Senior Product Designer

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Product Designer to join the Payments and Blockchain team in defining the payment and funding experiences across Kraken products. We are a horizontal team that works across all Kraken products, focusing on critical challenges like payment flows, funding user experience, transaction workflows, and payment systems integration. We balance the desire to drive significant business impact through optimised workflow conversions with the obsession to deliver secure, compliant, and user-friendly payment experiences backed by deep user insights.
The opportunity

Translate user needs and business requirements into sensible user experiences, working closely with product managers, researchers, engineers, and other designers
Balance business objectives, customer needs and insights, and technical considerations to shape solutions that are holistically thought out
Develop deep understanding of design systems and patterns to ensure cohesion across products and use cases, while continuing to improve our patterns and usage guidelines
Define product information architecture and create standards that push for sensibility and scalability at the structural level and UI level
Take concepts from research, to exploration, to prototypes, to production
Actively participate in design reviews both seeking and giving meaningful and supportive feedback

Skills you should HODL

Minimum 5+ years of experience delivering high-quality product design work across mobile and desktop platforms. Past experience in core experiences, growth, or horizontal teams is preferred.
Systems thinker with experience designing and architecting complex product experiences holistically beyond individual features
Demonstration of excellent visual and interaction design skills
Understanding of quantitative and qualitative user insights
Ability to manage stakeholder relationships and effectively communicate across and upward
Self-driven and organized, able to navigate complex problems and ambiguities
A desire to work on a growing and evolving design team, helping shape its culture and operations
An interest in Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and financial products

Nice to haves

A user of our products
Experience working on design systems
Experience designing financial products, trading platforms, or numerically-oriented interfaces

This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline.
Please note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution.
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Kraken is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate all Krakenites for their diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions and unique perspectives. We hire strictly based on merit, meaning we seek out the candidates with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills considered the most suitable for the job. We encourage you to apply for roles where you don’t fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you’re passionate or knowledgable about crypto!
As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.