Senior Product Designer - Embed

The role

You will design a surface for Kota Embed where sort-order decisions move real money. You will co-design data models with the UI and produce working prototypes as design output.

What you will do

• Design a surface where sort-order decisions move real money
• Co-design data models with the UI
• Produce working prototypes as design output
• Conduct research methods at sprint cadence
• Perform Datadog/Mixpanel log analysis
• Facilitate internal design reviews
• Lock down problem, assumptions, and success criteria before agreeing to a solution
• Promote patterns to primitives through systems thinking
• Get devs and stakeholders to attend usability sessions
• Build and facilitate ceremonies like standups, retros, and backlog grooming

Required qualifications

• Worked inside a complex product
• Shipped something with invisible complexity
• Research methods at sprint cadence
• Outcomes-over-outputs discipline
• Systems thinking
• UX influence work
• Craft fundamentals including type, spacing, rhythm, and hierarchy
• Builder craft with Cursor / Claude Code comfort

Nice to have

• Worked inside B2B products
• Worked inside API-driven products
• Embedded financial products
• Fintech, financial services, insurance, or benefits platforms
• Developer product experiences

Benefits

• Attractive stock options
• Health Insurance
• Life assurance (country dependent)
• Up to 5% matched contribution to a Workplace Pension (country dependent)
• WFH stipend to support your home office needs

Before you apply

• Recruiter Screen: 30-minute initial alignment conversation
• Intro call: 45-minute 1-on-1 video call
• Design deep-dive: 60-90-minute call to review portfolio and work through a design systems challenge
• Culture call with founders

About the company

Kota is a broker that runs employee benefits by combining health cover, pensions, protection, spend cards, and flexible perks with HRIS integrations. It powers benefits for more than 100,000 employees.