Lead Product Designer

Who we are

We simplify wealth creation. Founded in 2014 in Vienna, Austria by Eric Demuth, Paul Klanschek and Christian Trummer, we’re here to help people trust themselves enough to build their financial freedom — for now and the future. Our user-friendly, trade-everything platform empowers both first-time investors and seasoned experts to invest in the cryptocurrencies, crypto indices, stocks*, precious metals and commodities* they want — with any sized budget, 24/7. Our global team works across different cultures and time zones, bringing our products to more than 4 million customers, making us one of Europe’s safest and most secure platforms that powers modern investing.

Headquartered in Austria but operating across Europe, our products are built by fast-moving, talented, “roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-it-happen” kind of people. It’s these diverse perspectives and innovative minds operating as ONE TEAM that keep Bitpanda at the cutting edge of our industry. So if you’re someone who thinks big, moves fast and wants to make an impact right from day one, then get ready to join our industry-changing team. Let’s go!

Your mission

As a Lead Product Designer with a focus on visual design and design operations, you’ll play a pivotal role in improving the efficiency and quality of our design processes while ensuring governance over the UI design quality across teams and product lines. You’ll drive operational excellence in design, enhance collaboration, and ensure that the UI design language and interaction patterns adheres to a consistent, modern, high standard across the organization. Your mentorship will elevate the team’s design craft, enabling them to produce best-in-class interfaces that align with Bitpanda’s vision for empowering financial independence.

Your week will be a mix of providing hands-on guidance in design as a craft, working on key initiatives, and shaping design operations.

What you’ll do

• Influence and oversee experience design quality across our solutions that span across many teams and are determined to the overall business health and growth. You do so with limited guidance, weighing in on strategic business decisions and leading conversations around our experience vision.
• Lead the governance of UI design, ensuring consistency, scalability, and high standards across all of Bitpanda’s products. Mentor and coach the team on UI design craft, providing feedback and ensuring high design quality through design critiques, reviews, and governance practices.
• Own projects and XD initiatives from start to finish, including running design sprints and collaboration sessions to understand and explore customer problems, sketching, wireframing, low and high fidelity prototyping, user testing, and leading stakeholder reviews.
• Drive and optimize design operations, establishing efficient workflows and processes that enable the design team to work effectively across multiple projects and teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, and marketing, to ensure our design language and patterns are aligned with strategic business goals. Shape the long-term UI design vision, continuously improving processes and tools that foster collaboration and creativity.
• Provide hands-on support in high-priority UI design tasks, when needed, to help the team deliver exceptional digital experiences.

Who you are

• Background in fintech or passion for financial products.
• Extensive expertise in experience design, with a strong portfolio showcasing your visual design craft in creating polished, user-centred digital experiences.
• Experience in design operations and governance, with a strong understanding of how to build and scale efficient design processes.
• Experience in mentoring and coaching designers to develop their skills, particularly in UI craft and attention to detail.
• Engage in strategic project discussions considering the holistic customer experience and insights with the ability to break down complex UI challenges into simple, elegant solutions while considering the technical and business constraints.
• Strong organisational and project management skills to oversee multiple design projects and initiatives simultaneously. Proficiency with modern design tools like Figma, Miro, and JIRA, and experience in maintaining and evolving design systems.
• Excellent communication skills in English (German is a plus), and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.

What’s in it for you

• We're proud of our flexible working model that includes 2 days (minimum) working from the local Hub, plus 60 Work From Anywhere days annually
• Total compensation package including participation in our Bitpanda stock option plan
• Competitive benefits programs and policies shaped by our flexibility-first philosophy
• Exclusive premiums when trading on Bitpanda
• Company-wide and team events — both in-person and virtually!
• Bitpanda swag to keep you living the brand

And, above all, the opportunity to learn and grow as part of Bitpanda’s incredible journey towards being Europe’s future #1 investment platform.

Bitpanda is committed to fostering a fair and equal environment based on trust and mutual respect. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace is paramount to our success and we are committed to building a team that represents a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.