UX Design Lead (Contractor)

What You Will Do

We’re looking for an experienced Design Lead to enhance the user experience across Klarna’s consumer-facing products. The positions will be critical to shaping products used by millions every day.

You will:

• Drive end-to-end product design, from early discovery and concepting to prototyping and polished interfaces.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other designers to develop innovative solutions that meet user needs and business goals.
• Conduct research and apply user insights to inform design decisions.
• Build advanced prototypes to explore, validate, and communicate design ideas.
• Elevate design quality across your product team, providing clarity on design direction and opportunities.
• Contribute to the evolution of Klarna’s design systems and best practices.

Who You Are

• Extensive experience leading product design in cross-functional teams.
• High proficiency in Figma, with experience using Figma Make.
• Strong ability to communicate design decisions clearly to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Skilled in building prototypes to test hypotheses and illustrate design concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to simplify complex problems and influence product strategy through design.

Awesome to Have

• Experience using Cursor or other AI-enhanced design/development tools.
• Background working in fast-paced environments or at high-growth tech companies.
• Familiarity with design systems and scaling design across multiple products or platforms.
• Interest in contributing to team culture, mentorship, and design critiques.

Closing

Please include a CV in English.

Please provide your portfolio, either as a link or an attached file.

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