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Principal Product Designer

Smarkets 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

Full-time Senior

You will define and drive the product design direction from scratch, working closely with leadership, product, and engineering teams. Your role involves creating simple, elegant interfaces and conducting user research to inform product strategy and enhance the design system.

Responsibilities

  • You will define and drive the product design direction from scratch, working closely with leadership, product, and engineering teams. Your role involves creating simple, elegant interfaces and conducting user research to inform product strategy and enhance the design system.

Requirements

  • The role requires 6+ years of experience in consumer product design, with a strong portfolio demonstrating systemic thinking and attention to detail. Proficiency in Figma, interaction design, and a deep understanding of UX principles are essential for this position.

Benefits

  • Stock options
  • Pension scheme
  • Health insurance
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Chef-made breakfast and lunch
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • Learning and development budget
  • Paid leave

Key Skills

Product design direction Leadership collaboration User research Design system enhancement Figma Interaction design UX principles Systemic thinking Detail orientation Cross‑functional teamwork Stakeholder alignment Prototyping Wireframing Visual design Design strategy

About Smarkets

Smarkets operates one of the world's largest prediction market and sports betting exchanges — processing $billions in annual volume across 1M+ customers in regulated markets worldwide. Founded in 2008, we've spent 18 years building the infrastructure for how the world prices uncertain events. Our exchange consistently delivers the sharpest prices available, powered by proprietary market-making technology and deep liquidity provision. We're a technology company at our core. Our platform is built on Linux, Kafka, Postgres, and Kubernetes, with performance-critical systems in Rust and C++17, and product surfaces in Python and React. We build infrastructure that institutions trust while keeping it accessible to everyone. We've survived every cycle, every competitor, and every "revolution" in this industry. Our edge: market design beats marketing, and liquidity beats everything. Team of 100+ across London and Malta. Licensed and regulated across multiple jurisdictions. We're hiring eng

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