Staff Product Designer at Polymarket

<h2><strong>About Polymarket</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Polymarket is the world’s largest prediction market platform. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized “house,” Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're growing fast – both in terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re hiring a <strong>Staff Product Designer</strong> at Polymarket. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role where you’ll help define the product’s direction and craft the core user experience from first principles.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re not a place where roadmaps are handed down or specs are set in stone. We’re looking for someone who thrives in ambiguity — someone who sees undefined spaces as creative opportunities and has the initiative to bring structure, insight, and beauty to complex problems.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You’ll collaborate closely with the Founder and leadership team, owning design end-to-end: from understanding our users and defining product narratives to shipping thoughtful, high-precision interfaces.</p><h2></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Lead with autonomy.</strong> You’ll define and drive design work from scratch — identifying what needs to be done while raising the quality bar, and collaborating closely with engineers and leadership to bring ideas to life.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Design for clarity and depth.</strong> Our product touches prediction markets, finance, and social networks. Your job is to make these powerful tools feel accessible, intuitive, and engaging.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Prototype quickly and test ideas.</strong> You’ll use tools like Figma, Cursor, and light code to explore concepts, validate assumptions, and refine interfaces based on real feedback.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Develop insights through research.</strong> You’ll talk to users, analyze behavior, and extract meaningful patterns that inform product direction.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Define and evolve our design system.</strong> You’ll create the standards and systems that keep our product cohesive as it grows.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Act as a force-multiplier.</strong> You’ll raise the bar — not just through your own work, but by modeling great thinking, p