About the role
✨ Do you live and breathe product? Help us build the next Gen Z social platform!
baesh is a Gen Z social platform that helps people meet in real life through activities, communities, and shared interests. We’re building the infrastructure for real-world connection in the AI age - a social network that nudges people out of scrolling and into experiences.
As our UX/Product Lead (Core Team), you’ll own the user experience end-to-end. You’re a UX person, not a UI person: research and strategy come first,and lead to thoughtful, well-considered execution, not visual polish for its own sake. You’ll talk to users, turn insights into shipped improvements,and shape a product that can scale from Berlin to the world.
📌 Core team position, equity-based
📌 Massive growth opportunities: you’ll influence product strategy, UX direction,and experimentation from day one
📌 Flexible hours + fully remote
📌 German required (our first market is Berlin)
📌 After fundraising, there’s a path toward a paid leadership role (this is an unpaid core team role for now)
Tasks
Product Ownership & Strategy
- Own the UX/product direction for baesh across onboarding, discovery, event flows, community interactions,and retention loops
- Translate the company vision into a clear product roadmap, prioritized by impact on activation, engagement,and retention (MAU)
- Define success metrics, hypotheses,and experiments
User Research & Validation
- Run regular user interviews and usability tests, especially with Gen Z / young millennials
- Create lightweight research plans and turn them into actionable product decisions
- Build and maintain feedback loops: surveys, in-app prompts, churn reasons,and community-driven insights
UX Design & Interaction Quality
- Design key flows and interaction patterns, with strong attention to detail and delight
- Improve “fun” factors: gamification, spontaneity, social mechanics,and micro-interactions that increase engagement
Cross-Functional Execution
- Work closely with engineering to ship quickly with high UX quality
- Collaborate on AI-assisted workflows
Requirements
Experience & Seniority
- Strong track record in UX/Product Design or Product Management with deep UX ownership (we care more about outcomes than titles)
Proven ability to improve activation/retention through product iteration, not just “pretty screens.
Comfort working in early-stage environments
Skillset
- Excellent UX craft: flows, interaction design, usability,and visual polish
- Strong product thinking:: prioritization, experimentation, metrics,and user behavior
- Ability to run user interviews independently and convert insights into shipped improvements.
Language & Location
- German knowledge required(yyou’ll research and validate with German-speaking users).
- Europe-based only (EU + Eastern Partnership countries), fully remote.
Mindset
- Founder-level ownership:: proactive, fast, direct,and accountable.
- Excited by the mission:: building the infrastructure for real-life connection in the AI age.
Benefits
- Core team role with company shares
- High-impact mission:: tackling loneliness and helping people build real friendships IRL
- Fully remote
- Flexible working hours
- Massive growth benefits
If you’re a product-led UX person who loves talking to users, shipping fast,and building social products that people actually come back to - we’d love to meet you! 🩷
