UX/UI Designer
You're an experienced UX/UI Designer with a sharp eye for detail, ready to challenge yourself and take the next step in your career? We’d love to meet you!
What you'll do
- Lead the end-to-end design process, collaborating with internal and client teams
- Gather client input, analyze competitors and target groups using various methods
- Facilitate workshops and creative sessions to ensure product quality and alignment
- Define information architecture, user flows, concepts and features for digital products
- Create both low- and high-fidelity wireframes and prototypes to test ideas with users and stakeholders
- Apply our brand-driven UXi method to ensure consistency and brand alignment across all touchpoints
- Deliver dev-ready designs and support smooth handoff to developers throughout implementation cycles
- Build, organize and maintain design systems to ensure consistency, with a strong focus on accessibility
- Collaborate closely with designers, developers and project managers
- Contribute to pitches, estimations, presentations and knowledge-sharing
- Work independently, while also mentoring junior-mid team members
What you bring
- 3+ years of experience as a UX/UI Designer
- Strong portfolio of your work samples
- Deep understanding of UX principles, design patterns and UI best practices for Web, iOS and Android
- High-level knowledge of Figma (components, variables, properties) and experience with other tools such as Adobe CC, Miro
- Experience in the initial concept, ideation and wireframing phases
- Ability to build and maintain design systems for component reusability and accessibility
- Hands-on experience with prototyping and motion tools (e.g. Protopie, After Effects)
- Familiar with Agile workflows and adaptable to different teams and productivity tools (e.g., Jira, Productive)
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain ideas to diverse stakeholders and audiences
- A collaborative, teamwork attitude with a willingness to lead, motivate and mentor others
- Proactive mindset with a passion for delivering high-quality digital products
- Fluent in Croatian and English, both in speech and writing
Nice to have
- Experience working with design and development teams
- Familiarity with agile environments and workflows
- Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and object-oriented programming
- Knowledge of digital accessibility and WCAG guidelines
- Experience with testing digital products and research methods
- Skill in creating illustrations and animations
- Experience working in web builders (e.g. Webflow)
- Experience with video editing tools
- Copywriting or UX writing skills
What we offer
- You'll get to expand your skill set in a wide range of industries while working on diverse and significant projects
- Hybrid work setup - split your time between office and home (or any other location where you do your best work)
- Learning & development perks – each employee gets a budget to buy books, attend online courses, or join local conferences
- Quarterly team building budget – teams get funds for bonding activities like lunches, bowling, or other fun ideas
- Career development talks – we'll monitor your progress and reward it accordingly with promotions and salary increases
- Paid yearly health check-ups
- Wellbeing at COBE – your personal growth is as important as your professional so we provide you with eight free meetings with a licensed psychotherapist
- Seven days a year of sick leave paid in full
- A bonus for new parents
- A Christmas and Easter bonus
- Subvention of Multisport card
- Paid English or German course at a licensed language school
- Monthly meal allowance
- Gift card for your birthday
Next steps
Go ahead, send us your CV and portfolio at posao@cobeisfresh.com. Applications are open until June 30th. We can’t wait to hear from you!
Your Holacracy Circle
Our Mindset
The path to success
01
We are team players
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.
02
We are self-managers
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.
03
We make an impact
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.
04
We are authentic and optimistic
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, for the better.
05
We have a constant beta mindset
We embrace challenges, adapt creatively to new situations, and step out of our comfort zones for personal and professional growth. Let's prioritize self-reflection and constructive feedback to enhance our potential.
06
We communicate clearly
Let’s communicate our ideas, reasoning, opinions, and decisions in a precise and transparent way to avoid misunderstandings. We consider that everything is a hypothesis and that we could be wrong.
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!”
Sara
HR Manager
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.
02
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.
04
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!"
Sara
HR Manager
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!
03
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.
05
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! :)
