Senior Product Designer, Altura
Offers Stock Appreciation Rights (SAR) 💸
2 days a week in office
Bid management software for suppliers
Be an early applicant
Bid management software for suppliers
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
Offers Stock Appreciation Rights (SAR) 💸
2 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make bid management more efficient.
Role
Who you are
- Must have demonstrated experience designing SaaS software that is easy to use and maintain
- Familiarity with designing holistic, complete workflows, and larger design visions or North Star Vision Designs
- Experience fostering collaboration across multiple product teams and stakeholders
- Experience conducting your own research with a variety of methods, and strong decision-making skills for when to do research
- Strong visual design skills with the ability to balance leveraging the design system and recognizing when a unique component is needed
- An interest in programming languages and the fundamentals of coding is a plus
What the job involves
- As the scope has grown, so have our challenges
- Quite frankly, we have plenty of product opportunities to expand on, both in breadth and depth
- I am excited to hire a design co-partner to really drive the product forward
- Joining Altura means playing a key role in shaping the company’s future and revolutionizing the bid and tendering process
- While every designer can design in Figma, you’ll be given free reign to really drive the product forward
- Working closely with your team of product owners, customer success, sales, engineers (hell the entire company) is a non-negotiable
- Example projects that you will work on (and probably you have too):
- Transitioning to a AI-native solution → Meaning building a product foundation for our own AI model to learn, evolve, and develop from
- Rethink the entire interaction model for Bid management. If you had a cart blanche, how would you go about filling it?
- Having spent the last years building an E2E solution within the Bid management process, we are looking forward to really empower users to derive more value from our platform
- By engaging daily with customers, designed and helped deliver a tender analysis tooling (think analysing hundreds of pdfs and excel sheets) by leveraging state of the art AI solutions, that saves users days in work time
- Building a set of flexible, composable components for our design system that will allow for best in class developer experience
- This position offers the chance to contribute to highly visible and impactful projects. You’ll deliver solutions that users will interact with directly, and your goal will be to ensure these solutions are well executed but also strategically impactful
- Our brand is rooted in a deep empathy for our users and customers. Engaging regularly with users, addressing their needs, and translating insights into impactful solutions is not just encouraged – it’s expected. In this role, you’ll conduct user research and usability testing to validate your ideas and ensure the best outcomes
- You’ll work closely with engineers and product leadership to develop a cohesive design vision and strategy. Beyond strategy, you’ll execute on this vision by delivering innovative solutions that uncover opportunities to enhance the end-to-end bid management workflow
- We don’t have a pixel perfect product design process. You will need to contribute to it. Our input in the product development process is not just valued, it's expected
- Empower engineers to have ownership and autonomy over projects. We as product designers thrive in deeply understanding problems and coming up w clever solutions. It is part of your job to develop that know-how within the teams
- You feel comfortable contributing and evolving our design system
- Though we aspire to become a data-informed company, we are not there yet. You are expected to contribute to it
- We work with (but not only) Figma, amongst other tools
Application process
- This role will be open until February 16th, and we’ll be reviewing all applications after that date
- Resume Review Period: Monday, February 17-Friday, February 21
- First Round Outreach: We’ll contact all candidates before Monday, February 24 to schedule first-round interviews
Our take
Nowadays, procurement processes require increasingly complex documentation, and the bidding process can be very repetitive. This wastes the time of teams that must re-enter the same information for every new proposal - which is what Altura hopes to address.
Altura enables teams to scrape data analysis and insights from pre-existing bids and proposals and use this information in the management of future bids. Ultimately, this means that teams can focus on strategy and highlighting value as opposed to the manual tasks of preparing a bid, as well as inform from past failure and success.
Process automation for companies isn’t exactly a new idea, but Altura’s focus on procurement processes gives them an attractive market niche. It’s early days for the company, but it already has European clients across a variety of industries and is using its early-stage funding to fine-tune its product and bring on new hires.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2024
$3.2m
SEED
Mar 2022
$0.6m
ANGEL
Total funding: $3.7m
Company benefits
- Virtual Stock Units (VSU) 💸
- 26 vacation days 🏖️
- Hybrid way of working 🏡💻
- Flexibility - want to have the Friday afternoon off and work on Sunday? As long as results are met 🔄
- Fun - tear at the go-kart track or bowl your colleagues out during the monthly company outing and join the biweekly company lunch 🏎️🍽
- Work together in a close-knit young and international team 👫
- Budget to develop and spent it on courses you want 💡
- NS Business Card 🚆
- Macbook 💻
- Office in Amsterdam and next to Utrecht Central 🏢
Company HQ
De Weteringschans, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Leadership
Matthijs Huiskamp
(CEO)Previously co-founded Brainstorm Group, as well as founding Luvix and MakelaarSucces.
Jordi van der Hek
(Partner)Previously co-founded Re: Software and BrainstormGroup. Was also Technical Director of Digitaal Informatieplatform Podiumkunsten, and was a Software Engineer at Startup Studio Nescio.
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