Product Designer – Enterprise Scale

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About the role

As a Product Designer, you will work with a cross-functional team to discover, define and deliver solutions that help our largest enterprise customers manage their Contentful implementation at scale. 

If you have a passion for problem solving, systems design and optimizing workflows this role may be a good fit. You should understand the role of product analytics in design, and know how to make evidence-based tradeoffs. You should be comfortable facilitating user testing sessions and team workshops, and have experience working with design systems.    You’ll join a design guild of passionate design generalists who enjoy continuous learning, and the opportunity to impact the product and the organization in a meaningful way.

What to expect?

You’ll be a key player in your cross-functional product development team during discovery, solutioning, and delivery. 

Discovery

  • Partner with a product manager in identifying and defining the right problems to solve
  • Partner with UX researchers and data analysts to learn about the reach in the market and the most important features we need to understand in depth in discovery.
  • Facilitate team workshops

Design 

  • Take the user’s perspective and explore solutions from multiple directions
  • Prototype creation (from low to high fidelity)
  • Work with the research team to plan and conduct user testing
  • Support team with concepts, visual design and UX copy
  • Specify implementation details

Delivery

  • Improve UX / design quality by pairing with engineers, data analysts and other designers
  • Run experiments and user testing during early release phases

What you need to be successful 

  • Self starter, looking for pragmatic solutions
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguities
  • Organized
  • Strong conceptual skills to design for complex scenarios
  • Analytical approach to design
  • Strong communicator and user advocate
  • Comfortable communicating with company leadership
  • Experience working with design systems and strong knowledge of interaction patterns 
  • Experience with user research (quantitative and qualitative) and user testing
  • Experience with meeting and workshop facilitation

 What's in it for you?

  • Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital products. 
  • We set you up for success, equipping you with the latest and greatest hardware
  • Enjoy a full range of events, including workshops, Contentful-hosted meetups, guest speakers and team activities. Meet your team members from across the globe at our annual offsite. 
  • Get fit! We offer a variety of health and fitness classes and a discount on Urban Sports Club.
  • We value our employees health and safety. Our teams are working remotely during the COVID pandemic. 
  • Use your personal education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career. Join a free German class or one of our many internal learning initiatives!
  • Plus, Contentful socks! Oh yeah!

Who are we?

Contentful powers digital experiences for 28% of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of global brands. Our content platform unifies content in a single hub, structures it for use in any digital channel and integrates seamlessly with hundreds of tools through open APIs. It lets developers and content creators work in parallel, increasing team efficiency and happiness. Companies such as Spotify, Urban Outfitters, Jack in the Box, The British Museum, Xoom and Lenovo use Contentful to build their mobile and web products, voice controlled apps and more.

We’re growing rapidly and are backed by over $150 million in funding from top-tier venture capital firms like Sapphire Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, General Catalyst and Benchmark.

More than 350 people from 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful, working from hubs in Berlin and San Francisco and distributed around the world.

“Variety is the spice of life” — and a celebrated component of our culture. At Contentful, we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer: all qualified applicants are considered for positions regardless of race, ethnic origin, gender, age, religion or belief, marital status, gender identification, sexual orientation, or disability. We look forward to your application!

All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability or length of time spent unemployed.