Senior Product Designer

About the opportunity

We are looking for a Product Designer to join us in Berlin to redefine what a modern banking experience looks and feels like. 

Join our N26 Experience Design team (NXD) of more than 35 designers and researchers across our offices in Berlin, Barcelona and Vienna!

You will create innovative and desirable experiences by listening and engaging with people, applying design and research methods and strategies to create value, both for users and the business.

Let's build the bank the world loves to use! 

**PLEASE APPLY IN ENGLISH WITH A PORTFOLIO

In this role, you will:

• Own and drive the UX and Product metrics for your team. Take responsibility for the entire design process from initial research, ideation, conceptualization and design, to testing and validation
• Turn user problems detected across all feedback channels into product opportunities Work together with product managers and engineers to oversee the development of a product from problem definition, concepting to launch
• Increase the level of delightfulness. Design mobile and web interfaces that are incredibly simple, elegant, and enjoyable for users
• Increase the level of team maturity. Advocate for and nurture our Design System
• Work with agile processes in close collaboration with product management, engineering, data analytics and other stakeholders
• Mentor and inspire, give and seek feedback in order to continually raise our bar for quality
• Help the organization understand the needs, challenges and wishes of customers today and in the future

What you need to be successful:

Background: 

• 3+ years designing excellent digital products as part of a cross-functional team in an agile ecosystem
• Proven experience and knowledge on implementation and facilitation of the overall design process, using a variety of methodologies like: Google Design Sprint, Opportunity Solution Tree, User Journey Mapping, Jobs-to-be-done, User Story Mapping, etc.
• Experience designing using a Design System
• Proven experience of advocacy for the customer and applying user research insights to your design
• Ability to set up and analyse product experiments, like A/B tests

Skills: 

• You are skilled in most if not all of the following: Conceptual design, user research, wireframing, process mapping, UI prototyping, detailed design, usability testing and implementation
• An understanding of business that is equal to your understanding of product owner needs
• Great understanding of both business needs and tech constraints that is reflected and considered into the design
• Experience with industry standard design and research tools (Adobe CC, Sketch, Figma, InVision, Lookback, User testing etc…)
• Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate your design decisions

Traits:

• Actively help yourself (and others) be successful
• Continuously learn and challenge the status quo
• Think globally, act locally
• Have a strong bias for action
• Give and receive open, direct and timely feedback

What's in it for you:

• Accelerate your career growth by joining one of Germany’s Top Startup Employers, named by LinkedIn three years in a row ?
• Personal development budget, German language classes, fitness memberships, N26 premium bank card, and your choice of a Mac or Windows laptop
• Berlin: 26 vacation days per year, with an additional day for each year of service - up to 30 days
• A high degree of collaboration and autonomy while working with a group of diverse peers, getting things done attitude, and access to cutting edge technologies

Who we are

N26 has reimagined banking for today’s digital world. Technology and design empower everything we do and it’s how we are building the global banking platform the world loves to use. We've eliminated physical branches, paperwork, and hidden fees for an elegant digital experience and supreme savings. Giving people the power to live and bank their way is what gets us out of bed in the morning and inspires the work that we do. N26 has international offices in Berlin, Barcelona, New York and Vienna. With over $670 million raised, and a $3.5 billion valuation, we are one of the most valuable and well-funded FinTechs in Europe.

Sound good? Apply now for this position.

N26 is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.