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title: 'Senior Product Designer at Symbiotic'
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# Senior Product Designer at Symbiotic

- **Company:** Symbiotic
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/symbiotic/ffc40ecb-169d-4027-bd5b-326e5710b897

## Job description

## About Symbiotic

Symbiotic is the infrastructure beneath collateral markets, where capital can secure financial obligations, remain productive, and be enforced by code. By changing the economics of onchain collateral, Symbiotic enables new categories of neofinance applications that were previously impossible to build - including credit, insurance, RWA liquidity, and more. As institutional capital increasingly moves onchain, Symbiotic is positioned to become the coordination layer connecting capital and risk across the onchain economy.

Backed by Paradigm, Pantera, [Cyber.fund](http://Cyber.fund), and Coinbase Ventures, we power 80+ vaults, 74,000+ active stakers, and 111 operators - with Chainlink and Cap Labs among the teams live in production.

See how Symbiotic is powering the next generation of onchain finance: [symbiotic.fi](http://symbiotic.fi)

Our People

We’re a tight-knit team of experienced builders working at the forefront of financial infrastructure. Our backgrounds span high-growth tech start-ups, leading crypto companies, major banks, insurers, and financial institutions. We work with ownership, a high bar for craft, and the urgency of an early-stage company - in an environment where people are trusted to take initiative and supported to do their best work. We’re looking for talented professionals to join us at a defining moment, as Symbiotic helps shape the next generation of onchain finance.

## What You'll Do

- Lead the product design function collaborating closely with Leadership, Engineering, Product and Marketing teams
- Design the full user journey for Symbiotic's product stack making onchain complexity legible and optimising for clean user flows.
- Surface risk, exposure, and returns so users understand what they're committing to and what happens when conditions change.
- Run user research. You'll interview users, watch how they actually behave, and turn what you find into concrete feature scopes engineering can build from.
- Partner closely with Engineering to define problems, weigh tradeoffs, and design within real protocol constraints rather than around them.

## Who You Are

- Deep on-chain fluency: wallets, approvals, signing, gas, transaction lifecycle, chain latency — and a working understanding of how each one constrains what's designable.
- You've shipped a DeFi product to real users, and you can point to it
- A portfolio showing end-to-end product work — systems-level thinking alongside obsessive detail.
- Track record of operating autonomously in fast-moving, ambiguous environments with limited oversight.
- Comfortable without scaffolding: no design team, no design system to inherit, no one queuing your work.
- You run your own research rather than waiting for it to be handed to you.
- Excellent cross-functional communication — you can partner closely with Engineering and hold a position under scrutiny.
- Deep fluency in Figma and modern prototyping workflows.

## About Symbiotic

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Symbiotic builds modular, permissionless infrastructure for collateral markets, making digital assets enforceable as collateral for onchain financial obligations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; $34.8M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Cayman Islands (with offices in the United States and Dubai, UAE)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Misha Putiatin and Algys Ievlev

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Blockchain infrastructure / Onchain finance / Collateral markets
- **Target customers**: B2B – protocols, financial applications, and capital providers seeking programmable, portable, and efficient collateral
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Make digital assets enforceable collateral so onchain financial products can offer guarantees that hold when it matters most.” [symbiotic.fi](https://symbiotic.fi)

## Products & Services
- **Collateral Markets**: Shared collateral pool for underwritten credit – borrowers access efficient working capital, defaults trigger automated enforcement. [symbiotic.fi](https://symbiotic.fi)
- **Insurance**: Underwriting backed by shared collateral; claims pay out at protocol speed. [symbiotic.fi](https://symbiotic.fi)
- **Liquid Lane**: Atomic, T+0 liquidity for RWAs, private credit, tokenized funds, and structured products via an RFQ‑based settlement layer. [symbiotic.fi](https://symbiotic.fi)
- **Vaults**: Configurable vaults let curators design which risks to back, how capital earns, and bring that strategy to market on shared infrastructure. [symbiotic.fi](https://symbiotic.fi)
- **Core V2 (Symbiotic Core)**: Smart‑contract infrastructure that enforces the terms of every financial obligation (purpose, duration, loss conditions) automatically. [symbiotic.fi](https://symbiotic.fi)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $34.8M – Seed round $5.8M (led by Paradigm, CyberFund) and Series A $29M (led by Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures) [ky.linkedin.com](https://ky.linkedin.com/company/symbiotic-fi)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Paradigm, CyberFund, Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures. Partners include Midas (first issuer on Liquid Lane) and RedStone (oracle integration). [symbiotic.fi](https://symbiotic.fi) [ky.linkedin.com](https://ky.linkedin.com/company/symbiotic-fi)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 42.9% YoY to 16 employees; monthly growth +5.3% [ky.linkedin.com](https://ky.linkedin.com/company/symbiotic-fi)
  - Launched Liquid Lane (April 2026) and Core V2 (June 2026) [symbiotic.fi](https://symbiotic.fi)
  - Active hiring: Head of Capital Formation (4 open roles listed) [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/symbiotic)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Modular & permissionless**: Any protocol can plug into Symbiotic’s shared collateral infrastructure without gatekeepers.
- **Smart‑contract enforcement**: Terms (purpose, duration, loss conditions) are set upfront and executed automatically – code replaces trust.
- **Capital efficiency**: One deposit can earn premiums across multiple collateral markets while generating additional yield, lowering effective cost for borrowers.
- **Composable framework**: Institutional curators can design custom vaults and strategies on the same shared layer.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand collateral markets into new asset classes (RWAs, tokenized funds) and regions.
- Drive adoption of Liquid Lane as the standard for instant T+0 liquidity for tokenized assets.
- Build the partner ecosystem with issuers, oracles, and financial applications.
- Continue open‑source development (33 public repos on GitHub) to attract developer mindshare. [github.com](https://github.com/symbioticfi)

## Why Work Here
- **Tiny, high‑impact team** – only 16 people, so every hire has outsized influence on the product and direction. [ky.linkedin.com](https://ky.linkedin.com/company/symbiotic-fi)
- **Global & remote‑friendly** – employees across 11 countries (UAE, Canada, Austria, US, Kazakhstan, etc.) with offices in Cayman Islands and Dubai. [ky.linkedin.com](https://ky.linkedin.com/company/symbiotic-fi)
- **Cutting‑edge tech** – work on Solidity, Go, and infrastructure that powers the next generation of onchain finance (collateral markets, instant liquidity, programmable obligations).
- **Strong investor backing** from top crypto VCs (Paradigm, Pantera, Coinbase Ventures) provides stability and a long‑term horizon. [ky.linkedin.com](https://ky.linkedin.com/company/symbiotic-fi)

## Sources
1. [symbiotic.fi](https://symbiotic.fi/)
2. [symbiotic.fi/about](https://symbiotic.fi/about/)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/symbiotic)
4. [ky.linkedin.com](https://ky.linkedin.com/company/symbiotic-fi)
5. [github.com](https://github.com/symbioticfi)

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