Senior Product Designer, InstaFreight

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Designer in a startup environment, with a strong portfolio showcasing your design work and process (please include your portfolio, or a link to it, in your application)
• Vast experience conducting user research to extract qualitative insights that drive product decisions
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and usability best practices
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to effectively convey design concepts and rationale to cross-functional teams
• Comfortable working in an agile environment with changing priorities
• Ability to work in English (our company language) and German (the language of many of our customers)

Desirable

• As a Senior Product Designer at InstaFreight, you will be responsible for driving the design strategy for our products
• You will be expected to establish design best-practices in the company, push for a user-centric approach to product development and evangelize about product design
• You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Product Managers and Engineers to create solutions that delight our customers and drive business success
• You will also mentor other Product Designers in the company
• Provide vision, leadership, and mentorship to the product design team, fostering a culture of design excellence
• Develop and execute a design strategy that aligns with the company's overall goals and product roadmap
• Understand our users, lead user research initiatives together with Product Managers and be a key part in the product discovery process
• Collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to translate product requirements into effective design solutions
• Create interactive prototypes and design mockups to communicate your ideas and concepts effectively
• Conduct usability testing and gather user feedback to iterate and improve designs
• Establish and maintain a design system to ensure design consistency across all products and platforms

• First call - a 30-45 minute meeting with a member of our People and Culture team, to tell you a bit more about the company and the role, and see if yours and our expectations match
• Second call - a 45 minute Google Meets or in person interview with the hiring manager to dive deeper into the responsibilities and nuances of the role, and your experience
• Live challenge and onsite interview - This consists of a few things totalling 3.5 hours which is ideally in person, but can be done online if needed:
• At the beginning of the session we will share with you a challenge which you can work for a preiod of time
• You will then briefly present your solution, and discuss the case with the hiring manager and one or two Tech stakeholders
• A short break; grab a coffe with the hiring manager and have a look around the office, simply step outside for a breather, or both!
• Meet some of your internal business stakeholders. Get a chance to better know who you'll be working with, and what it is we do here
• A debrief with the hiring manager to close off the session
• Final call - 15-30 minutes where we either present you with an offer or give you feedback as to why you were unsuccessful this time around