Director, Product Design – Growth
Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $134,200 - $298,900 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Own design execution for your Growth PDE group, ensuring work ships on time, at high quality, and against clearly defined outcomes
- Lead hiring, onboarding, coaching, and performance management for designers within your group
- Run design critiques that materially improve UX clarity, interaction design, hierarchy, composition, and consistency
- Partner closely with product managers to define problem statements, success metrics, and experiment plans
- Ensure teams conduct regular user testing, prototyping, and iteration, especially for high-friction or compliance-heavy experiences
- Use quantitative data (funnels, experiments, engagement metrics) and qualitative insight (research, usability testing, feedback) to guide decisions
- Standardize design patterns within your group to reduce rework and increase speed while maintaining quality
- Improve collaboration between designers, engineers, and product managers by clarifying ownership, handoffs, and expectations
- Introduce and evolve tools and workflows — including AI-assisted design and research — that increase team velocity and learning
- Champion accessibility, inclusion, and localization across the experiences owned by your group
- Maintain a consistently high bar for trust, clarity, and usability in regulated, high-impact user journeys
Requirements
- 8-10+ years of product design experience working on complex digital products
- 4+ years of experience leading product designers
- Hands-on experience designing onboarding, activation, rewards, referral, or retention flows
- Strong understanding of UX, interaction design, visual hierarchy, typography, and composition
- Experience using product metrics, funnels, experimentation, and usability testing to inform decisions
- Comfort reviewing in-progress work and giving direct, constructive feedback
- Proven ability to build and run effective design processes, critique systems, and quality standards
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills in fast-moving environments
- Clear, confident communication with designers, product managers, and engineers
Benefits
- Wellness allowance
- Equity program
- Bonus program
- Medical, dental, and vision
- Paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
product designUX designinteraction designvisual hierarchytypographyusability testingprototypingdesign patternsquantitative data analysisqualitative research
Soft skills
leadershipcoachingperformance managementcollaborationcommunicationorganizational skillsprioritizationconstructive feedbackproblem-solvingtrust building