Product Designer

TheFork is taking ambitious steps towards becoming a digital product focused organization. This means we need to develop a strong and reputable Product Design & Research organization to ensure a cohesive experience across our channels and touchpoint, for all our customer-types worldwide.

The job of a Product Designer is to envision how people experience our products and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined and even magical. In a Product Designer role, you’ll take on complex tasks and transform them into intuitive, accessible and easy-to-use designs. Ideally, the candidate has worked in a collaborative team environment and has experience of interacting with multinational colleagues. This role demands constant evolution and adaptation as the product, market, and consumer needs evolve.

You will:

• Understand the different approaches to user research and actively stay informed about new techniques and the pros and cons behind them
• Explore different ways to solve design problems and successfully identify the best solution 
• Identify ways to innovate in micro-interactions on digital products and experiences
• Effectively bridge design and engineering through your understanding of front-end development
• Help create user typologies, user journey maps, usability tests, and other user research methodologies
• Work on a range of interaction models and apply it to thinking about user flows through an experience
• Collaborate with Senior/Lead Designers and Product Managers in defining the product strategy
• Help evolve brand style guidelines and design systems 
• Promote the importance of UI copy 
• Apply motion theory and principles in your work, especially in prototyping
• Present your work in an engaging, clear, thoughtful manner

Qualifications:

• Roughly 1 to 4+ years experience working as Product Designer 
• Proficiency with Figma
• Front-end development skills are a plus, but not required
• Communication: you effectively interact with others to build relationships, influence, and facilitate the sharing of ideas and information. You use tact and diplomacy to navigate difficult situations
• Learning Mindset: you continuously seek opportunities to learn, question the applicability of past approaches in the current environment, own growth, and embrace failure as a learning opportunity
• Results-oriented: you have ability and willingness to make continuous improvements. Also the commitment to help make positive leaps in results and overall performance
• Teamwork & Collaboration: you value diverse perspectives and working with others as a way to achieve the best output possible

Benefit:

• Being part of hyper growth digital player with international teams and with a winning company culture (balance long-term perspective with accountability, leverage learning & innovation, increase internal cohesion, build a caring environment)
• Yearly bonus based on performance
• Restricted Stock Units
• Hybrid working environment
• Company Welfare
• Lifestyle benefit 
• Health Coverage
• Meal Vouchers
• Life and long term disability insurance
• Parental leave 30 days 
• Linkedin learning access
• Employee assistance plan & worklife (Optum)
• Viator’s discount
• Hertz gold plus reward membership
• Calm app access

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