.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