Lead Product Designer (Zürich)

About Oper

At Oper, we believe that getting a mortgage should take just a few clicks, from the comfort of your own home. Our team is working with lenders and brokers to redesign their mortgage processes to make this dream a reality.

We offer lenders and brokers an out-of-the-box, white-labeled SaaS product that supports self-service mortgage applications, collaboration tools, digital signatures, integrations with relevant data sources, and more. Our early traction has attracted top industry investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Swiss Immo Lab, Verve Ventures, and Pitchdrive, and earned us recognition with top fintech accelerators: Barclays Techstars, Plug and Play, and F10 Fintech Accelerator.

We have offices in Z rich and Brussels. To support our current growth in Europe, we are looking for a Lead Product Designer.

Tasks

As a Lead Product Designer, you're responsible for:

• Leading a strong team of designers, and guiding them in their professional development
• Guaranteeing that Oper is consistent in terms of UX and UI, no matter the product or designer, in particular through our Design System
• Ensuring optimal user experience, through user research & user testing, via interviews, Maze, and other techniques & platforms
• Collaborating with the management in setting the design vision, strategy, workflow and team structure, to offer an amazing experience to our users
• Taking initiative where you see the need and challenging our way of thinking

You will also directly contribute to the Product:

• Working closely on solutions with the product managers and engineers, from discovery to delivery
• Designing simple, effective, and attractive solutions to complex challenges, in order to help execute the product vision and company strategy
• Communicating designs to engineers, and helping them turn it into a reality

Requirements

• 7+ years experience in a product, design or UX team, working on a (Enterprise) SaaS product, preferably in a Pre-Series B startup
• Excellent portfolio with examples of mobile & desktop design experiences
• Empathetic, strong facilitation and collaboration abilities, a flexible and friendly approach to working with teams, and the attitude to always strive for the best outcomes
• Excellent communicator of design work and the rationale behind it
• Systems thinker; you design scalable systems, not just screens
• Advanced experience with design and prototyping tools such as Figma & Framer
• Familiar with Design Systems and concepts such as Atomic Design & Design Tokens
• Ability to quickly master technical skills in a fast-paced startup environment

Benefits

What do we offer

We are a young and fast-growing company with a strong ambition to change an old and slow-changing industry.

To achieve this, we re building a stellar team in which you will be challenged tremendously.

You will work with a high level of autonomy. On top of having the freedom to creatively make an impact, you ll be surrounded by an open team that is motivated to support you along the way.

We like to have a laugh, play games & do sports together. With 15 nationalities and 13 different mother tongues, you ll be exposed to a close-knit diverse set of minds.

Our hybrid remote setup with offices in Brussels and Z rich provides us with the flexibility coming together when we want to, while catering to every individual lifestyle by allowing remote work.

Our financial offer will be based on the market standards for early employees in a young (Fin)Tech Company (Michael Page / Glassdoor benchmarked) and will include extralegal benefits based on the legal framework of your location.