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As a Staff UX Designer at Smallpdf, you will be part of the UX design and research team. Your mission is to understand our customers, drive the value proposition and design solutions that help them achieve their goals, and ultimately grow our business. You will work in cross-functional product teams, together with PMs, engineers, and other experts to shape the user experience across the Smallpdf products for 40+ million users from all over the world.
Who are we?
The last thing anyone living abroad needs is to figure out how to receive their post from home, right? Well, that’s the exact problem that inspired our founders in 2013 to create an online tool to turn huge PDFs into tiny, email-friendly ones. And it turned out that they weren’t the only ones with this problem; millions of people started using their tool to compress PDFs and that was the explosive start of Smallpdf as we know it today.
Today, we’re a team of over 130 people and 34 nationalities, with offices in Zurich, Belgrade, and Barcelona. We’re proud to have made PDFs—and life—just a little bit easier for over a billion customers in 24 languages with over 20 PDF tools across our web, mobile, and desktop applications.
The team:
At Smallpdf, we work in pods, which are autonomous and cross-functional teams within the company.
You would be working in the Mobile Experience pod. Our goal is to create an app with outstanding User Experience serving the right Value Proposition for our valuable customers.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
Driving Product Discovery and building the Value Proposition to drive in your pod on what is most important and impactful to work on
Shaping and driving User Experience in the field of your responsibility.
Dig into user insights and data to drive design decisions.
Create sketches and wireframes, user flows, customer journeys, and lo-fi interactive prototypes to test ideas and concepts.
Drive decision making with the user’s point-of-view while understanding how to drive company value
Design smooth user interactions that enable our customers to achieve their objectives in the best possible way.
Design reusable UI components and contribute to scale and maintain our design system.
Conduct user research and usability testing with the help of our research department when needed.
Translate quantitative and qualitative insights into design ideas and concepts.
Strong collaboration with team and stakeholders
TLDR: Design simple, elegant and smooth user experiences that help our users and customers achieve their goals, with WOW moments :)
Requirements
Your profile:
7+ years of in-house experience in the digital product environment, working on UX of consumer-facing products, ideally in the SaaS sector
Experience with Mobile design (IOS & Android)
Bachelors, Masters or PhD in the field of Design, HCI, Computer Science, Product Design, or other field emphasising design, creativity and human behaviour.
A solid and compelling digital portfolio showing working examples of well-executed UX processes and designs that display a thorough understanding of UX, interaction design and interface design principles
Strong exposure to all aspects of the UX spectrum - discovery and exploration, defining and executing user research, information architecture, user testing, A/B testing, design system.
Keen in understanding the real user problems (have a user mindset, create customer journeys and user flows, identify use cases and edge cases).
A solid design process and workflow, with excellent sketching, wire-framing and rapid prototyping skills.
An holistic and customer centric mindset, with a strong focus on the end-to-end customer experience. You have the big picture in mind, you design scalable long-term solutions, as well as short-term improvements that bring value to both our customers and the business.
A solid understanding and ability to use data and qualitative insights to inform your design decisions.
A strong user empathy and understanding of human psychology, emotional and persuasive design and usability principles.
Hands-on experience with Figma or similar design tools.
Team player with experience working across teams and professionals at any level.
Sense of ownership in your performance and its impact on the company’s success.
Excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
Excellent time-management skills.
Able to thrive in a fast-paced setting.
Excellent English, both verbal and written. Any other language is a plus!
Based in Barcelona or willing to relocate;
EU-Citizen or a valid work permit to work in Spain.
Benefits
Salary Range: 80,000-115,000 EUR
Why Smallpdf?
🌍 You get to impact the way over 40 million people get work done every month.
🚀 Push boundaries and dare to fail—that’s how we learn!
👨💻 Enjoy hybrid work environment, you can work both from home and in the office, but there is a minimum of 4 days per quarter when you are expected to meet up with your team, work together in synergy and strengthen your team bond. 😉
🏥 Private health insurance cover on us—one less thing to worry about
🏝️ Unlimited vacation days—yep, you read that right—plus year-end company holidays.
🧳 Need a long break? We offer sabbatical leave to employees who’ve been with us for over 2 years.
👶 16 weeks parental leave—100% of your salary—for all new parents
🐶 Don’t leave your four-legged friends at home, our offices are pet-friendly
📚 A personal development budget of up to 1,850 EUR every year, plus 8 days off for courses or training.
🥧 Possibility of an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). (Conditions apply.)
👩💻 Hack days to challenge you and your team, plus build amazing things.
🍻 Chatting over tapas, grabbing a glass of wine, enjoying the many museums, or going for a dip in the sea—we’re pretty serious about having fun!
Said to be even older than Rome, Barcelona is the city that has it all, from sandy beaches to beautiful historical architecture to exciting nightlife. If you like to be surrounded by a vibrant atmosphere full of culture and art, sunny skies, and people from all over the world, Barcelona is the place for you—and so is Smallpdf.
Smallpdf is an equal opportunity employer. We believe a talented, diverse, and inclusive workforce is our greatest strength. We strongly oppose any form of hiring or workplace discrimination against candidates or employees on any basis, including race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, philosophy, nationality, disability, or genetic information. We’re committed to fostering a safe, supportive environment where everyone can come to work as their full selves and reach their greatest potential.
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Additional information
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Date posted5 August 2022
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SectorInformation Technology
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Employment typeFull-time
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Relocation packageYes