Senior Product Designer, traide
B2B SaaS Startup
AI automation for industrial trade
Posted today
AI automation for industrial trade
21-100 employees
Posted today
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make trade compliance effortless and scalable through AI - empowering teams across industries to trade with confidence, clarity, and control.
Role
Who you are
- Craft is the baseline here, not a nice-to-have. What sets you apart is range and judgment: you know what good looks like, you know when something looks right but feels wrong, and you can get a team there with you
- Fluency in English (C1+) is required. German (C1) is a plus, but not a must-have
- Genuine design craft with a track record: you've shipped interfaces real users navigated without explanation, and you can point to the metric that moved
- Strong visual sensibility, high standards, and an eye for detail
- Range across Design, Product, and Engineering: you've gone from user problem to testable prototype without waiting for a brief, and used AI coding tools to build something real. You're not dependent on an engineer to realize your vision
- You've built personal AI workflows that make you meaningfully faster, and you know when to trust, edit, or reject AI output
- Comfortable in ambiguity: you ship, collect signal, and iterate rather than waiting for full clarity
- You are excited to show your work (portfolio or examples)
- Ideally you've worked on products where getting it wrong has real consequences (fintech, healthtech, logistics, compliance), but that's not a must-have
- Berlin-based or willing to relocate
What the job involves
- Own the full loop. Take a user problem from rough idea to shipped interface: partner or write the brief, design the flow, prototype it, partner with engineering, ship it with as few handoffs as possible
- Use AI as a force multiplier. Explore and prototype with AI tools, Figma, or code, whatever gets there fastest. Your taste is the editorial layer: you know when AI-generated UI is wrong even when it looks right, and you fix it
- Solve from first principles. Reason about the right interaction for the user problem instead of reaching for a component library
- Sweat the final 10%. Craft the details others miss, the ones that make a compliance product feel trustworthy
- Work in small, focused pods. No layers, no waiting. You'll work closely with two or three others who share the same model
- Be accountable to outcomes. Know the metric your team is moving. Measure your week by what changed for users, not by screens delivered
- Stretch beyond design. Read the API spec, engage users directly, build in code when it's faster than Figma
Application process
- First Call — Intro on what we do with Max (Hiring manager)
- Second Call — Portfolio walkthrough with Sebastian (Designer)
- Third Call — Get to know our product and culture with our Product team (group call)
- On-site Day — Meet our team in our Berlin office and work on a real problem together with us
- (Potentially) quick ,,vibe check'' call- with founder (Leonie or Hendrik)
Our take
Navigating customs processes can be a cumbersome challenge for businesses, often involving manual efforts and potential compliance pitfalls. With traditional methods being both time-consuming and prone to errors, traide is stepping into the arena to streamline and automate customs procedures for companies of all sizes and industries.
traide's SaaS platform employs advanced AI models to interpret and translate individual product information into the necessary customs data. This approach not only ensures accuracy but also automates what has traditionally been a manual process. By offering this cloud-based, AI-driven tool, traide allows companies to create secure and automated customs declarations, providing a more efficient and reliable alternative to conventional methods.
The infusion of recent capital earmarks the company for further development and scaling of its solution. With a solid foundation in place, traide is now poised to shape the future of customs processes by reaching a broader market and expanding its capabilities at the intersection of AI, cloud technology, and international trade facilitation.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2023
$1.2m
SEED
Total funding: $1.2m
Company HQ
Kollwitzkiez, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Leonie Althaus
(Co-Founder & CEO)Currently serving as the Strategic Partnership Development Manager at Girls in Tech. Prior to this they co-founded Mellon Services where they served as the COO.
Hendrik Niemann
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously founded Leasy. They also taught as a Freelance Lecturer at CODE University of Applied Sciences. Prior to this, they were a Software Engineer and then Head of Learning Analytics at Kiron Open Higher Education.
Philipp Friebertshäuser
(Co-Founder & Managing Director)Previously co-founded Markov Solutions where they served as the Managing Director. They also worked as an AI Software Engineer at Charité.
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