Design Guy / Head of Design

The role

You own how Duel feels. Every screen, every asset, every piece of the Duelverse. Not a manager of designers — the person setting the bar and drawing to it.

There is no design org yet. You are building it: the system, the team, the standard.

Duel’s whole pitch is that it is not another dark-themed casino stamped out by the same outsourced agency as everyone else. That claim lives or dies with you.

What you’ll do

• Own visual and product design across casino, sportsbook, PvP games, and live
• Build and evolve the design system — consistency without sterility
• Direct brand: identity, campaign work, the Duelverse and its characters
• Hire and lead designers as the team scales
• Work directly with engineering. Your designs ship, or they weren’t finished.
• Set the bar publicly — critique, standards, and taste that spreads
• Use player behaviour to refine what works and kill what doesn’t

What you’ll need

• Senior design leadership experience, or the portfolio of someone who should have it
• Range: product UI, brand, motion, illustration. This role is not one lane.
• A body of work that is distinctive on sight — not template work, not agency-stamped iGaming
• Expert in Figma; comfortable in motion and 3D tools or willing to get there fast
• You have built a design function and a design system from nothing before
• Strong opinions, defended well, abandoned quickly when wrong
• Crypto-native. You should already find the industry’s design embarrassing.

Come design the casino that makes the rest look like they hired the same guy.