UX/UI Designer
You're an experienced UX/UI Designer with a keen eye for detail, ready to challenge yourself and take the next step in your career? You're in the right place! Keep scrolling for more.
What you'll do
- You are the Design Owner in small and sometimes medium sized projects
- You have different roles (Design Owner, support, sparrings partner etc.) in several projects simultaneously
- Independent of your role you are one of the main contact persons for the client’s design or brand related questions and feedback
- You always ensure a high quality and feasibility of the design due to your profound knowledge about various guidelines (e.g. Google’s Material Design Guidelines or Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines)
- You also proactively gather feedback on your work from more experienced collegues in time for deadlines and thus ensure this high quality
- You identify potential for improvement in the daily business of conception and the collaboration of the domains and actively work on implementing those improvements after discussion them with other colleagues
- You own, organise and moderate presentations for important milestones (and sometimes even workshops or creative sessions) within your projects
- In addition to your own tasks you have an overview over the teams tasks and an eye on upcoming milestones and help to meet deadlines
- You actively take part in reaching your circles' OKRs
- You continually educate yourself further (incl. with the help of the education budget) and share your knowledge within COBE
- You are the mentor of newbies of Junior and Beginner levels and support them in their development at COBE
- You support COBE’s economic success by creating effort estimates for design work and by actively supporting the PM in matching the efforts to the capacities
- You take part in pitches and own the brand driven design part depending on the size of the pitch
- You internalised our processes and adhere to them in your efficient work
- You internalised our brand driven design method (UXi) which you base all your design decisions on
What you bring
- You have at least two years of work experience as a UX/UI Designer in an agency or in a company’s corresponding department
- You’re fluent in written and verbal communication in German and English and are able to comprehensively explain your concepts and ideas and other complex issues towards various stakeholders
- You have a compelling and expansive portfolio of work samples from your education, past employment or leisure time
- You have profound experience in the setup and maintenance of design systems for harnessing the reusability of components
- You are proficient in working with current design tools (like Figma or Sketch) and productivity tools (like Jira, Linear, Asana, Confluence) and are eager to learn new tools
- You have experience with prototyping or motion tools (like Flinto, Protopie, After Effects) and are thus able to create animations and transitions to bring your designs to life
- You have a deep understanding of the process of designing digital products augmented through knowledge about various frameworks (User Centered Design, Design Thinking etc.)
Nice to have
- You have a Bachelor’s or even Mater’s degree in a course related to the profession like Interaction Design
- You were the main person resonsible for the design in past projects during your education including the design language, consistency as well as the collaboration within the team
- You have several years practical experience in a digital agency in other fields like project management, research, strategy etc.
- You have experience in managing a project team with the goal to create a brand driven design based on concepts of varying detail
- You have some experience in mentoring less experienced colleagues
- You have worked with various clients and stakeholders in past projects whether it is small companies or large organisations
- You have some experience with embedded/VR/AR projects
What we offer
- You'll work with a passionate and knowledgable team, with whom you can solve even the most complex problems
- You can work from where ever you prefer and we don't have core working hours, as long as you can meet your responsibilities and your client's needs
- If you're remote you'll get a perfectly ergonomic homeoffice equipment or sometimes even a coworking space from us
- Each year you'll get one vacation day extra
- You want to educate yourself? We got you covered with our yearly education budget
- We have very prestigious clients and projects where you can grow, learn and show your expertise
- No we don't have strict hierarchies, every idea and every voice matters!
- And so much more I'm happy to talk about in our coffee date ❤️☕
Next steps
Click "apply now" leave the link to your design portfolio and to your CV (LinkedIn / Xing or classic CV).
Your Holacracy Circle
Our Mindset
We are team players
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Let’s not attach ourselves to our own ideas, but search for the best solution. Staying humble allows us to focus on our team’s success, not on our ego. Let’s make sure that our team can count on us. We have each others’ back and offer each other help proactively. By giving our best to let our teamwork run smoothly, we do not only offer clients the best quality, but we also let our teammates have the best working experience. Let’s ask ourselves: “What can I do today to support others?”
We make an impact
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We carry an entrepreneurial mindset to detect potential for improvement, make suggestions for improvement, and ultimately turn our suggestions into action. We put ideas into practice by being persistent and by overcoming barriers along the way. We support others in their ideas and excite others to support our ideas. Let’s ask ourselves: “What can I do and what do I need to make a positive impact on my team, my company, and on our clients?”
We are authentic and optimistic
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Let’s be grateful for our team, our clients, and our impact on their work and life. We approach clients with humility, appreciation, and excitement. We do not condemn clients, partners, team members, or users, but seek to empathize with them in order to learn. When things go wrong, we stay positive by turning the situation into a lesson for further improvement. Instead of complaining, we make suggestions, instead of hiding flaws behind a shiny facade, we admit mistakes, and use them as a chance to get better and better. Let’s ask ourselves: “How can I have a positive perspective on my work, my team, and myself?”
We communicate clearly
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Let’s communicate our ideas, reasoning, opinions, and decisions in a precise and transparent way to avoid misunderstandings. Let’s talk, design, code, and write in a clear way. Let’s seek to understand first, then to be understood, so we can test our assumptions and see the full picture. We consider that everything is a hypothesis and that we could be wrong. Let’s ask ourselves: “Am I giving and receiving enough information to do a great job and to empower others to do a great job?”
We have a constant beta mindset
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As ever improvable and evolving subjects, we want to learn every day. We challenge ourselves, react to new circumstances innovatively, and are willing to leave our comfort zones. This helps us grow personally and professionally. Let’s make time for reflection and constructive feedback to give ourselves the chance to improve. Let’s not attack each other and let’s not feel attacked by feedback. Instead, we give feedback with respect and receive feedback with gratitude. Let’s share knowledge and experience in order to teach each other in soft and hard skills. Let’s ask ourselves: “How can I help myself, others, and the company to improve?
We are self-managers
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In order to achieve success, each individual has to work as a proactive problem solver. Let’s take full responsibility for accepting, estimating, solving, and communicating our tasks to the team. And, when something goes wrong, we make sure to suggest a solution to problems at an early stage in order to keep things working. To improve our productivity and reliability continuously, let’s ask ourselves: “Am I organized and structured enough to take full care of my accountabilities?”
Our Munich Office
Work above the
rooftops of Munich
Join forces with our designers, strategists, concepters, researchers, writers and project managers, who mastered the art of creating beautiful digital experiences. Above the city of Munich, our COBE Castle is the place where ideas and concepts are passionately crafted into unique brand-driven design. Sounds exciting? Then hit us up.
“I’m looking forward to meeting you for a coffee at our cozy office space.”
Dominik
Chief Happiness Officer
Our Hiring Process
From contact to contract: Here’s how things go down
01
First Contact
As soon as we get your application, we’ll be on it! Since we don’t use automatic replies, please give us a day or two to get back to you to discuss the upcoming steps.
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Coffee Date
We want to see your true colors and show you an honest glimpse behind the curtain. Having a casual cup coffee or a beer with our HR representative is the right occasion for that.
03
The Interview
We’d love to learn more about your passion, goals and skills, and we’ll give you a deep dive into the COBE Culture, Holacracy, and OKRs, our processes and clients. We’ll evaluate your skill fit and are happy to be evaluated by you as well.
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The Challenge
Now’s your time to shine! Show us your problem solving skills and your creativity by tackling our practical challenge. You can prepare for some days and then present your outcome in front of your future COBE colleagues.
05
Negotiations
You passed our tests, congrats! Now, things get serious. We’ll be absolutely transparent with you regarding our organisational compensation model and we’ll meet eye to eye. And if we’re both happy, let’s tie the knot!
Our Osijek Office
Work in the heart of
Osijek Software City
Founded in 2012, COBE delivers successful web and mobile applications for clients all around the world. With headquarters in Munich and an office in Osijek, our team consists of 70+ experts in development and design. Their satisfaction, personal and professional growth is our number one priority - two “Best Employer” awards, given in the annual survey by MojPosao, can support that.
“I’m looking forward to meeting you!"
Dominik
Chief Happiness Officer
Our Hiring Process
From contact to contract: Here’s how things go down
01
Contact
As soon as our inbox shows the incoming application, we’ll be on it! Since we have no automatic reply, please give us a day or two to get back to you. We’ll fill you up on the next steps asap.
02
Application Review
Once we get your application, our HR team will review it together with the team lead of the department you’re applying for. If you have the right skills, proper education, and/or relevant work experience, you’ll proceed to the next round of the selection process, which is getting the assignment. Congrats!
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The Assignment
It’s time to get out the big guns! Meaning, you’ll get an assignment, that will challenge your skills, creativity, and approach to things. This is our way of testing if you have what it takes to join our team. Don’t worry, you will have enough time to solve the task, and we’ll be here for any questions if you have them.
04
Interview
We finally meet! Preferably in person, but if that’s not the case, then online - via Skype, Hangouts, Zoom - whatever you choose. You will sit down with our HR manager and your future team lead, get to know each other, talk benefits, paycheck, work hours – as transparent as possible. You’ll get a deep dive into our process, clients, and how we do things around here. We’ll evaluate your skill fit and are happy to be evaluated by you as well. This is also where we’ll discuss your assignment.
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Job Offer
Congrats, you’re almost there. And by there, we mean at the COBE castle. Obviously, we want you on our team, so let’s talk details – your start date, paid time off, our working remotely policy, final salary. If we’re on the same page regarding everything, we’ll offer you a job, and boom – you’re hired! :)
