Staff Product Designer - AI Products

<h1><strong>Building the Future of Open Finance</strong><br /></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><h3><strong>The team</strong></h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em">Forget crypto. Fintech/crypto are now one of the same. Come join us to lead Product Design for the building of elite AI products, end-to-end. A personal finance agent that shapes how people spend, save invest and live.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em">You’ll have real ownership of the design work: the experiences you shape, and how they look, feel and behave. You’ll work directly with product, engineering and leadership, with no layers of process between you and the work.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em">This is a rare 0→1 opportunity. The choices you make will shape the products and the people who use them.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re a small, hardworking team that moves fast and ships with purpose. We’re straight-talking, no-nonsense, and deeply invested in the quality of what we build. We care about craft, we care about our customers, and we care about getting things right.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em">If you’re excited by hard problems, high standards, no egos and the chance to build something genuinely new, climb aboard.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><h3><strong>The opportunity</strong></h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own design end to end: discovery, concept, prototyping, delivery and launch. You are the designer, with real ownership of the outcome.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Take products from zero to one, turning an early idea or a rough problem space into something real that people use.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build new AI products for external B2C customers, and internal AI products that shape and redefine the way that Payward works.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Thrive in ambiguity. Define the problem, set the direction and make the call when nobody has handed you a brief.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design for non-deterministic experiences, where outputs vary and the system doesn’t behave the same way twice. Shape how people interact with, understand and trust intelligent systems.</p></li>&l