Jose Arce
Product lead, Miami

Jose Arce

I design, build and ship financial products, from research to launch.

Jose Arce is a product lead in Miami who designs, builds and ships financial products, from research to launch. He co-founded Olie, three apps for holding and moving money: Olie Vault to protect what you built, Olie Orbit to pay your friends and Olie Business to pay the world. He led its product, design, partnerships and launches across Latin America.

Before Olie, he spent four years at OKX and Okcoin. He led payments and created the first OKX Simple mode, which a year later became the default for every OKX user worldwide. He then led token recommendation, Rewards for OKX Pay, the Earn redesign, Lira Boost for Turkey and Latin America research, living in Brazil for months.

His first company, Mone, launched B2B instant payments for merchants across Latin America before Pix existed: QR codes, online and in person. He designed every screen of it himself, and Mone was acquired. Earlier, he redesigned the platforms every medical student in the United States passes through at the AAMC.

Nothing grows until it is safe. That is the order we build in.
Jose Arce, on how Olie is built
  • OlieFounder2025 to now
  • OKX2022 to 2025
  • Okcoin2022
  • MoneFounder, acquired2018 to 2022
  • AAMC2017 to 2018
Work and life
On the bike1 of 4

Writing

On wealth, money and the products that hold it.

Media

Launches, films and press from OKX, Olie and Mone.

See the work
OlieOlieFilmNov 2026

Olie Vault: protect what you built

Track record

Two companies founded, one acquired, four years at OKX.

Olie
2025 to today
Co-founder, Product Lead

A private home for the next generation of wealth. Three apps behind one front door: Olie Vault to protect what you built, Olie Orbit to pay your friends and Olie Business to pay the world.

OKX
2022 to 2025
Global Product DesignerBest Crypto Exchange 2024, TradingView

Four years designing how people around the world buy, earn and pay with digital dollars at one of the largest exchanges in the world.

Buy.

OKX Lite, the first app made for everyday buyers, and peer to peer rebuilt from scratch.

Earn.

Led the Earn team and the full redesign. Created Lira Boost for Turkey.

Pay.

Rewards for OKX Pay, cashback on every payment.

Discover.

A recommendation engine that runs across the whole app.

Okcoin
2022
Senior Product Designer, Payments

Payments for a regulated exchange, designed around security and compliance.

Mone
2018 to 2022
Co-founder, Product LeadAcquired

Payments for merchants across Latin America: QR codes, payment links and in person. The only designer of the web, iOS and Android apps, the brand and every piece of marketing. Acquired.

AAMC
2017 to 2018
Product

Redesigned the platforms every medical student in the United States passes through: VSLO, MSAR and ERAS, plus the admin tools behind them.

Contact

For teams building financial products.

Building something in payments, stablecoins or AI for money? I would like to hear about it.