🎨Who Are We?
Convelio is a licensed freight forwarding startup evolving at the intersection of Tech, Logistics and the Art World. The startup specialises in the global shipping of high-end goods: paintings, sculptures, basically any valuable or bulky merchandise.
We've developed our own proprietary algorithm to offer competitive real-time shipping quotes and an end-to-end logistics service to the art market. Our mission is to become a tech-driven company in a traditional industry, and therefore make the shipping of bulky and valuable items as easy as possible by providing an online and seamless experience.
We currently serve a wide range of customers from art galleries, antique dealers, auction houses, online platforms to interior designers.
With 200+ colleagues scattered across Paris & London and now New York as well, Convelio has a strong start-up & international culture. We thrive in solving complex logistics issues for our clients, enabling both sellers and buyers in the art market. We are backed by proven technology, prominent VC’s, and boast a global network and the resources (€30 million Series B funding in March 2022) to seize the market opportunity
🚀Your Role
We are looking for a talented Senior Product Designer to join our Product team and work on our Client Experience with a business focus on Retention. You’ll partner with a Product Manager and a Tech lead to create solutions to user problems and generate business value for the company. You’ll get the chance to work with many different teams passionate about delivering the best service to our clients and have the opportunity to shape our Product and Design culture in collaboration with our Head of Design and CPO.
👯♂️What your team will look like
2 co-founders and around 200 people from all over the world to work with you. Among them, 15 people within the Product team Within the Product team, we work in squads and we count 6 Product Managers, 2 Product Designers, 2 Product Builders, 1 Head of Design, 1 CPO, and of course front-end developers and back-end developers.
✏️ You
- You have a track-record of shipping complex B2B digital products - from ideation to launch (don’t forget follow-up post releases! 😉)
- You have a pragmatic approach to design and have been able to create products that scale easily.
- You are user-oriented and leverage quantitative and qualitative data to back up hypotheses and drive design decisions.
- You have either worked with User Researchers or done User Research yourself.
- You have very good communication skills and are willing to advocate for users’ needs and convince your teams and stakeholders to influence prioritisation and strategy.
- You thrive by solving complex problems and collaborating with different team members and stakeholders.
- You understand business context and bring it in your design process to come up with user-centric solutions that drive business value.
🧑🎨Your missions
- Understand, analyse and frame users problems and insights. Make hypotheses and experiments to learn more about our users and their needs.
- Implement a user-centric culture in your squad and be the voice of the users anytime needed, advocate for the best user experience and how it can impact the different business metrics we follow.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to define most valuable solutions to the identified problems. Iterate to deliver the best solution with a test-and-learn approach.
- Build simple and comprehensive interfaces with our Design System and Brand Guidelines. Partner with the design and front-end team to continue to develop the Design System.
- Track the usage of your solutions and follow-up business metrics to continue to learn and adapt the solutions.
🌍What we offer
- Experience flexible work options with our remote-first approach.
- Immerse yourself in the arts & culture capital of (New York City, Paris, London) with our central office location.
- Advance your career by learning new hard or soft skills with access to a yearly learning budget, on us.
- Join a diverse team where support is our ethos and growth is our ambition.
- Develop a strong bedrock of logistics and art market knowledge to leverage in your new role through Convelio’s onboarding program.
- Bond with teams over Convelio-sponsored virtual and physical initiatives: art history courses with accredited professors, remote or physical team building events, off-sites, and after work meet-ups...
- 25 days of paid leave per year, in addition to the 8 national bank holidays
- 3% for your private pension scheme, from Day 1
- Health insurance, starting 3 months from your start date
- Chair, screen and IT equipment provided if you are located outside of the London suburbs and working fully remotely with no access to an office
📑The Recruitment Process
- First call (30 min) with someone from the HR team at Convelio to create a strong alignment on what we expect from you and what you’re looking for, and tell you more on our way to operate
- A 1 hour interview with the Head of Design (and future N+1) to discuss about your past experiences and your future collaboration at Convelio
- A 1h30 remote Product Use Case that you present in front of the Design team to evaluate your hard skills and understand how you reflect on Product specific problems.
- Meet with our CPO
- Meet people from your future Squad in Design and Tech (1h)
☀️ Above all, we are looking for an enthusiastic, ambitious and self-motivated team-mate, ready to take on initiatives and make an impact, and willing to grow with us in order to transform this market - and this might be the single most important skill we require ;)
-> Learn more about Convelio’s plans following our latest fundraising announcement
from our founders.
-> Convelio is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunities based upon race, religion, colour, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identify, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We carefully hire the best talent we can find, which means actively seeking diversity of beliefs, backgrounds, education, and ways of thinking. We are passionate about building an inclusive culture where diversity is celebrated and leveraged to create better design and business decisions.