Senior Product Designer - Embed

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Reporting to: CTO

Location: Remote +/- 4hrs GMT

About Kota

Kota is the only broker that runs employee benefits for you. Combining health cover, pensions, protection, spend cards, and flexible perks with HRIS integrations, Kota replaces spreadsheets, manual admin, and once-a-year broker calls with one connected system - backed by a team of benefits experts behind every recommendation.

Kota powers benefits for more than 100,000 employees, across companies from fast-growing scale-ups to global HR and payroll platforms.

Investors include Eurazeo, EQT Ventures, Northzone, Frontline Ventures, 9Yards, and Plug and Play Ventures. The Kota team includes experts who previously led at global financial services firms and fintechs such as Airwallex, Stripe, Bolt, Revolut - as well as insurance and benefits providers such as Aviva, Allianz, AXA, and Smart Pension..

Who are we looking for

Perfect for a senior who wants to think as part of the job (not just ship).

On Kota Embed you design a surface where a sort-order decision moves real money for tens of thousands of people, where the data model is co-designed with the UI, where 6–10 stakeholders are co-present in major decisions, where constraints become design surfaces rather than obstacles, where prototypes are spec, and where the work compounds into a body of named, citable patterns rather than dissolving into ad-hoc Figma files.

At this moment this is not a steady-state senior IC role. It's a "the ground is moving and you need to own the design quality while it does" role.

You need to want that, not just tolerate it.

What we are looking for

• A designer who has worked inside a complex product (ideally B2B, double ideally it was API-driven), understands why the data model constrains the interface, and finds that constraint interesting rather than annoying.

• You've shipped something with invisible complexity. Not a marketing site, not a dashboard with toggles. You succeeded, and you can explain how you thought through it.

• Research methods at sprint cadence. 5-user tests, rapid Figma Make/Cursor/Paper prototyping, Datadog/Mixpanel log analysis, facilitating internal design reviews. You also know when to skip research and ship. The mantra: "rough data is better than no data; you can't remove uncertainty - triage it"

• Outcomes-over-outputs discipline. Lock down problem / assumptions / success criteria before agreeing to a solution.

• Systems thinking - promoting patterns to primitives. Recurring interaction surfaces become design-system components.

• UX influence work. Getting devs/stakeholders to attend usability sessions. Building and facilitating ceremonies (standups, retros, backlog grooming) so design becomes shared team context, not an isolated artifact.

• Craft fundamentals. Type, spacing, rhythm, hierarchy. The basics, worked at 400% zoom - quality and speed aren't opposites.

• Builder craft. Cursor / Claude Code comfort. Treating prototypes as spec means producing working prototypes is the design output. Closing the gap between design and engineering rather than widening it.

Things you might know about or be interested in

• Embedded financial products.

• Fintech, financial services, insurance, or benefits platforms.

• Developer product experiences, understanding of how to design for technical users and embedded/integration-heavy products.

Our Hiring Process

1. Recruiter Screen: A 30-minute initial alignment conversation to understand f there is a match.

2. Intro call: A 45-minute 1-on-1 video call. We'll discuss Kota, your background, and your approach to collaboration and design systems.

3. Design deep-dive: A 60-90-minute call with our product and existing design team member to review portfolio work in detail, discuss design methodology, and work through a design systems challenge.

4. Culture call with founders: Chat with founders focused on culture and product thinking.

Our Values

• Have Integrity. We care deeply about our why and it won’t jeopardise our how.

• Care Deeply. Our products are our story, we look at the details, go the extra mile to delight customers.

• Own Your Ship. Ask why, do the work, get the data, solve the problem, be an owner.

• Raise the Bar. We continuously look to push past good enough. Expect more, move faster, and never stop raising your and the team’s standards.

• Play to Win. We exist because we decided to say no to the norm – now we do this everyday.

Kota Benefits

• Attractive stock options to share in the success of Kota

• Health Insurance

• Life assurance (country dependent)

• Up to 5% matched contribution to a Workplace Pension (country dependent)

• WFH stipend to support your home office needs

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.