Senior Product Designer, Contentful
AI Experimentation
+ Stock options
Content management platform
Be an early applicant
Content management platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To modernize how content flows by leading the transition from legacy CMS to content infrastructure.
Role
Who you are
- If you combine a passion for problem-solving and systems design with solid interaction and UI design skills, this role may be a good fit. You should be keen to facilitate user research studies and team workshops and have experience working with design systems
- Minimum 5 years of experience
- Self-starter and organized. Showcasing a proactive attitude
- Open to trade-offs and negotiation
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and capable of adding clarity to the table
- Strong conceptual skills to design for complex scenarios
- Strong communicator and user advocate
- Comfortable communicating with company leadership
- Experience working with design systems and solid knowledge of interaction patterns
- Experience with user research and testing
- Experience in meeting and workshop facilitation
- Experience designing Generative AI solutions is an important plus
What the job involves
- In today's digital-first world, content is the customer experience. As an individual or business, you interact through content, differentiate using content, and achieve your goals with content. Content is what powers every single experience throughout our day
- The User Experience team empowers builders to compose awesome content experiences through platform collaboration using a diverse range of products tailored to their needs
- As a Senior Product Designer - AI Experimentation (f/m/d), you will work with a cross-functional team to discover, define and deliver experiences that empower development teams to efficiently collaborate, build fast and release safely
- You’ll join a design guild of passionate design generalists who enjoy continuous learning, and the opportunity to impact the product and the organisation in a meaningful way
- You’ll be a key player in your cross-functional product development team and contribute to initiatives to make your product team and the design guild more successful
- Deeply understand user needs, cultivating empathy across stakeholders and collaborators to ensure user-centred outcomes
- Lead and facilitate discovery workshops, fostering creativity, alignment, and AI-driven ideation within the team
- Explore solutions from multiple perspectives, championing the user’s voice throughout the process
- Deliver high-quality artefacts such as user journeys, concept maps, UI mockups, and prototypes
- Shape team goals and success metrics that align with business objectives and deliver measurable impact
- Contribute to the definition of stories and requirements, ensuring clarity and shared understanding
- Represent your team’s work effectively, whether through presentations to business stakeholders or collaborative discussions
- Run experiments and user testing and improve the user experience through iteration, exploring innovative solutions that push the boundaries of our user experience
- Collaborate with Product Designers across the organization to raise the quality bar and evolve our craft
Our take
Creating, distributing and managing digital content can be complex, time-consuming and difficult, especially at scale. Contentful solves this problem by centralizing all content management into one API-based system.
Since founding in 2013, Contentful has grown to become one of the largest companies of its kind. It now serves thousands of customers, many of which are enterprises such as Danone and Bang & Olufsen. Importantly, the company has continued to improve its offering, for example by partnering with eSSENTIAL Accessibility to offer a way for users to achieve ADA compliance.
In recent years, Contentful has grown its executive team, attracting top talent from companies like Zendesk and Atlassian which has helped to accelerate its ambitious growth strategy. It has also expanded its relationship with AWS, launching the Contentful Composable Content Platform in AWS Marketplace, a key move that will help to broaden its reach and ensure it remains a key player in the competitive CMS market.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Employee endorsements
Diversity is a priority
"I really like the no-nonsense approach to D+E+I in Contentful. We employ people from over 70 nationalities, there are a lot of grassroots employee..."
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2021
$175m
SERIES F
Jun 2020
$80m
SERIES E
Total funding: $331.1m
Company benefits
- Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
- Generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, education days, and volunteer days
- Use your personal education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
- Enjoy a full range of virtual events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
- Use your physical fitness budget to get away from your desk and support your physical wellness
- A monthly phone/internet stipend and phone upgrade reimbursement after 2 years
- Plus, Contentful socks! And other amazing swag as part of company events. Oh yeah!
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for information, support, discussion, and counseling for life’s challenges
Company values
- Be humble - We are not centered on ourselves, but focus on the needs and contributions of others around them
- Embody a growth mindset - We believe in our collective potential to develop and evolve through dedication and continuous learning
- Start with the customer and work backwards - The first question we ask is “What customer need does this solve?” and treats each customer with empathy
- Strive together - Creating anything of significance without collaboration is challenging, so we work hard together to make an impact
Company HQ
Brunnenviertel, Berlin, Germany
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Leadership
Paolo Negri
(CTO)Previously worked as Senior Developer at AutoScout24, and Senior Developer Team Lead at Wooga.
Sascha Konietzke
(CSO & Board Member)Previously worked as EMEA Manager at Hewlett-Packard, and founded a range of companies including angel investment firm Ko9.
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