About the company
Tempo is a layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoins and real-world payments, born from Stripe’s experience in global payments and Paradigm’s expertise in crypto tech. Tempo’s payment-first design provides a scalable, low-cost predictable backbone that meets the needs of high-volume payment use cases. Our goal is to move money reliably, cheaply, and at scale. Our north star is simplicity for users: fintechs, traditional banks, merchants, platforms, and anyone else looking to move their payments into the 21st century. We're building Tempo with design partners who are global leaders in AI, e-commerce, and financial services: Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Mercury, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, Standard Chartered, Visa, and more. We’re a team of crypto-optimists, building the infrastructure needed to bring real, substantial economic flows onchain. Our team primarily works in-person out of our San Francisco and NYC offices. We like to move fast and swing for the fences — join us!
Job Summary
Responsibilities
📍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.
Qualifications
📍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.
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