
Principal Product Designer with a focus on creating great user experiences for FinTech products and services. Own design studio in San Francisco, California, then Copenhagen, Denmark – now remote. Concept development and hands on execution for companies such as Apple in California and Google Ventures – as well as bitcoin and blockchain companies such as River Financial, Spiral, Kraken, Chainalysis, Stellar, Blockstack and Bitcoin Suisse. Product- and Design Director for a set of European FinTech companies – solid experience with team building, management and leadership. Able to communicate with all levels of senior management. Comfortable articulating the rationale behind design decisions – and able to discuss that rationale. Participated in a series of tech startups. Jury member for three consecutive years at Creative Circle Award, the largest creative award in Scandinavia. Examiner at Danish School of Media and Journalism. Examiner at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts- Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK). External Lecturer at Kolding School of Design. Recently received a design grant from Spiral (Block), researching novel approaches to Private Key Management for bitcoin. The research, New mnemonics, was later published in Bitcoin Magazine. Design grant https://medium.com/@thorbjoernkoenig Portfolio https://www.behance.net/thorbjoernkoenig
lightningbolt.com
e-conomic.com
reviso.com
ovendigital.com
spiral.xyz
co.uk
kraken.com
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Principal Product Designer
Thorbjoern Koenig
• www.linkedin.com/company/lightningbolt
Aug 2020 - Present
Head of Design
proemial
• www.linkedin.com/company/proem-ai
Mar 2024 - Aug 2024
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
Senior Product Designer
Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
• www.linkedin.com/company/krakenfx
May 2021 - Jan 2022
Design Grant
Spiral
• www.linkedin.com/company/spiralbtc
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
Remote
Head of Design
Chainalysis Inc.
• www.linkedin.com/company/chainalysis
Jul 2018 - Jul 2020
New York, New York, United States
Head of Design
Reviso
• www.linkedin.com/company/reviso-españa
May 2016 - Jan 2018
Copenhagen Area, Denmark
chainalysis.com
proem.ai
ordinarykids.com