[Hiring] Lead Design Builder @Alt Platform Inc

Role Description

Alt is unlocking the value of alternative assets, starting with the $5 B trading-card market. We let collectors buy, sell, vault, and finance their cards in one place and we are backed by leaders at Stripe, Coinbase, Seven Seven Six, and pro athletes like Tom Brady and Giannis Antetokounmpo. Our next frontier is real-time pricing at scale—the Alt Value that powers every trade, loan, and product on the platform.

You own the marketplace surfaces where that decision happens — listing and submission, the offer moment, bidding and auction close, payout, the places where Alt asserts a price and asks someone to act on it. Design at Alt isn't a service function that receives requirements. It's the discipline that writes them.

The bar you're held to:

• Every surface you own ships with a written problem frame, a metric instrumented before launch, a readout you ran yourself.
• Craft good enough that a user screenshots it and sends it to someone.

One without the other doesn't count here. A beautiful screen that didn't move anything is a miss. A number that moved on a surface nobody wants to look at is a different kind of miss.

What You'll Own:

• The problem: You write the framing for your surfaces: who's hurting, the evidence, the number that says it's real, the metric that says it worked.
• The craft: How completely the solution solves the problem, all the way to delight.
• The solution space: Multiple real directions, converged against your surface's written bar.
• The experience decisions: When a thing appears, what it feels like in the user's actual state, what tone it takes, what gets removed to make room.
• The words: Copy is design here. You write it.
• Trust, specifically: How much confidence we assert, when we show uncertainty.
• The crafted base: The quality foundation your team iterates on, and its survival through implementation.
• Your metrics: Instrumented before launch. You run your own readouts and kill your own misses.
• The research: Customer conversations every week, CX tickets and session replays mined as a habit.
• The prototype: You build working prototypes in code, not click-throughs.

How You'll Use AI Here:

• Get to a clickable prototype of a new flow in a day.
• Write a Claude skill that holds your surface's written bar.
• Mine CX tickets and session replays at volume.
• Turn a customer call into a synthesis the team can act on the same afternoon.
• Generate and kill twenty directions before you commit to one.
• Put a prototype in front of actual high-value sellers and come to roadmap planning with behavioral data.
• Have a view on the other side of it: where AI output is actively wrong for this work.

Qualifications

• Relentless curiosity about users.
• You've made ambiguity tractable, more than once.
• Articulation as part of your craft.
• Influence without authority.
• Founding, first, or early designer experience.
• You've shipped things you conceived.
• A portfolio organized around problems and outcomes, not screens.
• You prototype in code, or in code-adjacent tools.
• AI is already how you work.

Bonus

• Marketplace or two-sided experience.
• High-consideration or financial products where trust was the conversion problem.
• Consumer products with a passionate community.
• You collect, or you have a view on where this market is going.

How We'll Interview You

• Recruiter screen— 30 minutes.
• Hiring manager with Vijay, Head of Design — 60 minutes, Google Meet.
• Leore, our founder and CEO — 45 minutes.
• Reference check(s) — 15 minutes.

Benefits

• We cover 85% of your medical, dental, and vision, and up to 50% for dependents. HSA/FSA available.
• Flexible PTO that people actually take.
• Parental leave at full salary.
• $200/month wellness + $100/month home office stipend.
• Free DoorDash membership, because dinner shouldn't be a decision.
• Remote-first (for most positions), with WeWork access when you want a room with other humans.
• 401(k).
• Alt Equity to all full-time employees.