Product Designer
Silverfin
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Ghent • 🇧🇪 Belgium
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Conduct user research (qualitative and quantitative) to deeply understand needs and behaviours of our users.
- Problem exploration, ideation, experimentation, and iteration.
- Ownership of usability within product decision-making.
- Drive better product outcomes by ensuring solutions are usable, feasible, and adopted by customers.
- Contribute to consistent, scalable product quality via the shared UI & UX design system.
- Collaborate with a Product Manager and Engineers in a team. Together you form an empowered cross-functional product team.
- The team solves user and business problems by exploring the problem, ideating on solutions, gathering evidence, running experiments, evaluating ideas, delivering, iterating and following through to adoption.
- Helping your team balance product decisions through a trade-off between value, usability, feasibility and viability. As the Product Designer, you are the main responsible for the usability.
- Build a deep understanding of our users and their specific needs through qualitative and quantitative research.
- Be an active participant in the product design team’s continuous effort of consolidating our UI & UX design system.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience, ideally working on complex data rich application(s).
- Familiar with leading and/or contributing to a Design System or reusable component library.
- Has been involved in a variety of projects, ensuring the integrity of design, UI and championing user-centred design principles.
- Strong proficiency in Figma is essential, with advanced usage for design system management highly desirable.
- Following a mature design process to dig deep in finding the core problems and validating them before jumping into UI work.
- Is based in Belgium and can collaborate in-person at our Ghent office, one or two days a week.
- Thrives in a collaborative environment and is excited to work with product manager(s) and engineers.
- Is driven by a desire to understand the users, the problem, the context and the why.
- Can communicate clearly in English, both written and verbally.
- Can recognise assumptions (including their own) and are willing to seek ways to validate them.
- Has strong communication skills and is an empathetic team player, especially when you’re communicating research findings, explaining the rationale behind a design or the challenges you faced.
Benefits
- Be part of something bigger – Join a growing SaaS company that’s now proudly part of Visma, Europe’s leader in mission-critical cloud software.
- A connected team – Take part in regular team activities, retreats, and offsites to keep our culture thriving.
- Grow with us – Take advantage of career development opportunities and a personal training allowance to support your growth.
- Time to recharge – Enjoy our company-wide Wellbeing Days off each month (reviewed annually).
- Fair compensation – Receive a competitive rewards package with benefits tailored to your role.
- Flexibility with connection – We have a hybrid setup, with a minimum of two days a week in the office. However, we understand that life can be unpredictable, so we offer flexibility to accommodate unexpected events. Our offices in Belgium (Ghent), the UK (London – Old Street / Shoreditch), the Netherlands (Gouda), Mont-Saint-Guibert, and Luxembourg provide great spaces to collaborate and connect.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
user researchqualitative researchquantitative researchusabilitydesign system managementUI designUX designproblem explorationiterationexperimentation
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationempathyproblem-solvingcritical thinkingteamworkadaptabilityuser-centered designactive participationtrade-off analysis