Mesh is hiring a Head of Design in Product — San Francisco. The overview below is synthesized from the employer posting on job-boards.greenhouse.io: factual requirements and scope are preserved, but prose is rewritten with editorial context. Verify details and apply via the employer link.
About Mesh
Company context from the listing:
At Mesh, our mission is to enable consumers to pay and be paid with any asset. Today, trillions of dollars in tokenized assets exist but remain largely unusable for everyday commerce.
Overview
Company context from the listing:
Mesh is seeking an exceptional Head of Design.
A great crypto payments product is deceptively simple: pick an asset, pay, done. But we serve everyone from prediction markets to crypto exchanges to neobanks, and the user's mental model shifts with the merchant ...
To succeed in this role, the thinking comes first. Before any pixels, someone has to decide what the user believes is happening ...
What You'll Do
Day-to-day scope for the Head of Design as described in the posting:
- Own the end-to-end Mesh experience. The consumer app, and every merchant surface ... from first impression to failure states, error recovery, and support handoffs. If a person sees it, it's yours.
- Own design's hardest problems, hands-on. Which mental model each merchant type gets, what we standardize versus customize, when a flow ships versus needs another pass ... and the flows where those decisions live: deposits, swaps, bridging, fiat on-ramps, failure recovery. You are the tiebreaker on experience questions, and roughly half your time is in the work itself.
- Own the team. Manage, coach, and grow the designers on the team today, and hire as we scale. You set the bar for design talent at Mesh ... and you build the team that can hold it.
- Reinvent design for the AI era. AI is changing what a designer produces, how fast, and what's worth doing by hand. Decide how design works at Mesh ... the tools, the workflows, the ratio of prototypes to specs ... and evolve the function ahead of the curve, not behind it.
- Represent design at the exec table. Bring evidence-backed positions to roadmap and customer decisions with the CEO, CTO, and SVP Product. Design is in the room where direction gets set ... you are that presence.
Who You Are
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- Experience: 8+ years in product design, including 3+ years leading designers while staying hands-on. You have shipped consumer products at scale and can show the work.
- High Stakes: A track record of designing for complex systems where users really care when it doesn't work ... money movement, health, infrastructure, etc. Your portfolio holds up under failure, not just on the happy path.
- First-Principles Thinking: You originate the frame, you don't just execute it. You can point to products where the conceptual model was yours ... and explain the alternatives you rejected and why.
- Executive Influence: You have changed the direction of a roadmap with a design argument, with executives and engineering leaders in the room.
- AI Leverage: You use AI aggressively in your own practice and are rethinking what design work is still worth doing by hand.
- Domain: Payments or fintech experience is a plus, not a requirement.
The annual base salary range for this role is $229,000 - $300,000, plus equity, in San Francisco or New York. We have a strong preference for candidates based in San Francisco.
Why You’ll Love It Here
At Mesh, you're not stepping into a typical role—you're joining a rocket ship in mid-liftoff. You'll tackle complex, meaningful problems that actually move an industry forward, working alongside a sharp, motivated team that moves quickly, collaborates deeply, and expects everyone to operate with ownership.
In-Office Expectations
Employees based in our San Francisco, New York, and Bangalore hubs are expected to work from the office at least 40% of the time (approximately two days per week). This expectation may vary slightly depending on role, team, and business needs.
How We Care For Our Team
We believe great work happens when people feel valued and supported. That starts with competitive salary and equity that grows as you and the company grow, plus comprehensive health coverage for you and your family.
We're invested in your growth with a dedicated budget for courses, conferences, and certifications. Work from wherever you're most productive with our remote-friendly approach, and count on having the top-tier tools and equipment you need to do exceptional work.
Mesh Pay is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, genetic information, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, lawful alien status, national origin, age, marital status, and non-job related physical or mental disability, or protected veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.