Staff Product Designer - Breakout

Kraken

The opportunity

As a Staff Product Designer, you ll embed directly with a cross-functional pod of product managers, engineers, and designers focused on the Breakout experience. You ll collaborate closely with Kraken s Pro and Trading teams to ensure consistency across trading surfaces while modernising Breakout s core product.

This is a highly technical, fast-moving environment where design plays a critical role in turning complex trading systems into clear, intuitive, and high-performance user experiences

As a Staff Product Designer, you ll lead the evolution and modernisation of Breakout s end-to-end product experience.

You will:

• Define scalable UX patterns for trading, accounts, KYC, and performance tracking

• Lead the redesign and modernisation of Breakout s core web and mobile experiences

• Simplify complex financial and trading concepts into clear, fast, and legible interfaces

• Drive product strategy alongside Product and Engineering, shaping what we build - not just how it looks

• Establish design systems, standards, and best practices that scale across teams

• Partner closely with Marketing to ensure seamless handoff and cohesive user journeys

• Prototype and test quickly, balancing discovery with delivery

• Raise the craft bar through hands-on execution and mentorship|

Skills you should HODL

• 7+ years of product design experience, including time operating at a senior or staff level

• Proven experience designing complex, data-heavy, or technical products (fintech, trading, SaaS, or similar)

• Strong product thinking able to balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints

• Experience leading large-scale redesigns or modernisation initiatives end-to-end

• Deep understanding of UX systems, interaction design, and information architecture

• Ability to design fast, high-signal interfaces where speed and clarity matter

• Comfort working closely with engineers and understanding technical tradeoffs

• Experience creating and scaling design systems and reusable patterns

• Strong prototyping skills to validate ideas quickly

• Clear communicator who can influence stakeholders and articulate rationale

• A portfolio demonstrating ownership, craft, and measurable impact