Senior UI/UX Designer

About this role

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At OpenProject, we build open-source project management and collaboration software used by organizations around the world. We believe good software does not begin with mockups or code, but with an understanding of people's needs. Our users rely on our product to collaborate in agile product teams delivering software, plan infrastructure projects, organize research programs, and coordinate complex work across multiple teams and projects within enterprises. Our users build rockets, cars, or software using OpenProject and we are proud to empower teams worldwide to achieve great things together.


We are looking for a
Senior UI/UX Designer
to join our user-centric design team and help shape the future of OpenProject.


You will work closely with product managers, engineers, QA and marketing to collaboratively improve our product. Sometimes this will mean working on a completely new feature idea that expands the scope of OpenProject and other times refining an existing interaction that thousands of users already rely on. As a designer, your goal is to
iteratively improve
things with every release.


Your mission
You collaborate in a product trio (product management - engineering - design) in order to understand users' needs and their use cases. We start with the
problem and opportunity
, try to understand it well and move on to the
solution space
. You will guide the process from UI/UX perspective from early discovery to polished implementation. In your daily tasks you will:

• Conduct user research, both exploratory discovery work and usability testing.
• Translate research insights into clear concepts.
• Design high-fidelity mockups on Figma.
• Iterate on ideas...