Ellipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York startup building performant DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure. Our long-term mission is to build a more efficient, transparent, and fair financial system.

Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana. Phoenix has processed over $4 billion in trading volume and is growing 20% month over month, adding to the more than $300 billion our products have facilitated to date. Behind Phoenix is a lean, high-caliber team with experience at top trading firms, blockchain companies, and tech companies.

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