OpenProject | open source project management software

Senior UI/UX Designer

OpenProject | open source project management software

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Germany

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Collaborate in a product trio (product management - engineering - design) in order to understand users' needs and their use cases.
  • Conduct user research, both exploratory discovery work and usability testing.
  • Translate research insights into clear concepts.
  • Design high-fidelity mockups on Figma.
  • Iterate on ideas based on feedback from users, engineers, product and QA.
  • Work closely with engineers to ensure designs translate well to the realities of implementation.
  • Help maintain and evolve our design system by creating and documenting components and patterns.
  • Update and redesign existing parts of the software in need of improvements.
  • Balance ideal UX with technical constraints, product strategy, and delivery timelines.
  • Contribute ideas that help improve the overall experience of OpenProject.

Requirements

  • Solid UI/UX design experience working on complex digital products.
  • Experience conducting user research and usability testing.
  • Strong skills in developing concepts, design iterations, and high-fidelity mockups in Figma.
  • Experience collaborating closely within a cross-functional product team (engineering, product management, QA, marketing and sales).
  • Experience maintaining or contributing to a design system.
  • The ability to balance ideal UX, technical realities and practical delivery.
  • A pragmatic mindset and the habit of improving things iteratively.
  • A thoughtful, creative, curious, and communicative team player.
  • Experience with open-source projects and familiarity with distributed Git-based version control systems such as GitHub or GitLab are a plus but not required
Benefits
  • Employee benefits such as job bikes and paid child care
  • Flexibility to decide from where you would like to work
  • Contributing to an open source project with high visibility and transparency within the developer world
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
UI/UX designuser researchusability testinghigh-fidelity mockupsdesign iterationsdesign system maintenanceconcept development
Soft Skills
collaborationpragmatic mindsetcreativitycuriositycommunicationteam player