UI/UX Lead

✨ Zama is Hiring: Invent the Future of Confidential Interfaces! ✨

Most design roles ask you to improve something that already exists. This one asks you to invent something that doesn't.

Zama builds Fully Homomorphic Encryption for blockchain. Our products let smart contracts compute on encrypted data. Confidential tokens, encrypted DeFi, privacy-preserving applications. They're live today.

But here's the design problem no one has solved: how do you build intuitive interfaces for things users can't see? When a balance is encrypted and a transaction is shielded, standard DeFi design patterns break down. Someone needs to figure out what replaces them.

You'll report to the CPO and partner with product managers and frontend engineers across Zama's full product suite. Wallet interactions, DeFi workflows, token issuance, and whatever comes next.

🚀 What You Will Do:

• Invent UX patterns for confidential interactions.

  • How should a user feel confident about an encrypted balance they can't read?
  • How do you communicate transaction status when details are shielded?
  • These are open design problems, not variations on existing patterns.

• Build a design system that holds across multiple products.

  • Coherent identity, flexible enough for features that don't exist yet.

• Design end-to-end user flows for confidential token interactions.

  • Wallet management, DeFi operations, token issuance.
  • Make cryptographic operations feel natural without hiding what's actually happening.

• Own the experience through implementation, not just through handoff.

  • Work tightly with frontend engineers to ensure what ships matches what you designed.

• Turn product vision into high-fidelity designs and interactive prototypes.

  • Make sure design drives product decisions, not just illustrates them.

• Maintain an AI-native design workflow.

  • Keep the design-to-code pipeline efficient.
  • Stay current with how AI tooling is changing interface development.