Head of Design, Digital Assets

About Nu Nu serves more than 140 million customers, guided by a mission to fight complexity and empower people. The company has been leading an industry transformation through innovative products and human-centered services.   Proprietary technology and data at scale power Nu’s digital platform, built to promote financial access, advancement, and transparency. Its business model thrives on customer love and lower costs, feeding a flywheel of growth and profitability. Visit our Institutional Page Head of Design (Hands-On), Digital Assets We are building open money and open financial services — not "crypto." The Digital Assets team at Nubank is reimagining how a financial services platform can use blockchain technology to solve real problems for real people — without ever making customers think about the blockchain at all. We have deliberately renamed ourselves from Crypto to Digital Assets, and we have effectively banned the word "crypto" internally. We do not do crypto for crypto's sake. We do blockchain banking. The reference point is Apple Pay. It runs on cryptography, public and private keys, and secure tokenization inside a secure enclave. Apple never says any of that. It says "on device," and "it just works." That is the standard for everything we ship. The Role We are looking for a hands-on design leader to join the Digital Assets team in Palo Alto. You will be the lead design voice for a genuinely new category: making digital assets — Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and stablecoins — as simple, accessible, and trusted as a debit card swipe. This role sits at the intersection of consumer product design, financial innovation, and zero-to-one invention. Much of what you will design has never existed in consumer form before. You will not be asked to study what the incumbents did; the explicit instruction is to carve a new path. What You Will Design The buy, hold, and sell experience for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Digital Dollars, etc. — designed to feel intuitive, familiar, and clear from the first interaction. Earning, also known as staking: an experience that lets customers put eligible digital assets to work and earn rewards with clarity, control, and trust — without exposing the protocol mechanics underneath. Onchain transfers and payments: sending, receiving, and using digital assets in ways that feel as simple and dependable as moving money today, while the underlying blockchain complexity stays out of the customer’s way. The invisible infrastructure layer that powers core functionality across the entire company, including the US build. Both the customer experience and the platform that other teams will draw on for future launches. New ways for people to own, move, use, and grow value across financial products and borders — shaping a flexible foundation for what open money can become without being constrained by today’s conventions. What We Are Looking For Consumer instincts over crypto fluency. Deep domain experience in crypto is not the point here — and can even work against you. If your instinct is to explain custody models or gas fees to a customer, this is not the seat. Mobile expertise is a must-have. There is no desktop app in Brazil; effectively no web. Strong recent mobile work is non-negotiable, and a primarily B2B or enterprise background is a hard fit. Zero-to-one experience. You have designed products that did not exist before, where there were no references to copy, and you thrived in the ambiguity. A product marketing mindset. You care about the words, the positioning, and how it feels — not just the design elements. Our touchstone is "a thousand songs in your pocket," decided before the product was designed. The ability to hide complexity. You have made something complicated feel obvious and delightful. Products that resonate with us: Cash App, Apple, the Tesla app, Duolingo, Wise, Revolut. Fintech experience is a plus, never a requirement. We will teach you the