Senior UX/UI Designer, Skilllab
Arabic Speaking
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Career exploration platform
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Career exploration platform
21-100 employees
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21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower people to turn their skills into careers.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of work experience in User Experience Design or a related role, eg. User Interface, Interaction, Graphic, or Product design, etc. Combined experience in building products in-house and working with external clients will be highly appreciated
- Arabic language knowledge at a native level
- Ability to present and advocate for design decisions with clients and stakeholders, ensuring alignment between user needs and business objectives
- Deep understanding of user-centered design principles
- Proficiency in Figma design and prototyping
- Data-informed approach to making design decisions, leveraging usability testing, usage analytics, market research, etc
- Flexibility and agility to adapt to changing requirements, and the initiative and leadership to create clarity from uncertainty
- Experience working directly with product managers and software engineers to maintain and use design systems
Desirable
- Experience planning and executing formative and evaluative UX research
- Experience working with HR tech, E-learning or matching platforms
- Expertise in designing user experiences informed by best-practices of designing for ML- and recommender-based systems
What the job involves
- You will join our User Experience (UX) team as our new Senior User experience/User Interface (UX/UI) Designer. You will be part of an join an expert UX team who champions user-centered design, driving product success through insightful research and intuitive interface development
- Also, you will work in an international environment of ±65 SkillLabers from ±30 different countries in the heart of Amsterdam
- You will directly report to , who is the UX Lead
- The UI/UX professionals that make the UX team so special are , , and
- You will also cooperate with our product management, engineering and Data science teams within the product function
- We are proud of the people we collaborate with and excited to work at a company with a strong social mission. We hope you will be too!
- You will be the UX owner of one or more of SkillLab’s major enterprise clients. You will work with clients and internal stakeholders to align on scope, product definition, and co-create design solutions
- You will contribute to the development of new features and products by understanding clients' needs through engagement workshops, concept development and iterative user research
- You will work at different design altitudes to map out user journeys, create end-to-end flows, and produce detailed user interface design specifications for implementation
- You will maintain and evolve our design system; introduce new components and adapt existing components to accommodate new functionality while maintaining interoperability with existing components
- You will identify opportunities for foundational user research, and define, scope, plan and execute research with support from a dedicated User Experience Researcher
Our take
Founded with a focus on the integration of refugees into European labour markets, SkillLab is now a technology company assisting all job seekers that are in need of career support.
Using artificial intelligence, SkillLab helps people discover their skills and connects them to relevant careers and education. Founded in Amsterdam, the company operates in over fifteen countries and has grown its market position after its innovative use of AI was recognised with the Google AI Impact Award.
Despite expanding its services to cater to all job seekers, it hasn’t forgotten its original focus on work with social impact, recently partnering with Humans in the Loop to improve the employment and education prospects of forcibly displaced people in seven different countries.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2021
$1.7m
SEED
Total funding: $1.7m
Company benefits
- Join our bi-annual offsite events for the whole company
- Easily access your learning budget to invest in your personal development
- Access to mentors & coaches (SkillLab is part of the Google for Startups SDG accelerator)
- Learn from your colleagues during company-wide lunch learning exchanges
- Receive feedback from your peers and team lead at least twice per year
- Contribute to various digital or physical company-wide events through the year
- Work flexibly from our office in Amsterdam, or remotely with intermittent trips to Amsterdam
- Get relocation support, incl. visa, 30% ruling application, to move to Amsterdam
- Get work equipment and commuting support if you don’t live in Amsterdam
- Work in a team with people from 12 countries, using English as their shared language
- Enjoy 25 paid vacation days per year, and additional leave (e.g. parental leave)
- Regularly interact with our users and see our impact on their lives
Company HQ
Oude Pijp, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Ulrich Scharf
(Managing Director)Previously co-founded rootAbility and Maastricht University Green Office, serving there as Sustainability Project Coordinator. Experience as Director of IT and Analytics for GRESB and as a Bank Clerk for Commerzbank AG.
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