UI/UX Design Lead
Full-time (4 days, 35h/week)
Linz, Austria | Hybrid
Your territory
As the lead of our UI/UX team, you will:
- Hire, lead and develop a team of UI/UX designers and create a strong culture of collaboration within the team
- Support the VP of Product by bringing design thinking to the organization and creating design principles that support the product vision
- Be responsible for the usability and desirability of our digital product, across platforms
- Develop a design system with processes that scale and improve our design language in alignment with Tractive's brand identity
- Have a deep understanding of customer journeys and end-to-end user experiences in our products
- Establish a user research practice to uncover customer needs and ensure that product development teams are solving real problems for our users
- Contribute to identifying trends and innovation opportunities for our digital products across platforms
- Measure user experience and collect qualitative and quantitative data to deliver insights that support product development and strategy
Your profile
Key requirements:
- Several years of experience as a UI/UX designer of digital consumer and mobile products, with experience in leading complex initiatives
- Experience in leading a team of UI/UX designers and researchers
- Highly skilled in user research, design and product discovery techniques
- Proven ability to identify customer problems and pain points to help product development teams solve them in an elegant way
- Experience in developing and maintaining UI/UX design processes that create efficiency and produce high-quality design outcomes
- Experience in working with qualitative and quantitative data to uncover opportunities and measure user experience
- Great communication skills and the ability to lead team sessions and workshops to solve problems collaboratively
- Experience in collaborating with other teams and managing stakeholders
- Very good English skills
Does this sound like you?
- Team player who thrives in a highly collaborative environment
- Able to demonstrate empathy and understand human behavior
- Well-organized leader who can support other designers effectively
- Growth mindset and a curious personality
- Strategic thinker but able to deliver value to customers early and often
- Willing to relocate to Austria to join our international team in our brand new (2022) Tractive campus
Just so you know what to expect: For this position, we offer a competitive overpayment based on qualification and experience. Annual gross salary starts at € 50,000 full-time - at Tractive that means a 4-day work week with a 3-day weekend. If you bring relevant experience in many of the fields of responsibility, the salary will be considerably higher.