Job Description
A well-seasoned and all-rounder product designer with proven expertise in user research, UX design and UI design, combined with experience working in cross-functional teams.
Your mission:
- Drive the product discovery research activities on a continuous basis
- Define customer personas, prepare customer journey maps, continuously refine them based on customer interactions, identify and understand opportunities (unmet user needs, pains and gains) that target specific product outcomes, in addition to visualising and structuring the opportunity space (in collaboration with the UX Researcher wherever required)
- Explore multiple solutions to target opportunities, compare and contrast those solutions together with your cross-functional team members, identify hidden assumptions of desirability, usability, feasibility and viability, test the most critical of those assumptions, and iteratively discover the best solution
- Prepare story maps for proposed solutions, by defining high-level activities, individual steps, and finer interaction details for target users
- Prepare low-fidelity prototypes based on your story maps, conduct user tests (in collaboration with the UX Researcher wherever required) and iteratively improve the solution prototypes
- Manage the design system, continuously improve it to match the evolving needs of the users of the design system, and put in place governance around its management
- Prepare high-fidelity prototypes, perform hand-offs to engineering team members, provide any design support required during the development process, and perform a Design QA at the end of the delivery process
- Track the success of delivered solutions by means of behavioural and attitudinal UX metrics
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and new design techniques
Your profile:
- At least 5 years of experience in end-to-end product design preferably in the B2B space
- Deep expertise in design tools, processes and methodologies
- Experience working in cross-functional teams
- Excellent communication skills (both oral, written and visual) in English
Nice to have:
- B2-level German skills or higher
- Strong analytical mindset and the ability to slide-and-dice product analytics data
- Experience with agile methodologies such as Kanban and Scrum
- Experience working in high-growth startup environments
Why us?
TALPA is a value-driven organization, and we are excited about what we do. Trustworthiness, Accuracy, Leadership, Passion, and Accountability- these are our values. If they are your guiding compass, you will fit right in! Weโre flexible, honest, hardworking, and collaborative. As a team, we bring our diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and experiences together. We support and challenge one another to bring out the best in each of us, and we might even have a little fun along the way. We care about you. Here is a glimpse of what makes life at talpasolutions special:
- Our culture is diverse and inclusive. We are one team with many voices.
- Agile performance: You actively participate in setting your challenges and goals via objectives and key results. Your lead continuously provides feedback and coaches you in dedicated sessions.
- Continuous learning is key to our success. We want you to grow and offer training, hackathons and conferences.
- โฌ1200 training budget for training courses of your choice, such as conferences (national or abroad), online learning platforms, etc.
- We believe in trust. You know how you operate at your best. Free choice of hardware and operating system and flexible working hours are some ways how we will support you.
- We want your life to be hassle-free. Thatโs why you will find free food & drinks in our kitchen.
- We have a fully-equipped in-house gym on the office premises available 24/7.
- Bring your whole self to work and find a community. Whatever your passion, you will likely find like-minded people at talpasolutions.
- It is as a team that we operate at our best. We offer regular happiness activities that bring all of us together.
- We are a diverse team and want to grow as such. If you are looking to relocate to Germany to join us, we are happy to share our knowledge and help you through the relocation process.
