About Signal Ocean:Signal Ocean is the technology arm of the Signal Group. Our primary product, The Signal Ocean Platform, helps shipping and commodities professionals navigate their complex decision making. Driven by advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence, our technology suite provides tailored, exclusive insights that support our clients in achieving performance and efficiency. By securely handling and combining private and public shipping data flows, and applying advanced analytics, insights are delivered over web and mobile applications, as well as through a rich set of APIs and SDKs. Our backend architecture is abstracted to modularly offer deep analytics capabilities that are leveraged in the solutions that we offer or can be directly embedded in our client’s system topologies.

The role:In this role, you will be responsible for designing new features and/or products that bring great value to the shipping industry. At Signal, we are committed to finding people who are respectful, inclusive, and team players, embodying these values in every role.

Product Discovery

• Follow the business-oriented approach in building new solutions
• Engage in user-centric design by actively seeking user input, analyzing user behavior, and incorporating user feedback into the design process
• Use techniques like prototyping, and user testing to validate design ideas and iterate on solutions
• Analyze user journeys to uncover pain points, bottlenecks, and opportunities to enhance the user experience
• Perform feasibility checks to understand if your approach is possible
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends, innovations, and best practices

Product Design

• Apply design principles to create solutions that address real user needs
• Create user journeys, and explore various mockup variations and prototypes to craft effective design solutions
• Continuously evolve our products' language and improve existing design solutions to make them more intuitive and natural
• Share best practices, establish design workflows, and contribute to the creation of a collaborative and efficient design environment
• Effectively communicate your design decisions and the underlying process to all stakeholders
• Collaborate closely with other designers and product managers to ensure consistency and coherence in design approaches across multiple product features
• Contribute to developing and maintaining design systems, UI kits, and other design resources to ensure consistency and efficiency across products.

Requirements

What you bring to the team:

• More than 5 years of experience designing SaaS B2B products
• Demonstrated expertise in designing intuitive and engaging user interfaces for web & mobile platforms
• Ability to think strategically and consider business objectives, user needs, and technical feasibility when designing products
• Proficiency in creating interactive and polished prototypes for usability testing
• Awareness of the latest Web/Mobile UX/UI trends
• Ability to develop and maintain a design system that promotes consistency and efficiency across multiple projects
• Familiarity with modern design methodologies such as data-driven design, and human-centered design
• Expertise in using Figma for design, prototyping, and collaboration purposes
• Experience in planning, conducting, and analyzing user interviews and usability testing sessions
• Creative approach to problem-solving and the ability to think outside the box
• Ability to keep the end-user in mind throughout the design process, ensuring that the final product meets their needs and expectations
• When asked, type "user centered"

Benefits

What we offer:

• Generous compensation with additional performance incentives.
• Coverage under the company’s collective health insurance plan.
• Opportunity to work alongside experienced people with deep knowledge in software engineering, data science & shipping business who are always eager to mentor.
• Signal’s hybrid remote work policy currently includes 6 working days at premises per month, during which happy hour events take place
• 2-4 weeks of onboarding training to prepare you for your new role, having the opportunity to meet about 30 trainers while diving deep into our products and/or the shipping world.
• Career growth opportunities and a structured development discussion every 4 months.
• Personal learning budget for training, seminars, conferences (750 to 2000 EUR annually depending on seniority).
• Regular team bonding events and activities.

Strict adherence to Confidentiality, Intellectual Property and Non-Compete provisions is expected.

All applications will be considered under the terms and conditions of confidentiality in accordance with the regulations of personal data protection.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. At Signal, we believe that diversity of opinions, approaches and viewpoints is key to our innovation and success and we encourage that with our hiring, development and rewards practices. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristics by law and take actions to eliminate those from our workplace.