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Senior Product & Brand Designer
Senior product and brand designer with 10+ years of experience. Specializes in 0-to-1 product design for technically complex fintech and web3 products — end-to-end ownership from user research and wireframing through visual design, design systems, and developer handoff. Comfortable at founding-team level: high autonomy, stakeholder management with founders, shipping fast under real constraints. Most recent work: led all design for a high-volume financial product from inception to $2B+ in processed transactions.
Experience: 10 years
Yearly salary: $120,000
Hourly rate: $0
Nationality: 🇩🇪 Germany
Residency: 🇫🇮 Finland
Experience
Senior Product & Brand Designer
Ren Protocol 2021 - 2023
Led full brand identity refresh and owned end-to-end product design for a fintech/web3 Bitcoin bridge facilitating approximately $13B in transaction volume. Produced wireframes, prototypes, and final visual design for cross-chain interoperability UI; conducted user research to validate interaction patterns — work became widely referenced across the web3 ecosystem. Sole designer across all product surfaces and brand materials; stakeholder management with founders and engineering in a technically complex DeFi environment.
Product Designer
Studio Hartensteiner 2017 - 2020
End-to-end product design for clients including BMW and Messe Leipzig — wireframing, prototyping, visual design, and developer handoff across digital and physical product work. Design lead for complex digital-first projects; stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration across high-stakes B2B contexts.
Designer & Product Manager
Bombtrack 2016 - 2017
Sole designer at a consumer product manufacturer — full ownership across product design, visual identity, production coordination, catalogs, and digital launch assets; managed external stakeholders and production partners.
Skills
brand-designer
brand-marketing
founding-member
lead-designer
motion-designer
ui-ux-designer
ux-researcher
design
english