Product Designer Porto

Product Designer
Porto
Porto, Porto District, Portugal

About Uphold

Uphold is a financial technology company that believes
- chain services are the future of finance. It provides modern infrastructure for
- chain payments, banking, and investments. Offering Consumer Services, Business Services, and Institutional Trading, Uphold makes pioneering financial services easy and trusted for millions of customers in more than 140 countries.

Uphold strips away the complexity and lack of transparency to open up Web3 finance for everyone.

To learn more about Uphold, please visit https://uphold.com.

The opportunity:

Uphold is looking for a Product Designer to join our Product team in Braga, Portugal, for a 6-month
- term contract, to cover a maternity leave. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity where you’ll get to play a key role on the team by being directly responsible for developing delightful user experiences, collaborating with
- functional teams, and creating user interfaces that solve users' pain points.

Primary responsibilities:

1. Define product experiences that will make financial services transparent, efficient, and easy to understand.
2. Partner with our product team and collaborate with stakeholders, product managers to iterate quickly through possible solutions, build prototypes to validate hypotheses and gain consensus, and deliver actionable polished designs to engineers for implementation in a transparent and
   - driven process.
3. Implement user flows, interactions, and experiences that are simple, intuitive, and consistent across web and mobile platforms.
4. Build and evangelize Uphold Design System, a unifying set of collaborative tools, assets, and processes that enables Uphold product design.
5. Occasionally wear multiple design hats, to guarantee consistency into the journey of acquisition (it’s not about ads).

Required qualifications:

1. Degree in Design or a related field.
2. At least 3 years of experience designing at
   - focused tech or media companies.
3. Strong online portfolio to demonstrate your design process, cases, and skills.
4. Experience designing for multiple platforms (i
   OS, Android, Desktop, among others) with current tools (Figma, Sketch, Abstract, Adobe CC, among others).
5. Strong knowledge of current UX best practices, including user research and accessibility across mobile and web.
6. Fluent written and oral English skills.

Bonus if you have:

1. Experience working in fintech or
   - related topics as a Product Designer.
2. Fluency in cryptocurrencies or other digital assets as they are core to our business.

What we offer:

1. Innovation and Impact: Contribute to pioneering projects in a dynamic and challenging environment.
2. Competitive Compensation: Stock options, performance bonuses, and comprehensive benefits on top of a competitive salary.
3. Strong Company Culture: Thrive in a supportive, collegiate environment with values of integrity, teamwork, accountability, and excellence.
4. Global Collaboration: Participate in regular updates, strategy sessions, and networking opportunities across the group.
5. Development Opportunities: Access training and mentorship programs.
6. Flexibility: Enjoy options to work from home, other locations, or adjust your hours.
7. Inclusive Environment: Value and respect diverse perspectives.

Benefits:

1. Generous PTO, healthcare, and employee assistance programs.
2. Engaging events and celebrations.
3. Well-stocked office kitchen with a foodie culture.

Join us to grow, innovate, and contribute meaningfully. Be part of our talented team!

Visit our careers page for more exciting opportunities, if this role isn’t the perfect fit.

EEOC Employer

We're proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we celebrate our employees' differences, including race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, and any other protected classes. Difference makes us stronger and better - together.