Senior Product Designer

Where are you based? Bucharest, Romania

About the position

As a Senior Product Designer at Showpad, you’ll work closely with other designers, product managers, engineers, support and sales teams to define and deliver experiences across the Showpad suite of products that directly impact thousands of businesses around the world. you are multifaceted and can identify as a service, interaction, motion, and visual designer. You enjoy complex design challenges, concepting and validating ideas with customer research, building prototypes, and iterating to optimise your design solution.

Primary responsibilities

• Deliver UX solutions that measurably improve the core workflows of our target users.
• Design mental models, end-to-end journeys, and user interfaces for Showpad software products.
• Develop storyboards, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that effectively communicate interaction and design intent.
• Produce artefacts and organise workshops and research for both formative and evaluative studies.
• Work closely with product managers and engineers to guide the team towards building the best possible experience for our users
• Promote improved ways of working in the design function at Showpad

About you

You care about all the details of design both on and off the screen and thrive in a collaborative environment that values team over titles.

Proactiveness and drive: You can see a business need or opportunity, a situation to be reconciled, or a question to be asked; and take the initiative to assess necessary next steps that move the ball down the field.

Awareness of Systems: You exhibit systemic thinking about all of our projects — considering how an isolated piece may impact a larger system, or defining a system that can be used by other designers. You consider how your work fits within the whole user experience.

End-to-end: We’re looking for driven designers who can run through the whole UCD process if needed.

Effective Communicator: You are able to effectively and confidently communicate in a clear, collaborative and open-minded manner with both technical and non-technical peers verbally and/or visually.

Collaborative: You demonstrate an ability to build productive working relationships at all levels across the organisation, and have the ability to inspire and facilitate collaboration with others.

Strategic: You demonstrate the ability to think about high-level product vision, understand how to

Requirements

• At least 5+ of experience in a related position, experience designing for mobile and web applications
• Ability to mentor and guide the team
• Ability to articulate design decisions and principles
• Exceptional portfolio featuring examples of shipped product design work
• Demonstratable research and synthesis experience
• Expertise in Figma, Sketch, InVision, and other prototyping tools
• Experience with design systems and collaborating with other designers on the design system
• Effective time and project management skills
• Experience in SAAS or analytics is a plus
• Energy, proactivity, passion, and a healthy sense of humour
• Flexible and able to have sufficient hours of overlap in order to collaborate effectively in a distributed team.
• When applying, please include a PDF or link to an online portfolio. 

At Showpad, we empower others to be at their best. As a business, we provide sales and marketing with the software and support they need to enable their teams, drive more revenue and deliver incredible buying experiences. As an employer, we provide Showpadders with personal development opportunities, motivate them to make a meaningful impact, and always encourage them to bring their authentic selves to work. 

Our culture stems from our values which center on achieving maximum impact and being our authentic selves in all that we do. We make decisions with results in mind, while ensuring we create a workplace environment that fosters global collaboration, diversity and passion. We’re a team of good-natured ass-kickers and have been recognized as a top workplace by Built in Chicago and Inc. Magazine.

Founded in 2011, Showpad is a team of more than 400 people working from our headquarters in Ghent and Chicago or regional offices in London, Munich, San Francisco and Wroclaw.

Our culture is centered on our values: be humble, take ownership, be passionate, be transparent, keep it simple and grow together. Global collaboration is in our DNA and we're committed to immersing ourselves in a truly diverse environment where differences are not only welcomed, but valued.