About Kota

Kota is making insurance and retirement benefits as accessible as modern software. We do this across the Kota Platform - the world's first fully integrated benefits platform and Kota Embed - our embedded insurance and retirement product for platforms.

Our mission is to make insurance and benefits more accessible and delightful to this generation of employees.

Founded in 2022, Kota has raised €20m from Europe's top technology investors, including Eurazeo, EQT Ventures, Northzone, Frontline, and angels, including Job Van Der Voort of Remote, Romain Huet, formerly of Stripe, now Open AI, and David Clarke, formerly of Workday. The companies our investors have previously backed or built include Spotify, Airbnb, Klarna, Truelayer, Snapchat, Workday, Personio, Workvivo, Pointy, Workable, Wayflyer and more.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our design team, where you’ll learn about Kota, our products and business.

This is a foundational design leadership role where you'll shape how platforms, businesses and their employees experience insurance and benefits through our embedded UIs and more. You'll work closely with our existing designer and help elevate the entire design function through taste, systems thinking, and design leadership.

As our first senior designer, you'll be expected to drive design strategy, create and enhance our design systems for health and life insurers, and ensure our embedded products deliver exceptional experiences across all integration touchpoints.

Why Join Us?

• Shape the Future of Benefits: Your designs will directly impact how millions of employees access insurance and retirement benefits through platforms they already use daily.
• Design Systems Leadership: Build and evolve design systems that serve multiple insurer integrations and create consistency across our embedded ecosystem.
• Cross-Product Impact: Work across our developer products group to create features and experiences that enhance all our integrations.
• Mentorship Opportunity: Guide and develop our existing designer while building the design culture for our growing team.
• Modern Design Environment: Work with cutting-edge embedded technologies and help define the future of insurance UX.
• Autonomy and Ownership: Lead design decisions from strategy through execution with real responsibility from day one.

You’ll be joining a team of people who are all incredibly passionate, driven and excited about the work we’re doing and the change it’s creating across the industry and we’re looking for someone excited to join us and bring that same energy with you.

What You Bring

• A track record in product design of delivering compelling customer experiences across the whole product experience.
• The foundations to mould a design strategy for our products, making decisions that impact how hundreds of thousands of people access insurance and retirement.
• An ability to think holistically about user experiences to simplify and unify complex, fragmented product experiences into a coherent and trustworthy journey giving users a consistent sense of familiarity and safety across markets.
• Comfort in working at pace and being able to pivot direction based on fresh company strategies and initiatives.
• Proven experience creating, maintaining, and scaling design systems and thinking in ways to create reusable patterns and components across each product.
• A portfolio of design work that demonstrates how you solve customer problems, design systems around complex requirements, and can deliver creative product ideas and solutions to these challenges.
• Well established sync and async communication and presentation skills to align stakeholders across the business, compliance and product teams.

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 Design Team

You'll be joining our design team early and work with existing product designer. Together, you'll form the core of our design function working closely together on design and design reviews.

Our Hiring Process

1. Intro call: A 30-minute 1-on-1 video call. We'll discuss Kota, your background, and your approach to design systems and team leadership.
2. Design deep-dive: A 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.
3. Culture call with founders: Chat with founders focused on culture and product
4. Successful applicants will receive an offer via email.