Ellipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York-based startup building sustainable and efficient DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure. Our long-term goal is to build a better financial system.
Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana. Building on our experience developing efficient markets, Ellipsis Labs also operates SolFi, a proprietary automated market maker that provides efficient liquidity for key trading pairs. Our foundational product, Phoenix Legacy, is a limit order book on the Solana blockchain that established our expertise in operating high-performance markets. Combined, these products have facilitated over $285B in trading volume across Solana markets.
Ellipsis Labs is seeking a Senior Designer to define and elevate the visual language of our exchange and brand across high-density, real-time trading interfaces. You’ll partner with engineering and leadership to craft a cohesive, trustworthy look and feel - from component libraries to data visualization, motion, and launch assets. In this role, you will:
Own the visual system for Phoenix and future products: typography, color, spacing, iconography, design tokens, and component theming
Turn complex trading mechanics and data into clear, scannable visual hierarchies and data visualizations that perform under real-time constraints
Build and maintain a Figma library/design system, ensuring consistency and speed of implementation; provide developer-ready specs and assets
Drive visual polish on critical surfaces (order entry, positions, charts, risk states), including loading/empty/error states and micro-interactions/motion
Partner closely with engineers to ensure visual fidelity in production and pragmatic choices under technical constraints
Own the company and product brand expression across product surfaces and key moments
Incorporate feedback, user signals, and metrics to iterate quickly without sacrificing craft
Qualifications
Required
2+ years designing visual systems for complex digital products, ideally high-density or data-heavy (trading/finance, analytics, dev tools, etc.).
Portfolio demonstrating strong visual craft (type, color, layout), system thinking (tokens/components), and clear data presentation.
Fluency in Figma (components/variants, auto-layout) and handoff practices; attention to detail across states and edge cases.
Comfort collaborating with engineers; ability to balance visual quality with performance and feasibility.
High ownership and bias to ship; you sweat the details and move quickly.
Preferred
Familiarity with crypto/Web3 design patterns and user behaviors
Exposure to Solana or similar blockchain ecosystems