Senior Visual Designer
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Overview
Ellipsis Labs is looking for a Senior Visual Designer to elevate the visual language of their DeFi products. The role involves crafting cohesive designs for trading interfaces and collaborating with engineering teams. Ellipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York-based startup building sustainable and efficient DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure. Our long-term goal is to build a better financial system. Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana. Building on our experience developing efficient markets, Ellipsis Labs also operates SolFi, a proprietary automated market maker that provides efficient liquidity for key trading pairs. Our foundational product, Phoenix Legacy, is a limit order book on the Solana blockchain that established our expertise in operating high-performance markets. Combined, these products have facilitated over $285B in trading volume across Solana markets.
What you'll do
- •Own the visual system for Phoenix and future products: typography, color, spacing, iconography, design tokens, and component theming.
- •Turn complex trading mechanics and data into clear, scannable visual hierarchies and data visualizations that perform under real-time constraints.
- •Build and maintain a Figma library/design system, ensuring consistency and speed of implementation; provide developer-ready specs and assets.
- •Drive visual polish on critical surfaces (order entry, positions, charts, risk states), including loading/empty/error states and micro-interactions/motion.
- •Partner closely with engineers to ensure visual fidelity in production and pragmatic choices under technical constraints.
- •Own the company and product brand expression across product surfaces and key moments.
- •Incorporate feedback, user signals, and metrics to iterate quickly without sacrificing craft.
Required
- •2+ years designing visual systems for complex digital products, ideally high-density or data-heavy (trading/finance, analytics, dev tools, etc.).
- •Portfolio demonstrating strong visual craft (type, color, layout), system thinking (tokens/components), and clear data presentation.
- •Fluency in Figma (components/variants, auto-layout) and handoff practices; attention to detail across states and edge cases.
- •Comfort collaborating with engineers; ability to balance visual quality with performance and feasibility.
- •High ownership and bias to ship; you sweat the details and move quickly.
Preferred
- •Familiarity with crypto/Web3 design patterns and user behaviors.
- •Exposure to Solana or similar blockchain ecosystems.