Institutional Product Lead – Cycles Prime

Cycles Protocol

Institutional Product Lead shaping product and UX for Cycles' fintech solutions. Designing interfaces for financial users with strong experience in fintech, trading, and crypto market infrastructure.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $130,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead product and design across institutional products, from discovery and user research through to shipped interfaces on web and (where relevant) mobile.
Turn dense clearing, settlement, and treasury workflows into flows users can run with confidence.
Define and own the product's design language, UX patterns, and interaction principles so institutional buyers trust what they see.
Partner tight with engineering to prototype, test, and ship fast without dropping the quality bar.
Run user research and usability testing yourself. Bring what you learn back into the product.
Drive product strategy and roadmap. Find the next surfaces, prioritize the work, and decide what we ship.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years shipping institutional-grade products end-to-end, in fintech, payments, trading, clearing, or crypto market infrastructure.
Track record of shipping products from 0→1 and iterating based on real customer feedback.
You understand institutional users want control and transparency, not hand-holding. You can make sophisticated financial tools feel obvious without flattening the complexity.
Strong product judgment plus real UX and information architecture chops for complex financial products.
Fluent in Figma and the modern design toolkit. Solid grip on responsive design for web and mobile.
You work well with engineers in fast-moving remote environments.
Portfolio that shows systems thinking and clear UX reasoning, not just polished screens.
Based in New York. The role is remote on paper but our clients and core team work happens in person. You should be in the city most weeks.

Benefits

Comp & perks

20 days (4 weeks) of paid vacation annually, plus 3 Spiritual Days
Company closure from December 25th to January 1
Annual Lifestyle benefits (reimbursements for gym memberships, fitness equipment, etc)
A remote first, flexible work environment
A home office stipend to set you up for success
Annual company retreats
Paid parental leave

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Hard Skills & Tools

product designuser researchusability testingUX patternsinteraction principlesproduct strategyinformation architectureresponsive designshipping productssystems thinking

Soft Skills

product judgmentcollaborationcommunicationadaptabilityproblem-solving