Staff Product Designer - Consumer

Kraken is a mission-focused company that aims to accelerate the global adoption of crypto. They are seeking a Staff Product Designer to lead the design direction of their flagship Kraken app, ensuring high-quality user experiences and elevating the brand's design standards.

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
• Use customer insights, data, and experimentation to inform decisions and continuously improve product outcomes
• Lead design critiques and contribute to a strong culture of feedback, rigor, and continuous improvement

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
• Ability to mentor and elevate other designers through feedback, collaboration, and example
• Data-informed mindset, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, able to clearly articulate and defend design decisions to diverse stakeholders
• Deep understanding of human-centered design principles and research methods, and the ability to apply them in complex environments
• Experience designing trading or financial products is a plus