Bitgo Head of Design at BitGo leads and mentors the design team while actively contributing to design work. This role owns the design system and partners closely with the Chief Product Officer on business strategy.
Responsibilities
Own and ship design surfaces at a high quality bar
Manage and mentor the design team
Invest in individual growth of designers
Provide candid, specific feedback about craft
Amplify design team's visibility and strategic impact
Represent design in company strategy
Qualification
Deep in UXTechnically literateDirect communicatorYou want the mandateHelpfulRegulated environmentsExperience with complex permissioning
Required
Experience leading design in financial services. Digital assets, or another domain of genuinely complex technical flows, strongly preferred.
You have built and owned a design system at scale, not just used one.
Hands-on in Figma and a role model for craft. You are shipping design work today, not describing work you shipped four years ago. You can sit in a critique and give feedback that is specific enough to act on.
Deep in UX. Strong product thinking, logical reasoning, and decisions grounded in data rather than taste alone.
You have managed designers and made them better. You care about how the team is doing, not only what it ships.
Technically literate. Comfortable with APIs, data models, and engineering trade-offs.
Direct communicator. You can hold a position with a Chief Product Officer, an engineering lead, or a client, and change your mind when the argument is better.
You want the mandate. Turning a technical, compliance-heavy platform into a design-led one is the appeal, not the obstacle.
Helpful, not required
Regulated environments: broker-dealer, trust company, bank, or qualified custodian.
Experience with complex permissioning, approval workflows, or multi-entity account structures.
Design leadership at a company that went through the same shift you would lead here.
