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Staff Product Designer - Consumer

Kraken Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)

Remote Full-time Senior

You will lead the design direction for complex, high-priority areas within the flagship Kraken app to shape the future of the platform. This involves partnering with product and engineering teams to define strategy, mentor designers, and ensure design excellence across the product ecosystem.

Responsibilities

  • Set and elevate the design vision across key product areas, defining what great looks like and driving it through execution
  • Lead the design of complex, ambiguous problem spaces, turning them into clear, elegant, and scalable user experiences
  • Raise the bar for the industry by creating visually rich, forward-thinking designs that elevate Kraken’s brand and set new benchmarks for excellence
  • Shape and evolve Kraken’s design system and visual language, ensuring consistency and scalability across the product
  • Partner deeply with product, engineering, and leadership to influence product strategy and roadmap decisions, not just execution
  • Drive alignment across teams, bringing clarity and direction to cross-functional initiatives
  • Mentor and support other designers, contributing to their growth and raising the overall quality of the design team
  • Champion a high standard of craft and user experience, influencing stakeholders to uphold excellence across the organization

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in product design, with a portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft and impact, particularly in mobile app experiences
  • Proven ability to lead design direction for large, complex product areas and deliver high-quality outcomes
  • Strong UX and visual design skills, with a track record of solving ambiguous problems with clarity and elegance
  • Advanced prototyping skills, with the ability to communicate complex interactions and ideas effectively
  • Experience influencing product strategy and cross-functional decision-making at a team or organizational level
  • Strong systems thinking, with experience contributing to or evolving design systems at scale

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on a mission-focused project
  • Collaborative and dynamic work environment
  • Professional development and growth opportunities
  • Diverse and inclusive team
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Competitive compensation and benefits package

Key Skills

Product design UX design Visual design Prototyping Design systems Design leadership Product strategy Cross-functional collaboration Communication Problem-solving Design thinking User research User experience Interaction design Information architecture Visual design principles Design tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD

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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