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title: 'Product Designer at Jito Foundation'
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# Product Designer at Jito Foundation

- **Company:** Jito Foundation
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/jito/97151aba-e3eb-483d-b56c-34711b873760

## Job description

JTX is our trading app, and it runs on the fastest market infrastructure on Solana, which we also built. It’s live today, self-custodial, and native mobile apps are in development. We’re looking for a Product Designer to focus mainly on JTX, but you’ll also have the chance to help with other Jito products as needed. We’re a small team and have already found product-market fit. This shapes the way we work: You’ll make real decisions, not just work through a backlog set by others. We release features and learn from real user feedback, rather than getting stuck in endless debates. Attention to detail is essential here. For a trading product, the small things make all the difference.

## About the Position

You’ll work on UX and UI for both web and native mobile. Right now, our main challenge is making JTX feel clear and trustworthy at a glance, not just functional. You’ll also help keep things consistent between web and mobile, and pitch in on marketing design when needed. You’ll work closely with engineering and product to make the most important decisions. If you’ve ever thought about how traders read a screen under pressure and want to create the product layer that makes speed tangible, this could be the right fit for you.

## What You’ll Do

Design for JTX across web and mobile, including order entry, market data, charts, positions, execution visibility, onboarding, and wallet flows. Take features from defining the problem through UX and final UI. Own and improve the design system and token library that our engineers use. Help with marketing design when needed, like landing pages, social assets, and launch materials. Jump in on design work for other Jito products when the team needs extra help. Release, observe real usage, and keep improving.

## Requirements

Strong product sense: you can explain why a decision is right, not just that it looks good. You can spot issues with hierarchy and clarity on a busy screen and explain what’s causing them. You’re comfortable working across research, UX, and UI, just like any early-stage product designer needs to. You can work independently and bring the team in on important decisions, but not every single one. You’re a true collaborator who communicates proactively and works well with engineering and product. You’re comfortable giving direct feedback on others’ work and receiving it on your own. Here, critique is quick and specific, never personal. You’re fluent in Figma and comfortable working directly with token-based design systems.

## Preferred (not required)

Experience designing consumer (B2C) crypto or fintech products, or hands-on experience as a trader. Trading terminals, exchange or brokerage products. Consumer fintech apps at scale. Data-dense or real-time interfaces, such as dashboards, analytics, or live data visualization. Self-custodial wallets, Solana or EVM products. Experience building or maintaining a token-based design system.

## About Jito Foundation

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Jito Foundation promotes the adoption of Jito Network products, including JitoSOL (Solana’s leading liquid staking protocol) and the MEV infrastructure suite used by top Solana validators.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funded by a16z crypto; $50M total funding as of November 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Arlington, Virginia, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (the Foundation was established by Jito Labs; individual founder names not disclosed in public sources)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Liquid Staking, Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) infrastructure, Solana blockchain ecosystem
- **Target customers**: B2B (Solana validators, DeFi protocols, institutional stakers) and B2C (individual SOL stakers seeking liquidity and yield)
- **Mission**: To facilitate the growth of the Jito Network through decentralized governance by JTO token holders, ensuring transparent MEV distribution and efficient staking infrastructure for the Solana ecosystem.

## Products & Services
- **JitoSOL**: A non-custodial liquid staking token that allows users to stake any amount of SOL and receive auto-compounded rewards amplified by MEV, while maintaining liquidity.
- **Jito MEV Infrastructure**: A suite of tools (including the Jito Block Engine) that enables validators to capture MEV in a transparent, permissionless manner, maximizing rewards and improving network efficiency.
- **Jito Network Governance**: A DAO governed by JTO token holders, with the ability to adjust protocol parameters, manage treasury grants, and approve Jito Improvement Proposals (JIPs). A Security Council provides emergency oversight.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$50M** (led by a16z crypto, November 2025) – the protocol manages billions in staked assets
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: a16z crypto (lead investor), plus a broad network of Solana validators and DeFi protocols
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **128.6% YoY** (LinkedIn reports 10 employees; trulyremotework.com reports ~30 employees – conflicting figures). The JitoSOL protocol is the largest DeFi protocol on Solana by total value staked.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Critical Solana infrastructure**: JitoSOL and the MEV engine are deeply integrated into Solana’s validator ecosystem, creating high switching costs.
- **Liquid staking + MEV yield**: Unique combination of liquid staking with MEV rewards, offering superior yields for stakers.
- **Governance token (JTO)**: Empowers token holders to steer protocol evolution, fostering community ownership and alignment.
- **Flat, autonomous culture**: Small team with high ownership, enabling rapid execution and deep ecosystem ties.

## Strategic Focus
- Improve Solana validator decentralization and MEV distribution.
- Expand from staking and MEV into restaking and other DeFi primitives.
- Maintain transparent, open-source MEV infrastructure.
- Strengthen governance through the DAO and Security Council.

## Why Work Here
- **Work environment**: Fully remote, worldwide with no country restrictions. Must be willing to attend regular EST meetings. High autonomy – team members own their domain end-to-end.
- **Culture**: Flat, lean, and relentlessly effective. Emphasis on empowering multi-talented self-starters. The “Propose Your Dream Job” hiring approach invites candidates to define their own role to drive value for the ecosystem.
- **Compensation**: Competitive USD salary plus JTO token compensation.
- **Tech stack**: Rust, Solana, TypeScript, Python, Go, gRPC, Kubernetes, AWS, Prometheus, Grafana, PostgreSQL, Anchor.
- **Impact**: Work on Solana’s leading liquid staking protocol with direct influence on ecosystem growth and validator performance.

## Sources
1. [lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/jito)
2. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/jito-foundation)
3. [jito.network](https://www.jito.network/docs/governance/constitution-of-the-jito-foundation/)
4. [trulyremotework.com](https://trulyremotework.com/companies/jito-foundation)

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