Job Description
The Team:
Weโre looking for highly motivated product designers with a passion for crafting beautiful experiences to help shape the future of onchain design at Kraken. With an emphasis on design solutions oriented in self-custody and decentralized applications, this role will combine a keen eye for detail that spans across an ecosystem of interconnected applications and protocols with a comfort designing user flows that reach across product and crypto platforms to offer a seamless experience for our beloved customers.
The Opportunity:
- Create high quality onchain user experiences while closely collaborating with other designers, researchers, product managers, content writers, and engineers
- Communicate the impact of design for decentralized applications while balancing business objectives, customers needs, insights, and technical constraints to product data-informed outcomes
- Bring awareness of the latest wallets, marketplaces, defi applications, and other leading applications to inform and define and onchain product suite
- Actively participate in design reviews both seeking and giving meaningful feedback to inform and shape our product direction
- Work closely with product, research, and engineering teams to define concepts through exploration, to prototyping, testing, and production, tracking outcomes via analytics and customer feedback
Skills you should HODL:
- Experience designing with complex data for financial products
- Demonstrated ability to lead design efforts across mobile and desktop platforms
- Deep understanding of decentralized applications and use cases for self-custody wallets
- Working closely with engineers and product managers to bring your ideas to life
- Desire to work in a rapidly evolving domain of design and new product initiatives
- Comfortable with ambiguity and asking the right questions to form multiple design solutions to a problem or customer need
- Natural storytelling ability and proficiency explaining rationale behind design decisions
- Strong interest in crypto utility and use cases within decentralized applications
Nice to haves:
- Experience designing for mobile wallets and/or browser extensions
- Understanding layer 1/2 networks and interoperability between blockchains
- Familiarity with crypto on both centralized exchanges and self-custody
