# James Robinson > Staff Product Designer @ Coinbase Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jamesrobinson James is a multidisciplinary design leader building products, brands, companies, and teams from 0 to 1 and beyond. Today, he's designing the future of the internet and the financial system at Coinbase. Previously, he's led design at early- and growth-stage startups building ambitious, bleeding-edge tech like artificial intelligence and crypto infrastructure. Triple citizen (US, EU, and UK) and native of the internet. Currently based in the SF Bay Area but designing everywhere and still a true New Yorker at heart. ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer @ Coinbase Jan 2025 – Present Leading design for Coinbase infrastructure products, including Coinbase Developer Platform, global payments, agentic commerce, x402, and enterprise crypto-as-a-service. Designing the infrastructure to power a more open, free, and fair economy and internet. ### Fractional design leadership @ James Robinson Jan 2012 – Present Full-stack design, strategic consulting, and brand creative direction for startup teams ### Design Advisor @ The New Money Company (YC W24) Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 ### Core team @ Design Executive Council Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 Building the best community for design executive leaders, from Fortune 100s to fast-growing startups ### Design leadership @ Yupp Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Head of Design @ Syndicate Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 Syndicate started with a radical mission to create a more open, free, and fair economy by putting venture capital on chain, changing what gets built, by whom, and for whom. Since then, Syndicate has grown into a powerful developer platform that powers crypto projects for small startups and Fortune 100 companies. Syndicate is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, IDEO CoLab Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Table Management, Variant, Electric Capital, Delphi Ventures, CoinFund, and 300+ top founders and angels. → Led foundational design vision as the first employee, architecting multiple crypto investing products from ideation to launch and beyond, leading to over $40M in user deposits and thousands of communities created, all in the first few months after launch → Led a major pivot and redesign to a developer platform that now powers projects for companies like Nike → Directly hired and managed a design team of 6 and was closely involved in hiring 20+ more, including senior leadership, growing the company to 35 people → Led strategy, roadmap, culture, and early company ops like payroll, directly helping close >$28M in series-A funding led by top VCs like a16z, Electric, & Variant ### Lead Product Designer @ Proxy Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Proxy built a product at the intersection of physical spaces, digital identity, and crypto: a way for environments and devices to recognize and adapt to you, as if by magic. → Led a complete redesign of a fragmented, multi-app ecosystem, unifying everything into a single focused UX → Overhauled a gridlocked product design process, shipping product for the first time in years → Co-led a multi-million-dollar multi-agency rebrand, enabling a pivot and acquisition (by Ōura) shortly after ### Founding Designer @ Eight Sleep Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 I was Eight's founding designer and led interdisciplinary design across the company during critical series-C growth and COVID. Led an interdisciplinary design strategy, integrating digital, brand, print, packaging, growth, industrial, and systems design together. Worked cross-functionally with PMs, researchers, analysts, marketers, execs, and more to make design a shared language and competitive advantage. ### Co-founder & CEO @ Fiber Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 Founded and led design for a B2B SaaS HR startup, building a suite of research-backed AI-powered tools to identify and disrupt decisionmaking bias in real time. ### User Experience Design, Identity UX @ Google Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, California Designed experimental, low-interface interactions for Smart Lock, a better way to handle authentication and identity that relies on presence, not passwords. Enhanced user trust and confidence for over a billion MAUs across Google products through improved cross-platform design consistency at sign in/up. ### Product and design leadership @ Stealth Startup Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | New York, NY Led a small team in building an ecommerce app offering photo stories that let users instantly buy the fashion & lifestyle items featured. Grew app to more than 300k MAUs globally. ### User Experience Design, Platform @ Quirky Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | New York, NY Redesigned Quirky’s web & mobile platform to improve community invention submissions, and accelerated growth through email marketing. Designed initial strategy, creative direction, and interactions for GE's new smart oven and Wink, Quirky's new smart home/IoT platform. ### Product Design @ betaworks Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | New York, NY Designed product UI, research, and strategy that impacted Bitly and Chartbeat, while they were being incubated in Betaworks. Worked independently on initial product concept, documentation, and research for a product enabling Chartbeat's web analytics to know when events on non-web channels occurred, such as a live TV show airing, so that we could correlate activity between web traffic and those other channels. We investigated ways we could determine the degree to which an increase in web traffic directly related to referral from those other channels. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Art Connecticut College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jamesrobinson50 - Portfolio: https://jamesrobinson.io --- Source: https://flows.cv/jamesrobinson JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jamesrobinson/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13