Building the Future of Crypto

Our Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.

What makes us different?

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade, Kraken’s focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world.

Before you apply, please read the Kraken Culture page to learn more about our internal culture, values, and mission. We also expect candidates to familiarize themselves with the Kraken app. Learn how to create a Kraken account here.

As a fully remote company, we have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages. Krakenites are industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers to the space. Kraken is committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support through our products like Kraken Pro, Kraken NFT, and Kraken Futures.

Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto!

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The team:

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
  
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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.

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