Your mission

As a Principal Product Designer at Bitpanda, you’ll play a critical role in shaping our long‑term experience strategy, scaling design quality, and ensuring visual and interaction consistency across products. You’ll lead by example - raising the bar for design craft, defining our future experience principles and owning the evolution of our design system.

This is a high-impact role that sits at the intersection of strategy, systems and craft. You’ll guide cross‑functional teams, influence decisions across product solutions and oversee the building blocks that power high-quality, scalable and accessible user experiences. Through hands‑on leadership and forward‑looking thinking, you’ll ensure Bitpanda continues to deliver product experiences that are both cohesive and future‑ready.

What you'll do
- Raise UX and UI quality across platforms through standards, feedback, audits and design quality rituals.
- Shape and evolve Bitpanda's Design System, including its strategy, contribution model, components, patterns and documentation.
- Partner with Design,



Product and Engineering to improve consistency, accessibility and implementation quality.
- Mentor senior designers, provide structured feedback and raise the standard of design craft.
- Define future‑state journeys, interaction patterns and experience principles that guide product direction.
- Explore AI‑enabled approaches that improve ideation, workflows and team effectiveness.
- Define and track design quality metrics to demonstrate impact and inform decisions.

Who you are
- A Principal Designer with 10+ years of product design experience and deep expertise in design systems.
- A strategic systems thinker who can connect design quality, product needs and business impact.
- Strong in craft, with expertise in components, patterns, interaction design and documentation.
- A trusted partner to Design, Product and Engineering who can influence across teams.
- A multiplier who mentors designers and helps scale

📌 Principal Product Designer (Barcelona)
🏢 Bitpanda
📍 Barcelona