• 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.