About BlaBlaCar
BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel network, connecting over 100 million members across 22 countries looking to carpool or travel by bus. By sharing rides and filling empty seats on the road, our community avoids 1.6 million tons of CO2 emissions every year (as if Paris was free of road traffic for a year!)
We are a global and diverse team of 700+ people with 45+ nationalities, and headquartered in Paris. We’re constantly looking for new ways to leverage technology to create a more affordable, convenient, flexible and sustainable way to travel. And we are always on the lookout for people who care about making a positive impact.
Your Mission
We are looking for an experienced Product Designer to join the Product & Design Team. The role of the Product Design Team is to translate members' needs and business insights into a seamless and memorable end-to-end experience. You will be working on the demand side of our product: designing a best-in-class passenger experience.
When asked what they like about working at BlaBlaCar, our Product Designers mention: “We are involved early in projects”, “We rely a lot on data to make decisions”,“We’re designing a service that is actually changing how millions of people travel”, “We dive into fascinating topics like social interactions, trust mechanisms in different countries, value of comfort, or perception of time”, “We save a lot of time by working with our own design system and have the ability to build high fidelity prototypes”, “We work in a company with a strong design culture that embraces the value of UX”.
Your Responsibilities
- Work closely with a small cross-functional team (product managers, product marketing managers, developers, data analysts, designers, content designers) that has a strong design culture and a passion for simple and detailed solutions.
- Analyze journeys and flows to uncover and define key touch points that will be leveraged for your design solutions.
- Diverge and converge into proposing smart, scalable and consistent end-to-end design solutions backed by strong rationale and KPI oriented, by applying a rigorous design process from overarching story, to architecture, to micro interaction, using design systems as a guiding framework.
- Infuse your reflection with benchmarking market standards and adapt best practices to your solutions.
- Adapt working methods depending on projects ambitions and deadlines
- Create precise design documentation and high fidelity prototypes for sharing your work with both new and informed stakeholders.
- Act as an advocate for our users, and support your squad on the problem definition phase of your projects by leveraging qualitative and quantitative insights.
Your Qualifications
- You have 5 years of hands-on user product design, including designing mobile/web apps/desktop applications.
- You love to envision all potential design solutions, and crash test all possible mechanics, flows, UI, before converging on the strongest hypothesis backed by strong rationale.
- You have excellent communication skills and enjoy sharing and learning from others.
- You are organized, results-driven, and are able to prioritize in a changing environment
- You have worked with research teams before or have experience doing research.
- Fluency in English.
- Nice to have: Previous experience working with Product Marketing and Content affinity.
If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you’d still be a great fit for this role in your application!
Your Future Benefits
- Full remote possible in France
- 1 additional month parental leave 100% paid
- Financial support for home office equipment
- Relocation package and visa support
- Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides
- Employee Stock Ownership plan
- Minimum 25 days holiday per year
- Local meal plan policies (Swile card in France)
- 50% transportation paid in France (Forfait Mobilité Durable)
- Mental health support through Moka.care
Interested in joining the ride? Here’s what your hiring journey will look like
BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.