About the job
With us, you’ll have the opportunity to dive into the world of a high-growth SaaS startup and gain hands-on experience across key areas of early-stage operations.
Your mission
You will play a critical role in shaping the future of our platform, influencing design strategy, and driving innovative solutions that make a tangible impact on climate change.
Key responsibilities:
Design Strategy:
- Design vision: Collaborate with the Product managers and founders to establish a compelling design vision that aligns with the overall product strategy. Advocate for a design-centric culture across the company.
- Design strategy: Develop and document a design strategy for different product domains, ensuring a cohesive and consistent user experience across all modules.
- Design principles: Define and maintain design standards and principles that reflect the company’s mission and product vision.
- Design system: Develop and maintain a design system that ensures a cohesive and scalable user experience across all product modules.
- User experience: Champion user-centric design by deeply understanding customer needs, conducting user research, and translating insights into engaging user experiences.
- Design process: Set and evolve the product design process, including user research, prototyping, wireframing, interaction design, and visual design.
- Product discovery: Partner with product managers to facilitate product discovery, focusing on solving user pain points through design thinking and iterative prototyping.
- Stakeholder collaboration: Work closely with product, engineering, marketing, and customer success teams to ensure alignment on design priorities and facilitate a collaborative design-development process.
- Customer feedback: Incorporate customer feedback into design iterations, collaborating with the product team to refine and enhance the user experience.
- Career development: Mentor and guide designers to grow their skills, offering feedback, setting development goals, and providing opportunities for career progression.
- Recruitment: Lead the hiring process for the design team, ensuring the recruitment of top design talent. Continuously improve onboarding and design team processes.
- Design culture: Foster a culture of innovation, creativity, and design excellence within the product team, encouraging experimentation and risk-taking.
- Experience: 5+ years in a product design role, with at least 1-2 years in a lead capacity in a B2B SaaS environment.
- Design expertise: Strong portfolio demonstrating user-centric design, creative problem-solving, and mastery of design tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch, Adobe Suite).
- Technical understanding: Solid understanding of front-end technologies and how they impact design implementation.
- Team leadership: Proven experience mentoring designers and driving a collaborative, innovative design culture.
- Market insight: Experience working in relevant industries (e.g., Logistics, Manufacturing) or with climate-related products is a big plus.
- Communication: Fluent in English with excellent communication skills; German is a plus.
- A remote-first working environment with the option to work from our Berlin office, access to innovation events, and the German startup ecosystem.
- 27 vacation days per year + National holidays.
- Regular team events and at least 2 offsites per year.
- One-time €500 home office equipment stipend.
- €500 annual learning and development budget.
- MacBook Pro equipment.
- €100 Monthly coworking budget for employees outside of Berlin.
- Participation in Cozero’s Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP).
- A strong company culture focused on growth, collaboration, and fighting climate change.