Job Product Design Lead

Wunder Carpool is seeking a Product Design Lead (m/f) who will drive our design team, push boundaries, influence strategy, and make a strong impact on product execution and quality. We’re intent on raising the bar with smart, delightful solutions that lock-in on user needs and tightly align with company priorities. We also want teammates that are passionate about technology, community, and finding better ways to bring people together.

Wunder is a mobile community for sharing empty seats in cars. By increasing human interaction and decreasing congestion and pollution, we are making our world’s cities more liveable. Our company was founded by sharing economy veterans from Airbnb, is backed by A-list European and Silicon Valley investors and is supported by a team from a dozen different countries and cultures.

As a Product Design Lead, you have both an incredible eye for detail and an ability to think big, break new ground, and innovate. You have experience designing for mobile (native apps and mobile web), desktop web, and email, and you have the technical chops to build prototypes that demonstrate the finer details in transitions, animations, and complex interactions.

You’re also an excellent communicator and a flexible team player that can thrive in a very fast-paced, dynamic working environment. You are comfortable working closely with passionate designers, product managers, and engineers that care deeply about creating beautiful, high-impact experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead, inspire and influence your team of designers to make sure we are continuously shipping high quality.
• Attract, excite and retain the best designing talent for Wunder.
• Create and test design concepts, workflows and prototypes to make sure the conversion rate is optimized.
• Create user stories with a good understanding of the user and the use case. Experience in generating comprehensive information architecture, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes for iOS, Android, web, and email.
• Know how to present your work to the team effectively, and articulately communicate design rationale to stakeholders.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product design lead experience.
• Proven track of managing a design team.
• Background in design (UX/UI design) for various platforms (iOS, Android, mobile web, etc.), with a special focus on mobile app.
• Excellent visual and interaction design skills.
• Experience in design tools: Sketch, Illustrator, etc. ( the tool that we currently use is Sketch)
• Mastery of prototyping tools: Framer, Axure, Origami, etc.
• Experience in working in a fast-paced start-up is a must.

What being part of the Wunder team means

• You will have a positive social impact on the world, as we continue to make road travel smarter and more sustainable.
• You will work in a fast-paced environment with a highly agile team of dynamic, hyper-motivated and talented individuals.
• You will join a global company, with a real international culture and vision; multi-lingual and highly mobile.
• You will enter a high-growth structure which means that you will be constantly challenged and that your responsibilities will grow fast and change regularly.
• Other perks: You will be part of regular office events and teambuilding.
• Beginning: We will help you with your visa application, German admin help (finding an apartment, etc.) and onboarding.
• Share options: Being part of the sharing economy, every employee will have the option to take part in the success of the company.

You will be based in Hamburg and join one of the fastest growing start-ups in Germany. Sounds like a good opportunity? Apply today and start tomorrow, we are looking forward to getting to know you!