Designer
Tempo
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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SeniorLead
About the role
- Define and maintain Tempo’s visual identity and design system, covering everything from product UI to marketing surfaces, motion, and documentation.
- Lead the design of core product experiences—developer dashboards, reference apps, onboarding, analytics tools, and public documentation.
- Create clear, compelling visual storytelling to help explain Tempo’s architecture, stablecoin use cases, and value proposition to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Collaborate closely with the engineering team to prototype and implement UI, refine interaction patterns, and ship polished product surfaces.
- Work with Paradigm and Stripe’s design leadership to ensure alignment on brand tone, design quality, and creative direction.
- Scale a small internal design team—mentoring and hiring both brand and product designers as the team grows.
- Collaborate with external partners—motion designers, illustrators, developers—on launches, campaigns, or exploratory work.
- Contribute to the long-term vision of design at Tempo: how we work, what we prioritize, and how we build trust through design.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience across brand and product design, ideally in startups, infrastructure companies, or design-forward technical teams.
- Experience working on B2B or developer-facing products, with a strong understanding of how to make complex systems legible through design.
- A portfolio that demonstrates a high level of craft, clarity, and system-level thinking—across interfaces, identity systems, and narrative storytelling.
- Fluency in typography, layout, and composition—with the ability to move between static, interactive, and motion-based mediums.
- Strong communication skills—able to structure narratives visually and articulate design decisions to technical and non-technical collaborators.
- Experience building or contributing to componentized design systems in Figma or code, and collaborating closely with engineers.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, early-stage environment—able to take initiative, handle ambiguity, and operate both strategically and tactically.
- Interest in payments, crypto infrastructure, financial tooling, or the future of digital money is a plus—but not required.
Benefits
- Regular in-person work expected
- Flexibility within the day-to-day work
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
brand designproduct designUI designvisual storytellingtypographylayoutcompositioncomponentized design systemssystem-level thinkingmotion design
Soft skills
strong communication skillsmentoringcollaborationinitiativehandling ambiguitystrategic thinkingtactical thinking