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Staff Product Designer - Breakout

Kraken Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)

Remote Full-time Staff

The Staff Product Designer will lead the evolution and modernization of Breakout’s end-to-end product experience, defining scalable UX patterns for trading, accounts, KYC, and performance tracking. This role involves driving product strategy alongside Product and Engineering, establishing design systems, and raising the craft bar through hands-on execution and mentorship.

Responsibilities

  • Define scalable UX patterns for trading, accounts, KYC, and performance tracking
  • Lead the redesign and modernization of Breakout's core web and mobile experiences
  • Simplify complex financial and trading concepts into clear, fast, and legible interfaces
  • Drive product strategy alongside Product and Engineering, shaping what we build - not just how it looks
  • Establish design systems, standards, and best practices that scale across teams
  • Partner closely with Marketing to ensure seamless handoff and cohesive user journeys
  • Prototype and test quickly, balancing discovery with delivery
  • Raise the craft bar through hands-on execution and mentorship

Requirements

  • 7+ years of product design experience, including time operating at a senior or staff level
  • Proven experience designing complex, data-heavy, or technical products
  • Strong product thinking, able to balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints
  • Experience leading large-scale redesigns or modernization initiatives end-to-end
  • Deep understanding of UX systems, interaction design, and information architecture

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation packages
  • Company equity
  • 401(k) matching
  • Gender-neutral parental leave
  • Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Ongoing professional development
  • Family planning assistance
  • Flexible paid time off

Key Skills

Product design UX design Interaction design Information architecture Design systems Prototyping Wireframing User research Usability testing A/B testing Cross-functional collaboration Leadership skills Mentoring skills Communication skills Strong product thinking Technical skills, such as understanding of trading systems and technologies Experience with design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD Experience with front-end development frameworks and languages, such as React, Angular, JavaScript

About Kraken

Kraken is one of the world’s longest-standing and most secure crypto platforms. Our mission is to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. Globally, Kraken clients trade more than 200 digital assets and 6 different national currencies, including GBP, EUR, USD, CAD, CHF, and AUD. Kraken was founded in 2011 and was one of the first platforms to offer spot trading with margin, parachain auctions, staking, regulated derivatives and index services. Trusted by over 10 million individuals, traders and institutions around the world, Kraken offers professional 24/7/365 client support along with one of the fastest, most performant trading platforms available. Kraken has set the industry standard for transparency and client trust, and was the first crypto platform to conduct Proof of Reserves audits. In 2024, Kraken ranked 12th in Newsweek's Global Top 100 list of Most Loved Workplaces, recognizing how the platform offers one of

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