Studio, is a developer and creator tool where speed, interactions, and small details matter. We are designing it to be highly functional, yet minimalistic and delightful. We expect a broad set of design skills, and ability to create high-quality designs, interactions and prototypes.

Responsibilities
Contribute to the overall product and design direction of the whole company
Work cross-functionally with engineers and other partners
Come up with features and improvements that ship quickly and with high quality
Use and evolve our internal design system
Create flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals for your features
Work closely with engineers and other partners to ensure a high-quality implementation
Help with hiring and establishing a design culture within the company
Redefining best-in-class software design and development processes so that we can build an opinionated product

What we value
Passion for design and figuring out best in class solutions to UX, UI and interaction challenges
Ability to think through complex interaction design
Expressing ideas through visuals and prototyping (Livepeer Inc uses Figma)
Expertise in creating and maintaining design systems and components.
Compassionate and confident when giving feedback to others on the team, and humble when receiving feedback.
A desire to gather, understand and convert a lot of complex information into visual and compelling content that is both engaging and informative.
A strong work ethic, take ownership, and proof-check your work with high accuracy. Know how to balance perfectionism with agile deliverables.
Emotional intelligence to think through design problems with partners and arrive at thoughtful solutions.
Extra points if you have experience within Crypto.

Note on applying
When it comes to your portfolio, show us your design work.

What we want to see:
Visuals and prototypes
Design iterations
Specifically how you made something better
What we don’t need to see:
Drawings and whiteboard sketches
Metrics
Writing about design (show us design)

Interview process
Initial Phone Interview
First and Second Round Interview
Reference Checks

About the team
Our mission is to build the world’s open video infrastructure, enabling instantly scalable, reliable, and affordable video streaming. We are a remote team, but that doesn’t stop us from collaborating closely. We have high standards, striving for excellence in every iteration by being curious, agile, and pragmatic.

We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We are committed to providing a community and environment for mutual respect, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We believe diversity and inclusion are crucial to our success and seek to recruit/develop from a diverse candidate pool.

Resources to learn more about Livepeer
The Livepeer Primer
Day in the Life of Livepeer team members – Yondon Fu
Livepeer snags $20M for decentralized video transcoding
Messari Profile
Grayscale Livepeer Report