Product Designer

IFT; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 44,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in the UK is seeking a hands-on UI/UX Product Designer to drive the design for their privacy-preserving Super App. You will work with teams to create seamless user experiences across mobile, desktop, and web platforms, emphasizing the importance of privacy and decentralization. The role requires at least 2 years of mobile UI/UX experience and familiarity with crypto applications. Join a remote, agile team that prioritizes user-centric design and innovation.

Benefits

Fully remote work

Flexible working hours

Open-source ethos

Qualifications

• 2+ years mobile UI/UX experience with cross-device examples.
• Startup experience in fast-paced environments.
• Active participant in web3/crypto/privacy activities.

Responsibilities

• Define and refine user flows and interfaces for Status App features.
• Produce storyboards, wireframes, and interactive prototypes.
• Research and prototype new feature UI/UX implementations.

Skills

Mobile UI/UX experience

Strong Figma skills

Experience with crypto wallets or social platforms

Strong communication and collaboration

Job description

We’re looking for a hands-on, self-driven UI/UX Product Designer to own end-to-end product UI/UX for Status Apps across mobile, desktop, and web.

Our mission is to give people the freedom to communicate and transact privately, without surveillance or intermediaries. If you want to design for freedom, privacy, decentralisation, and censorship-resistance — not just another SaaS dashboard—read on.

At Status, we’re building a privacy-preserving Super App for secure, confidential communication and financial coordination with friends, communities, and business partners. The Status app brings together:

• an anonymous, peer-to-peer private messenger that makes it easy to communicate and coordinate your financial transactions and interactions in one place;
• a secure, self-custodial, multi-chain crypto wallet to manage your assets without giving up your privacy;
• censorship-resistant, decentralised communities for people who value privacy, freedom, and autonomy in their digital interactions.

This role isn’t about handing over perfect Figma files—it’s about working with Product and Developers on UI/UX that balances usefulness and aesthetics, enabling fast development iterations, and setting up a design process that empowers developers to move forward on their own when possible—while you focus on big, strategic design challenges (UI/UX research for new features, complex flows, new capabilities).

You’ll join a team that values usefulness over pixel perfection and believes UI/UX should be plain and simple, emphasising product usefulness while still being aesthetic. Inspired by Dieter Rams’ design principles, we believe design should be:

• Useful—solving real user needs and making complex crypto interactions simple.
• Aesthetic—pleasing and coherent, because good design feels good to use.

You should be a driver and a self-starter—ready to roll up your sleeves and take care of end-to-end UI/UX for the Status apps (mobile, desktop, and web), while working in tandem with the Program Lead on user research and use-case refinement. This role requires a strong understanding of mobile UI/UX and creating designs that work across devices—from mobile to desktop and web. Your UI/UX won’t be created in isolation—it will be based on product requirements, user research, and development team input on technical feasibility.

Responsibilities:

• Work with product and developers on defining and refining user flows / journeys, use cases, user interfaces for new and existing Status App features
• Produce storyboards, wireframes, mockups, interactive prototypes, UI kits for the Status app products that work across mobile, desktop, and web — but know when “good enough” is better than perfect.
• Research and prototype new feature UI/UX implementations.
• Set up UI/UX design workflows that scale UI/UX design without the development team needing you in every detail.
• Develop and maintain a cohesive design system aligned with the Status brand.
• Build an understanding of system capabilities to anticipate error states, loading states, and overall implementation effort.
• Integrate with our development team to ensure they receive UI/UX design support as they progress on development.
• Work with product on user research and usability testing to guide product decisions.
• Translate complex crypto and Web3 concepts into clear, intuitive experiences.

We are looking for:

• 2+ years’ mobile UI/UX experience with designs that work across mobile, desktop, and web (must-have). You’ll be asked to demonstrate cross-device examples from your portfolio.
• Startup experience and comfort with fast-paced, ever-changing/adaptable environments.
• UI/UX work for Web2/Web3 products — at least one of: crypto wallets, messengers, or social platforms.
• Active participant in web3/crypto/privacy — not just a user (open-source contributions, dev-community activity, small projects, etc.). Tell us :)
• Comfortable moving and iterating fast on UI/UX: reuse existing components/designs where reasonable; avoid long explorations; produce “bare” first iterations (no whistles and bells).
• Strong Figma skills, and open to other design tools, if needed.
• Able to create/edit product images/videos as needed (good enough and authentic).
• Organised without being robotic — plan and prioritise according to the roadmap and product priorities, but ready to jump on urgent or unexpected work.
• Strong communication and collaboration in a fully remote, async-first environment.
• Autonomous — comfortable working asynchronously, remotely, and without constant oversight.
• Curious — always learning and tracking what’s happening in tech, privacy, and decentralisation.
• Located in or near the European time zone.

Bonus Points:

• Open-source contributions or experience working in public repositories (e.g., GitHub).
• Able to create product and ad illustrations.
• UI/UX experience working on an open-source project.
• Strong interest in Web3/blockchain/decentralised technologies.

Why Join us?

• Work on apps that respect people’s privacy and autonomy, not exploit them.
• Fully remote, async-first culture — built for independence, not micromanagement.
• Small, agile team where your work directly shapes the product.
• Open-source ethos: your work is public, transparent, and impactful.

Hiring process:

• Intro call with Talent team member
• Portfolio review on UI/UX design and component decisions with our UI/UX designer
• Task + debrief interview (Optional)
• Product Lead interview

The steps may change along the way if we see it makes sense to adapt the interview stages, so please consider the above as a guideline.

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Please share publicly available links to your portfolio; ideally include at least one project in crypto wallets, messengers, or social platforms. If none, share the closest relevant apps you’ve worked on & are proud of. Examples should feature your mobile UI/UX that works (or can work) across mobile, desktop, and web to demonstrate cross-device design. Feel free to share which features you, personally, designed.

What sparked your interest in this role? What stands out in this job description that convinced you to submit your application?

Why do you think you're a good fit for this role?

Would you be willing to accept part of your payment in Crypto?

What are your pay expectations? (please provide a gross, annual amount in USD). Please note that we are able to make payments in a wide range of fiat currencies.

In general (without going into details), how do you approach UI/UX design to ensure it works across devices (mobile, desktop, and web)?

What do privacy and censorship resistance mean to you, and how could UI/UX product design embody them in an app?

In general (without going into details), how would you set up a UI/UX design process that enables fast development iterations and empowers developers to move forward on their own (i.e. without your input) when possible—while you focus on big, strategic design challenges?

What is your experience working for startups, and how do you find working in a startup environment?

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