Digital Product Designer (UX)

This is a remote position.

We are looking for a curious Digital Product Designer with a Human-Center Design mindset to join us. The ideal candidate is passionate about developing strategies based on insights from real people, has the mastery of their craft to turn these insights into beautifully designed products (i.e. systems design, interactions and visuals) and inspires the team by showing/prototyping what is possible before it is built.

Why you should be excited about this opportunity:

• Transform the experience of sailors across the seven seas
  
• Join us in building the biggest and most versatile database for boats
  
• Help build the tools to empower the sailors & boat-lovers’ community
  
• Get to see your ideas come to life by testing and shipping frequently
  
• Lead design projects to increase activation, retention and engagement
  

What you’ll do at Marine Data Cloud:

• Contribute to overall strategy and decision-making about product direction
  
• Help deliver and refine clear storytelling around product needs and opportunities
  
• Measuring the impact of implemented solutions in the product – using qualitative and quantitative methods
  
• Work cross-functionally with product management, engineering, and quality assurance
  
• Create, collaborate, test & iterate on flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals
  
• Design and ship high quality product improvements
  
• Uncover constantly user needs, taking into account existing insights, technical constraints, business needs to produce data-informed solutions.
  
• Build a world-class framework for an inclusive product design to inspire other companies
  

Some projects you could work on:

• Designing ways for sailors to maintain their boat inventory
  
• Iterate about the best way to save logs for a user
  
• What’s the best way for boat lovers to explore and catalogue boats
  
• Help establish the best practices for task management in the marine life
  
• Empower the marine community with modern high-tech tools
  
• Help create the best practices for a safer and prolonged boat life, leading to peace of mind
  

Requirements

We'd love to hear from you if:

• You love tackling ambiguous problems and shaping them into clear goals
  
• You are an excellent systems thinker
  
• You can leverage prototyping skills to articulate your designs
  
• You are comfortable with leading large projects
  
• You can think beyond your immediate problem and to consider it with the context of a wider ecosystem
  
• You are good at mapping out larger problem spaces to set the context for your work
  
• You have the communication skills to help set up frameworks and brainstorm initial design concepts. Also, instrumental is the ability to speak confidently to your own design work and convince others of your reasoning
  
• You have a people-focused design mentality and have experience working with both qualitative and quantitative research
  
• You have an online portfolio or some of your favorite work in a PDF that you can share with us
  
• You can provide a brief explanation in your application of why you are excellent for this role, while highlighting your portfolio
  
• You are highly proficient in Figma, used as our main collaboration tool for design, documentation & hand-off
  

We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

* A link to your online portfolio or a PDF is required. Applications without a provided portfolio or an online-link are likely to be considered last, if at all.

Benefits

• Good rate of pay: good designers have a higher wage bracket all around the world. We know so and are already making our pay outs in EURO
  
• Team-spirit: we are in constant communication helping each other out and building together, but we also value ownership of work and total responsibility for every last detail, every step of the way, from whiteboard sketching to implementation. We believe that a meaningful career means being in touch with the end-product. But as they say, nothing great is made alone, so come make with us the new digital marine future
  
• Remote Work (Tele-working): as a digital product designer you aren’t limited to a particular region or country as 1’s and 0’s are understood everywhere. We embrace tele-working, utilizing modern tools to stay in sync, working efficiently and effectively
  
• Comfortable Working Environment: central office location, on a well-known business premises building, providing air conditioned office, fast internet and the latest SW tools. If you need anything else, you may help us to create the best working environment
  
• Constant learning curve: you will only get better with passing time as you will be in sync with the technological changes
  
• You can be as creative as you want: Each day you create something from nothing. The only thing that limits you will be your imagination
  
• Professional development: get opportunities for professional development, to master new skills and to grow into other roles
  

The Digital Product Designer will be ideally based at a central office location, although we support tele-working too, collaborating closely with the existing team of software developers and other professionals (Graphics, QA, etc) using the latest software tools (Figma, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, MS 365, etc) to manage Agile development cycles.