(Senior) Product Designer

**Your mission**:
As a **(Senior) Product Designer **with GotPhoto you focus on enabling photographers to use technology in order to save time and earn more - simply making them more successful. Collaborating closely with your** product manager **and **engineering team**, you play a key role in improving our shop's thriving for innovation, thereby bolstering our customer's capabilities with attractive new solutions. We want to offer customers the best experience while selecting their favorite photos. With an iterative approach, you'll pinpoint challenges, and devise and execute engaging solutions, propelling end customers' discovery, selection, editing, or buying experience to a higher tier. All while keeping the system simple and the experience of our photographers at a **WOW level**

As a **(Senior) Product Designer** you will support our team in building and shaping a young design department into a larger design organization.

**Your role**:
You are part of the Shop Innovations team owning the following responsibilities of the product development process:

- You identify issues and opportunities in the product by
- Making connections between needs and business opportunities
- Having frequent contact with photographers, end customers and stakeholders
- Utilizing data provided by our data team to get a deeper understanding of users’ needs
- You design and research solutions to real-life problems and opportunities by
- Breaking down complex issues into understandable, viable parts
- Iterating and shaping the experience from testing concepts and prototypes prepared in Figma
- Creating final deliverables in collaboration with the product team
- Supporting the implementation by communicating all specifications with the engineering team
- You have an active role in shaping the structures and processes of a young design department by
- Building positive, collaborative relationships with product management, development, marketing, customer success, sales, and the design team
- Running design thinking workshops and helping to guide, improve, and implement design and feedback processes
- Participating and leading design reviews and sharing your work regularly with other designers and your product team

**Skills we are looking for**:
You are an excellent UX designer with a passion for user interfaces focusing on interaction and product design for digital products as well as user-centric design. You have a structured way of thinking and a hands-on mentality.
- A minimum of 3+ years of experience in product design with a proven track record of success
- You have designed and shipped complex web and mobile-first responsive interfaces across the entire product development cycle
- Strong time management skills and the ability to be self-directed, prioritize and plan
- Solid understanding of typography, color, and spacing and the ability to create state-of-the-art interfaces
- Experienced in building and maintaining design systems and pattern libraries
- Great prototyping skills to communicate designs and solutions to the product and engineering team
- You can participate across all phases of design work: research, concept definition, UX flow execution, wireframing, prototyping, creating production-ready designs and supporting multi-disciplinary teams during implementation
- You have a toolbox of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to gain the most insights from our customers
- Ability to articulate your solutions and the problems they are solving, backing decisions with data-driven insights

**With us, you can look forward to this**:
**The Challenge**
- You can have a great impact on our product and our design team
- The opportunity to work on a very diverse product, that functions as a SaaS product and as a White-label shop at the same time. Not to talk about our expanding opportunities in the market.
- Close communication with our supportive customer community for early feedback
- You can decide using your experience where the product design department is heading and how it will succeed in the future
- We guarantee a steep learning curve, interesting tasks, and a lot of responsibility from day one

**The Culture**
- A culture based on trust and an inspiring atmosphere where ideas are heard and implemented
- A supportive environment that likes to set each other up for success
- Regular employee surveys to measure employee satisfaction and foster continuous improvement
- The occasional get-together via virtual team events (lately also in person)

**The Perks**
- Remote work - You have the freedom to decide whether you want to work from home or from the (dog-friendly) office in Berlin
- Education budget, that allows you to grow professionally and explore new ideas
- Urban Sport Club (Classpass for the US) membership discount, to keep active even in these isolated times
- Unlimited holidays (26 days are the minimum)
- SpendIt Card - With a monthly sum to spend on your groceries or whatever you like

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