Senior Brand Designer – Art Director
Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Senior
About the role
- Collaborate with stakeholders and Brand Design teammates to concept, design, and art-direct brand assets that elevate our product stories.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of Kraken’s visual identity (and its sub-brands) and brand guidelines, ensuring consistency and cohesion across our product ecosystem and all brand communications.
- Create high-quality, distinctive design across digital, animation and graphic design; from big campaign ideas to meticulous execution.
- Take concepts from insights and research through exploration, concepting, and final delivery, owning your work end-to-end.
- Translate complex ideas (crypto, trading, investing, staking) into clear, compelling visual narratives that resonate with diverse audiences.
- Actively participate in design reviews; giving and receiving thoughtful, constructive feedback.
- Contribute to a strong, inclusive, and creatively ambitious design team culture.
- Partner closely with marketing, growth, product, and internal teams to deliver cohesive, cross-functional creative.
- Take full accountability for the details of your work - from typography and layout to production readiness.
- Explore emerging design tools, including AI, and trends to keep Kraken’s brand bold, future-facing, and differentiated.
Requirements
- Significant experience as a brand designer / art director (agency, in-house, or startup)
- A strong portfolio showcasing detail-oriented design work, clear visual systems, and strategic, provocative creative thinking
- Mastery of core graphic design fundamentals: typography, color, layout, hierarchy, and composition
- Demonstrated ability to craft and communicate a visual story: from high-level concept through to final design and presentation
- Mastery of Figma and Adobe design tools
- Comfortable working independently or under direction from creative leads, driving multiple projects at a time and iterating quickly
- Clear, proactive communicator, confident presenting work, explaining decisions, and aligning stakeholders
- Motivated by fast-paced, evolving creative challenges with a passion (or strong curiosity) for crypto, culture, and emerging technology
- Experience with motion design or collaborating closely with motion designers.
Benefits
- Fully remote work
- Diverse and inclusive culture
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
graphic designtypographycolor theorylayouthierarchycompositionmotion designvisual storytellingconcept developmentbrand identity
Soft skills
collaborationconstructive feedbackcommunicationaccountabilitycreativityindependenceproactivestrategic thinkingdetail-orientedadaptability