# Benjamin Greve — Staff Product Designer

> Product designer based in Durham, North Carolina, with 10+ years designing consumer
> products at scale. Currently Staff Designer at Phantom; previously Pinterest, Coinbase,
> Instacart, and Hugo (acquired by Calendly). Works at the intersection of product,
> growth, and AI.

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## Quick facts

- **Name:** Benjamin Greve (goes by Ben Greve)
- **Title:** Staff Product Designer
- **Equivalent levels:** Lead Product Designer, Principal Product Designer, Design Manager, Design Lead
- **Location:** Durham, North Carolina, USA (US Eastern time)
- **Work setup:** Remote, hybrid, or local in-person. Not relocating.
- **Experience:** 10+ years
- **Email:** bengreve@gmail.com
- **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/in/bmgreve/
- **Website:** https://grevedesign.com

## Summary

Product designer with experience building consumer apps at scale. Combines user insights
and systems thinking with data-informed problem solving and thoughtful craft to deliver
high-performing work that lands with impact. People focused and AI forward.

## Availability

- **Status:** Open to select opportunities
- **Company stage:** Series B and later — roughly 50 people and up, through large public companies
- **Domain:** Consumer products preferred; flexible on industry
- **Role types:** Staff-level and above IC, or manager / design leadership
- **Location terms:** Open to fully remote, hybrid, and in-person work in the Durham / Raleigh / Chapel Hill area. Not open to relocation.

## Experience

### Phantom — Staff Designer

**2024 – Present** · Crypto wallet and trading app

Designed the swapper, the signup flow, trading competitions, and more. Worked closely with
product and brand teams across growth and trading surfaces.

- +4% lift to trading volume
- +17% increase in new user funding
- +39% increase in new perp traders

### Pinterest — Staff Growth Designer

**2023 – 2024** · Visual discovery platform

Led design for the Activation Growth team, covering onboarding and New User Experience.
Responsible for roadmap planning, cross-team alignment, workshops, and design deliverables.

- +256k weekly reactivated users

### Independent

**2022 – 2023**

Contract design work, including Autograph.

### Coinbase — Senior Product Designer

**2020 – 2022** · Consumer crypto exchange

Designer for Coinbase's main consumer app. Led design on multiple 0→1 projects (Borrow,
Coinbase Earn) alongside numerous new features and growth initiatives.

- Launched Borrow, a 0→1 collateralized lending product
- +483% Earn adoption
- ~$80M annualized Earn revenue (2021 internal estimate)

### Instacart — Senior Product Designer

**2018 – 2020** · Grocery delivery marketplace

Designer for Instacart's core consumer app, with work ranging from new feature and product
development to design systems and long-term growth initiatives.

- Launched Quickshop, a 0→1 shopping flow
- Launched a 0→1 address picker for delivery and pickup
- +17.7k weekly activated new users

### Hugo — Founding Product Designer

**2016 – 2018** · Meeting notes software; acquired by Calendly

Responsible for all product, marketing, and brand design deliverables. Led design and
strategy for Hugo's core meeting notes product and onboarded the first 10 business users.

## Selected outcomes

- +4% trading volume (Phantom)
- +17% new user funding (Phantom)
- +39% new perp traders (Phantom)
- +256k weekly reactivated users (Pinterest)
- +483% Earn adoption (Coinbase)
- ~$80M annualized Earn revenue, 2021 internal estimate (Coinbase)
- +17.7k weekly activated new users (Instacart)
- Four 0→1 product launches: Borrow and Earn (Coinbase), Quickshop and address picker (Instacart)

## Skills

**Product and design practice**
Product design · UI / user interface design · UX / user experience design · Growth design ·
0→1 product development · Onboarding and activation · Design systems · Prototyping ·
User research · Experimentation and A/B testing · Data analysis · Design sprints

**Leadership and collaboration**
Team leadership · Coaching and mentorship · Design strategy · Roadmap planning ·
Cross-functional and cross-team alignment · Workshop facilitation

**Craft and tools**
Figma · Prototyping · Front-end implementation (HTML, CSS, vanilla JavaScript)

**Technical and AI**
AI-assisted design workflows · Claude Code · Building working prototypes and production
front-end without a design-to-engineering handoff

## Education

### Columbia University

**2012** · Post-B.A., Cognitive Psychology

### New York University

**2007** · B.A., Individualized Studies (Philosophy, Photography)

## Links

- Website: https://grevedesign.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bmgreve/
- Email: bengreve@gmail.com
- Resume (PDF): https://grevedesign.com/assets/greve_resume.pdf
- Portfolio (PDF): https://grevedesign.com/assets/greve_portfolio.pdf
- This file in Markdown: https://grevedesign.com/resume.md

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