Confirmed Product Designer, BlaBlaCar
+ Employee Stock ownership plan
Online marketplace for carpooling and bus services
Open for applications
Online marketplace for carpooling and bus services
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Employee Stock ownership plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
BlaBlaCar's mission is to leverage technology to fill empty seats on the road, connecting members looking to carpool or to travel by bus, and making travel more affordable, sociable and convenient.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of user experience design across mobile, web, and desktop applications, with strategic leadership experience
- End-to-end expertise: Ability to simplify complex user journeys into scalable, intuitive, and delightful experiences
- Information Architecture: Mastery in organizing and structuring information for intuitive navigation across diverse markets
- Data-driven design: Expertise in user research, A/B testing, and using data to inform and iterate on design solutions
- Content & Visual Design: Create cohesive, intuitive interfaces while adhering to brand and content guidelines
- Communication & storytelling: Effectively present ideas, influence stakeholders, and incorporate feedback
- Fluent in English
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Product Designer to join the Design team at BlaBlaCar integrated in the Product Direction. You will work for the Platform hub and will contribute in building the best experience for all markets, aligning user needs, business needs and time-to-market delivery by translating high supply complexities and constraints into a seamless experience for our users
- Some projects you'll work on: gamifying profile pages to boost completion, enhancing our in-app messaging with new features, revamping the sign-up and onboarding experiences, introducing advanced profile customization to bring more trust, and launching success badges to drive user engagement
- Reporting to the Lead Product Designer, you will be a key part of the Design Team composed of 14 talented designers. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and work closely with Engineers, PMs, Researchers, Content designers, PMMs and our Design System Manager
- Our product discovery approach is based on the FOCUSED methodology and our design system PIXAR is a key part of our delivery process
- Problem Definition & Data-informed Design: Collaborate with the PM and research teams to define clear user problems, leveraging data and user insights to inform design decisions and continuously improve solutions
- End-to-End Design: Lead the design process from concept to QA, delivering high-fidelity prototypes and leveraging the design system for consistency and efficiency
- Cross-functional Coordination: Act as the bridge between design, product, and engineering teams to ensure seamless collaboration and continuous feedback loops
- Benchmarking & Innovation: Apply market benchmarks and best practices to drive innovation and ensure designs are competitive
- Continuous Improvement: Regularly assess and refine designs based on performance, user feedback, and evolving market trends
Application process
- A 45-min video-call with Amélia De Temmerman, Talent Acquisition Managers to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
- A 45-min video-call with our Lead Product Designer, Nicolas Cassagnes to deepdive into your knowledge and experience in Product Design
- A fully remote exercise to evaluate your craft and your ability to solve problems with simple and smart solutions, followed by a 60-min presentation to key stakeholders and peers
- A 30-min video-call with our Head of Product Design Claire Gautier for a final validation
- Usually, our hiring process lasts on average 20-25 days and offers usually come within 48 hours
Our take
Travelling can be an expensive process, with public transport and petrol costs forming a significant contribution towards this. Many people choose to purchase last-minute bus tickets or travel in carpools to minimize costs and carbon emissions, but these opportunities can be difficult to find and there is no framework to locate them and assess their legitimacy.
BlaBlaCar provides an online marketplace for connecting travelers with carpools and spare seats on buses in order to provide a budget alternative to traditional means of travel. Drivers can sign up to provide a carpool service, and BlaBlaCar verifies the identity and reviews of both carpool drivers and bus companies to ensure that the budget service is fully regulated.
Budget alternatives to traditional public transport and driving routes are nothing new, but BlaBlaCar has taken a unique approach by greatly minimizing costs and encouraging efficiency by providing a regulated framework for carpooling. Furthermore, the company provides last-minute and predetermined bus seats, reducing costs for users whilst preventing buses from travelling wastefully with empty seats. It's this unique business model which helped spring BlaBlaCar into profitability in 2022, and a 2024 debt funding round is being used to acquire other businesses and expand its reach.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Apr 2021
$115m
CONVERTIBLE
Nov 2018
$114m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $564.6m
Company benefits
- Tailor-made remote policy
- A fair & competitive salary package
- Employee Stock Ownership plan
- Holidays: 10 days off in addition to the legal 25 days
- Relocation package and visa sponsorship to welcome you wherever you are currently based
- Parental policy (we are a signatory of the #ParentalAct)
- Trainings & career development programs
- Free carpooling & bus rides wherever whenever
Company HQ
Oberkampf, Paris, France
Leadership
Frédéric Mazzella
(President)Experienced as investor and advisor for various startups in the travel industry. Co-founded BlaBlaCar in 2006 as President.
Nicolas Brusson
(CEO)Experienced as investor for multiple companies such as Deliveroo and Stripe. Board Member of Fondation Pour l'Audition. Co-founded BlaBlaCar as CEO in 2016.
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