Principal Designer at Otherlife, MoonPay's creative studio, leading hands-on concepting and execution across brand, product, AI video, and GTM work. Individual contributor role reporting to Executive Creative Director Nick Ace, mentoring 1-2 designers through reviews. Requires 7+ years of design experience and proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, WebGL, GSAP, or Three.js.
Otherlife is for builders with something to prove.
This isn't a "work on cool crypto stuff" company. It's a high-standards, high-velocity, high-accountability company building the operating system for value movement. If the internet moves information, we move value: crypto, stablecoins, tokenized assets, and whatever comes next. Four offerings make that real: fund, tokenize, trade, and spend.
Otherlife is MoonPay's creative studio. We design how brands meet the next era of the internet, working with companies like Mastercard, Arsenal FC, Coinbase, OpenSea, and Shopify on the brand identities, digital experiences, and on-chain products that introduce real people to emerging tech. Our work sits at the intersection of culture, design, and technology, and the bar is clarity, craft, and work that holds up long after the launch.
AI is the default operating mode here. It's woven into every role, and we expect you to use it daily. It handles the manual work so you can deliver on what actually matters.
You'll thrive here if outcomes excite you more than process, if impact motivates you more than titles, and if you want hard problems, real ownership, and teammates who love winning, building, and doing it together.
The bar is high. The pace is real. We're making emerging tech feel intuitive, accessible, and worth using, for humans and agents. MoonPay made Forbes' America's Best Startup Employers 2026 (Top 25 in Finance), ranked #2 in Crypto Services on Fortune's inaugural Crypto 100, and made The Sunday Times Best Places to Work two years running.
About the Position
The Principal Designer is a senior individual contributor who takes on Otherlife’s highest-profile, highest-priority projects. Reporting to Executive Creative Director Nick Ace, you will lead concepting, design, and execution hands-on across brand, product, AI video, and GTM work, setting the standard for craft and quality through the work itself.
This is not a people-management role. You will mentor and support designers through design reviews, feedback, and guidance on 1-2 team members, but most of your time goes to doing the work.
Key Responsibilities
Required Skills & Experience
Nice to Have
Otherlife Perks
New York Salary Bandings: $358,000 - $367,500 USD
Research has shown that women are less likely than men to apply for this role if they do not have experience in 100% of these areas. Please know that this list is indicative, and that we would still love to hear from you even if you feel that you are only a 75% match. Skills can be learned, diversity cannot.
