Senior Product Designer
RemoteStockholm, Stockholm, Sweden or Sweden
Job Summary
Own product surfaces end-to-end, taking full responsibility from problem framing through shipped pixels while working directly with engineers in the codebase. Design for complex billing and finance domains, translating concepts like usage meters and pricing models into interfaces that merchants trust. Extend the design system by evolving tokens, primitives, and domain-specific components, then raise the craft bar by reviewing work and pushing for quality. Operate with high autonomy to ship meaningful improvements within 90 days, shaping the design function as the team grows. This role sits at the center of the Polar product, ideal for someone combining real craft with systems thinking to design for a technical, high-stakes domain.
Required Qualifications
- Taste you can defend – You have strong opinions about interface quality and can articulate why, without hiding behind 'it just feels better.'
- Subtraction over addition – Your instinct when a surface gets complicated is to remove, not to add another affordance. You're comfortable saying no to features on aesthetic and clarity grounds.
- You ship – You measure yourself by what's live, not by what's in your file. You'd rather get something in front of merchants and iterate than perfect it in isolation.
- Clear writer – You can make an argument in text: a product rationale, a spec, a critique. Most of our decisions happen in writing.
- High ownership – Comfortable operating without a design manager, a design process, or someone else deciding what matters this week.
- Exceptional craft in the fundamentals. Typography, layout, hierarchy, motion.
- Systems thinking. You design components and patterns, not screens, and you understand how a token layer and a component library actually get maintained.
- Comfortable in code. You don't need to be an engineer, but you should be able to read React and TypeScript, run the project locally, and make front-end changes yourself.
- Fluency with data-dense interfaces: tables, charts, configuration, state. You've designed something genuinely complicated before.
- 8+ years designing digital products, with significant time on a developer-facing, fintech, or infrastructure product.
- A portfolio that shows depth on complex product surfaces — not just marketing sites and mobile onboarding flows.
- Demonstrated ownership of a design system, or substantial contributions to one.
Desired Qualifications
- (Bonus) You've shipped your own front-end code to production.
- (Bonus) Experience with payments, billing, or subscription infrastructure.
- (Bonus) You've worked in a small, fast-moving team where the playbook didn't exist yet.
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