UX Designer

At Covalo we're disrupting how products are made in the $3 trillion consumer goods industry.

We're making product development fast and easy so brands in the beauty, home care and food sectors can reduce time to market. By beauty, home care, and food brands we're talking about companies that produce things like granola bars, laundry detergents, and shampoo. By creating one of the world's largest consumer goods supplier databases and the most comprehensive sustainability-related search criteria, our mission is to foster transparency and sustainability in the industry.

Join us to make sustainable consumer goods product development fast and easy and disrupt how brands innovate today.

We're headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, but have offices in Lisbon and Stuttgart (opening soon). Recently we closed our first VC round, so we will grow our team heavily in the coming months. You'll be part of a small, yet growing, hungry, highly motivated, and open-minded team. You'll have the freedom to drive the creation of an innovative new product and bring new ideas to the table, while having the flexibility to work remotely.

Our three core values are transparency, sustainability, and innovation. These values are our moral compass and drive our interactions internally, with clients, partners, but also our product development efforts.

To live up to these values we are looking for passionate, result-driven people able to work autonomously, yet collaboratively, and are willing to go the extra mile to support the team and the achievement of our mission.

Tasks

For our next phase of growth, we are looking to add a talented and motivated UX Designer to join our product team. You will play an integral role in designing, improving, and delivering products in a customer-centric manner that will empower consumer goods brands and suppliers to better connect, collaborate, and transact.

In this position, you will:

• Be a pioneer in the development of an innovative marketplace and SaaS solution for the consumer goods industry
• Be an integral part of our product team to support our product-led growth approach
• Design, plan and execute user interviews to gather insights about the needs, emotions and behaviors of our users
• Deliver a UX roadmap and strategy in alignment with our commercial and product teams
• Create new designs incl. user journeys, process maps, wireframes, and prototypes
• Closely interact with our engineering team to define the product backlog

Requirements

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and values:

• Bachelor's degree in Design (e.g. interaction, graphic, product)
• Experience in designing web applications following a user-centric approach
• Knowledge of visual design principles, charting tools and prototyping techniques
• Ability to prototype using tools such as Figma, Sketch or Adobe XD
• Experience collaborating with product managers, engineers, and commercial functions
• Experience with Storybook (Nice to have)
• Have an entrepreneurial, growth mindset and a hands-on attitude that takes full ownership of work
• Be a team player with high integrity
• A customer focus, and a strong drive for results
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with frequent context changes
• Good relationship skills
• English is mandatory, German or Portuguese is a plus
• If you live within train distance of our offices in Zurich, Lisbon or Stuttgart we consider as a big plus

What about our tech?

Our current platform is developed using Spring Framework, Elasticsearch, Postgresql, React, Typescript, Keycloak, AWS.

Benefits

• Competitive salary & potential opportunity to participate in company stock option plan
• The possibility of working remotely with regular in-person alignment meetings in Stuttgart, Lisbon or Zurich
• Ability to influence and drive an innovative product that will impact the entire consumer goods industry (with thousands of beauty brands and suppliers already using Covalo)
• Be part of a growing, open-minded, motivated, dynamic and fun international team
• Possibility to learn and develop
• Great & cutting edge technological environment
• Flat hierarchy