Senior UI Designer (all genders)

About the Job

Studydrive is Europe s leading student platform! With more than 2 million registered students, we are transforming the education market. For our users, we are an integral part of their daily lives, as they find direct access to their fellow students, helpful learning materials and all the answers to their most important questions about their studies.

At the same time, we offer our corporate customers unique access to the largest pool of young talent in Europe. We are an indispensable partner in recruiting and employer branding of junior staff and are constantly developing new formats for attracting young talents with the most renowned companies in Germany.
We started as a start-up in 2013 and have been part of the successful and international StepStone and Axel Springer Group since 2019.

As Senior UI Designer__ you will become a central and important part of our further success story and the Studydrive team in Berlin-Neuk lln.

These are your tasks

• Help us to become faster, especially in the phases of creation, validation, and refinement
• Rapidly translate wireframes into testable low- and high-fidelity prototypes
• Have full control over our UI and alignment with Human Interface and Material Design guidelines
• Further develop, oversee and maintain our design system in Figma (for mobile and web)
• Collaborate with product managers, researchers, other product designers and engineers throughout the product lifecycle
• Work in an agile product team and help us with your design skills to build the best product possible
• Create an engaging platform with a uniform, intuitive user experience across our website and apps to motivate students to support each other, improve their studies and find job opportunities.

What you are throwing in

• You have gained 2+ years of work experience as a Product Designer, UI Designer, Visual Designer or a similar position
• You have designed UI for both the web and mobile platforms and are an expert in setting up and managing design systems in Figma
• Delivery is second nature to you, you have collaborated with Product Managers and Software Developers on a regular basis
• You are a true UI professional, passionate about product design and always up to date with the latest trends and releases, as well as a strong user focus
• You have in-depth understanding of interaction design, care for usability, and hold experience through product design process & cycles
• You are proficient in using tools for pre-visualization, prototyping and spec creation (e.g. Figma, Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite or similar)
• You are familiar with: Miro, Dovetail, Jira/Confluence and have dabbled in some Wireframing & explorative User Research
• You have good communication and collaboration skills
• You have excellent English, German is a plus

This is what we offer you

• Awaiting you is a full-time employment position with an unlimited contract
• You get 30 vacation days per year
• Flexible working hours and home-office opportunities.
• We ll support your professional growth with a budget for conferences, books, courses, or however you see fit + 4 study-days a year to make time for your self-improvement
• To help you with your expenses, you get a starting budget of 50 a month for a category of your choice: Vouchers, Transportation, Internet or Lunch. Additionally, we offer corporate benefits for a huge range of online shops.
• Don t speak German? Totally fine, as our company language is English. And in case you decide to improve your language skills, we offer free German classes as well
• Want to remember what an office looks like from the inside? You are welcome to work in our unique office in the historic "Alte Post" in Berlin-Neuk lln, where we offer drinks, snacks, cozy sofas, a huge kitchen and a very nice rooftop, perfect for after work BBQs__