Head of Design/ Art Director
Tangem offers a secure hardware wallet for cryptocurrencies, designed to be as slim as a bank card. It allows users to store, buy, earn, transfer, and swap thousands of coins and tokens, emphasizing simplicity and convenience for both newcomers and experts in self-custody.
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About Tangem AG
Tangem is a Swiss-based company that provides a secure hardware wallet for managing digital assets. Their product, the Tangem Wallet, is a card-shaped device that contains a powerful, certified microchip (EAL6+) developed with Samsung Semiconductors. This chip generates a random, non-extractable private key offline, ensuring high security against hacking. The wallet supports thousands of cryptocurrencies and allows users to store, buy, sell, swap, and stake them through the Tangem app. The system is designed for simplicity, with a 3-minute setup and no need for batteries or charging. It features a smart backup system using multiple cards instead of a traditional seed phrase, although seed phrase import is also supported. The company emphasizes security with independent firmware audits by Kudelski Security and Riscure, and its app code is open-source on GitHub. Tangem aims to make self-custody accessible to a broad audience, from beginners to advanced crypto users.
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About the Role
You will lead and scale the entire design organization at Tangem, shaping how design strategy comes together across Product, Brand, Marketing, and Communications. You'll build and mentor a multidisciplinary team of UX/UI, Product, Graphic, Motion, and Brand designers, while creating scalable processes and quality standards that keep everything consistent across digital and physical touchpoints. You'll juggle priorities across product, marketing, and business needs, and work closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Business Development to keep everyone aligned. From websites and social creatives to print materials, packaging, merchandise, and exhibition booths, you'll oversee it all, while also introducing AI-powered tools to make the whole team more efficient. You'll also own design KPIs, hiring, career growth, and performance management, building a culture centered on ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional design experience, including several years leading multidisciplinary design teams
- Experience managing designers across multiple disciplines, not only UX/UI, but also graphic, brand, marketing, and motion design
- Strong understanding of both digital and physical design production, including print, merchandise, packaging, exhibition materials, and marketing assets
- Experience organizing design operations in a fast-growing company with multiple parallel streams of work
- Proven ability to build and optimize design processes, planning, prioritization, and resource allocation
- Experience working closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and executive stakeholders
- Strong understanding of design systems, brand systems, and cross-platform consistency
- Experience with AI-powered creative tools (ChatGPT, Midjourney, Runway, Adobe Firefly, Figma AI, or similar) and the ability to integrate them into design workflows
- Excellent leadership, communication, mentoring, and organizational skills
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the overall design strategy across Product, Brand, Marketing, and Communications
- Lead, mentor, and grow a multidisciplinary team of designers, including UX/UI, Product, Graphic, Motion, and Brand designers
- Build scalable design processes, workflows, and quality standards across multiple design disciplines
- Balance resources and priorities across product development, marketing initiatives, and business needs
- Ensure consistency of the brand and user experience across all digital and physical touchpoints
- Drive collaboration between Design, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Business Development, and external vendors
- Oversee the production of product UX/UI, marketing websites and landing pages, social media creatives, digital advertising and banner campaigns, print materials and packaging, merchandise, exhibition booths and event branding, presentations and sales materials, motion graphics and promotional videos
- Introduce and scale AI-powered tools and workflows to improve design efficiency and creative output
- Define design KPIs, planning, hiring, career development, and performance management for the design team
- Build a culture of ownership, quality, experimentation, and continuous improvement
Benefits
- Remote work from anywhere in the world, excluding Russia and Belarus
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Birthday presents
- Compensation for the purchase of necessary technical devices for work