Do you like conducting market research looking for growth opportunities for your company? Do you love working within the digital startups ecosystem? Great! We are offering a unique opportunity to do all this and more at Spaceboost.
As an Product and UX Designer at Spaceboost, you will work closely with the rest of the team to know the needs of our customers and with other platforms to figure out what new products they are launching. You can facilitate the decision-making process and roadmap planning together with the Product team, ship the right product development and measure the success of the built solutions. You will also have a direct impact on the long-term vision of our products and take part in building the strategy for their rollout.
Based in Spaceboost’s Barcelona office, the Product Designer will use your design skills to create meaningful and memorable experiences that delight our customers and drive profit to the business. The ideal candidate would be able to use their technical expertise and design know-how to help our team communicate more fluidly and rapidly.
As an Product and UX Designer at Spaceboost, you will:
- Create engaging, easy-to-use native apps design solutions that address business and user needs.
- Leverage research insights (both qualitative and quantitative), trends, and best practices to recommend and influence the product experience. Connect design decisions to desired business goals and outcomes.
- Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product team.
- Participate in user research activities and usability studies to be able to iterate design solutions based on customer data.
- Lead and facilitate brainstorming sessions and workshops with multi-disciplinary teams during early stages of product ideation.
- Embrace collaborative approaches to design. Work closely with product management, user research and engineers throughout design, development and implementation cycles.
- Produce concept models, journey maps, interaction flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes and UI mock-ups.
- Produce pixel-perfect production assets and design specifications and work with engineers to implement design solutions.
- Present your design work to peers and partners with exceptional presentation, communication, and negotiation skills. Be a leader both inside the UX group as well as within a product team.
- Understand our brands, our aesthetic, and our differentiators - become a brand steward in everything you contribute.
- Give and solicit feedback from other designers in order to continually raise our bar for quality.
- Drive UX vision in alignment with product roadmaps.
We're definitely looking for you, if you have:
- 2+ years professional Product / UX design experience as a key member of a UX team participating in the product development lifecycle of several successfully delivered web, mobile and/or software applications.
- Bachelor’s degree in design, related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Solid knowledge of Sketch or Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator.
- Demonstrated experience using analytics data to inform design decisions.
- Demonstrated experience on doing usability testing and design research activities or collaborating with a UX research team.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Strong presentation skills with the ability to speak to and defend your decision making yet be able to have open, direct and respectful conversations to ensure we reach the best possible design solutions as a team.
- Excellent attention to detail; a demonstrated experience of interaction design, typography, color, and page layout.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and Spanish.
- Technical understanding to effectively communicate with engineers.
Our core values are very important to us:
- We are passionate: We are positive and full of energy! We work to continuously delivering the best of ourselves, sharing values, knowledge, and achievements.
- We are intergalactic explorers: We don’t settle. We have no fear. We are always looking forward to making things better!
- We are innovators - our motto: Take risks, lose, learn and repeat! We empower new ways of working. We go beyond learning, implementing every improvement possible.
- We are always here for our users: Our boosters’ happiness is our own happiness. We treat each of our users as one of our own, putting ourselves in their shoes to help them break through their barriers and boost their brands into orbit.
- We have indestructible team spirit: Each one of us is equally important for the team. Our flat hierarchy promotes cooperation, taking advantage of everyone's superpowers. We have a constant feed-forward approach, recognizing every contribution!