Senior Product Designer

About Vimcar

As one of Berlin's most successful SaaS companies, Vimcar is redefining business mobility. By combining live car data and a set of cloud-based applications, we offer real-time insight into vehicle activity to help our customers reduce the operational costs for their fleets.

By serving freelancers, small and medium-sized companies, Vimcar already has connected more than 100,000+ cars and we are incredibly proud to serve the companies who are the backbone of our economy: the electricians, the doctors, the plumbers, the retailers, the construction workers - everyone whose business is on the road.

Headquartered in Berlin, more than 200 employees from 30+ countries are working towards our mission to build Europe's leading fleet tech company. We do not believe in hyper-growth at any cost and burning loads of Venture Capital but in sustainable growth driven by smart people and innovative ideas. If you are not celebrating funding rounds, but value a great customer experience and passionate colleagues: Vimcar might be the right place for you!

Important information regarding COVID-19: the safety of our employees is crucial to us. Therefore, you can expect the application process and the start of your employment with us to be remote until further notice.

Position

Exploring and fulfilling customers' needs is the key to growing a successful business in any area. With our products - Logbook and Fleet, we are building solutions to empower businesses to gather, assess, govern and use data from Vimcar which significantly impacts their business.

However, developing solutions that are intuitive and user-friendly is quite a challenge. This is why we are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our team who will understand users' needs and transform them into fully working products.

In this role, working in our core team, you drive the end-to-end design, development, testing, and implementation process of our team's product experiences. You will collaborate with our core team to understand the main customer problems and translate them into solutions. From creating materials ranging from mock-up prototypes for quick user tests to high-fidelity UX designs that are ready to be built by your product team members. Be prepared to absorb multiple sources of feedback in the process, explore multiple hypotheses and drive the decision-making process to define and de-risk new product experiences.

Your Role

• You will be actively involved in the design processes across the product lifecycle (from product discovery) setting the vision for the user experience including collaboration with stakeholders
• You will be the partner in crime of the Product Managers and Researchers in our product team. While collaborating with the Product Managers, and developers to conduct deep user research you will understand what is needed to make sense of what our users need 
• From the beginning, you will communicate and influence design decisions with your peer Product Designers
• You will give constructive feedback and influence design decisions with your peer Product Designers

Your Profile

• Extensive experience working with UX, UI and User Research as a CX Designer, Product Designer, UX Designer, or similar role where you worked in direct collaboration with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders for the implementation of designs
• Proven track record in leading medium design projects that apply user-centred design methodologies and research to tackle complex product problems
• Proven experience and ability in all different process stages from problem-solving definition to development and implementation
• A proven understanding of how product design impacts business objectives and strategy 
• A healthy portfolio demonstrating a user-centred design approach, problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• You believe that a strong team is driven by a positive culture of collaboration, frequent feedback and respect

What we offer

In this role, you get to work with the most crucial product piece and a product which is our biggest driver

• You will be part of a team in which you can be challenged and be challenged while bouncing off ideas, Including being in a company which is genuinely flexible, with minimal hierarchy, while you get to collaborate with an open-minded leadership team
• Investment in your personal growth and skill development (clear career paths, internal mobility opportunities, mentorships etc)
• You will own your role, with no micromanagement, a supportive team and no high pressure you have the time and space to invest in doing your best work
• A permanent full-time position at a successful and established business with an international team
• Mental health support: Premium access to headspace for day-to-day care, and access to Nilo.health platform if you could use a session with a psychologist
• Truly flexible working: you can work where you choose, from where you feel comfortable or VimTower in Warschauer Straße!
• The choice of a range of Company Benefits, such as an Urban Sports Club membership, Plants club, JobRad, or a BVG ticket grant
• Access to company car sharing - for personal trips
• Regular company events (post-covid)
• 2 months of remote work to work from any country or continent you want!
• Relocation assistance with a great team to support your move to Berlin