Senior Product Designer (Design System) - (x/f/m)

⚡ About PowerUs

PowerUs is building the ultimate career platform for skilled blue-collar workers. Our platform helps workers find jobs they love and guides them in their professional journey — from apprenticeship to retirement. In parallel, we assist companies in swiftly hiring skilled workers, particularly in the dynamic field of renewable energy, including solar and wind sectors. Qualified workers are the most important missing link in the energy transition towards renewable energy.

Using the PowerUs platform, workers can enter these new and exciting industries, unlocking opportunities to increase their earnings by up to 50%. Our recent €24 million Series B financing round, backed by investors, like Eurazeo, General Catalyst, Headline, and HV Capital, alongside successful business angels such as Max Viessmann, the founders of Personio, and Mario Götze, we can truly commit to our mission of a more sustainable future.

🙌 Job Mission

We are looking for a Senior Designer to extend, support and maintain our design system practice that ensures coherence and high quality across PowerUs’ B2C and B2B products, as well as marketing touch points.

🎯 What You’ll Do

• Establish and evolve the design of PowerUs’ visual language including typography, color, iconography and components, and the tools, resources and documentations to support the system.
• Continuously conduct end-to-end audits of our UI, visuals and design system, come up with designs to solve for discrepancies and push the visual design system forward, while considering PowerUs’ brand and iOS & Android design guidelines.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure a high standard of implementation – both in terms of process, and output.
• Work with product & marketing designers to ensure our visual language is consistent across product and marketing touchpoints
• Maintain PowerUs’ Figma libraries for desktop and mobile
• Maintain and improve a contribution model to streamline the process of multiple autonomous product teams building components for one-off use cases, moving to systematized items.
• Provide design guidance to teams around using shared patterns, and identify opportunities to create new patterns and components within their workstreams.
• Provide a thinking and implementation framework for accessibility and inclusion in both the design and development process.
• Hold retrospectives & gather input from product design and development teams to improve the design system.
• Clearly articulate both project status, and design rationale for micro decisions and document these in a helpful manner
• Develop plugins for Figma, and other tools that improve design productivity
• Create high fidelity prototypes that can be used for testing and storytelling
• Level up other designers by sharing your knowledge of systems thinking and prototyping/coding skills

🌟 What We’re Looking For

• You have a well crafted portfolio with relevant projects that showcases your skills and experience. For this role, we are specifically interested in someone who has excellent visual design skills
• You have 5 years of proven experience in designing UI in cross-functional teams or agencies, and at least 2 years experience with creating and maintaining design systems
• You have a solid understanding of visual and communication design principles including typography, iconography and grid systems with experience applying this knowledge across various platforms
• You practise evidence-based design, and can rationalise your decisions clearly and credibly
• You enjoy designing, maintaining and implementing design systems with precision from start to finish including the development process
• You can prototype at various fidelities and can communicate in an inspiring and effective manner
• You can work efficiently with common tools such as Figma, Adobe CC, Notion, Webflow etc. and can prototype visual & motion at a higher fidelity, e.g. Adobe After Effects, Lottie / Rive, etc.
• You can effectively collaborate in English, German is a plus

💪 What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package including Employee Stock Options.
• Enjoy the flexibility of working remotely across Germany or from our vibrant office in Berlin.
• 30 days of vacation to ensure you have time to recharge.
• Annual budget for L&D to support your professional growth.
• Mobility flat rate of €50/month for sharing services like cars, scooters, and public transport for employees based in Germany.
• Bright open office with an impressive roof terrace, plus unlimited drinks and snacks to keep you fueled throughout the day.
• Discounts for Urban Sports Club or Gym Pass to keep you active and healthy.
• Join an early-stage, fast-growing startup backed by Tier-1 investors.
• Make a significant impact on company strategy from day one and collaborate directly with the founders.

As an equal opportunity employer, we proudly welcome applications from people of all races, ethnicities, disability statuses, ages, religions, gender identities, and sexual orientations. We encourage you to apply even if you don't think you meet all of the criteria above but are still interested in the role and our mission. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for team members who are genuinely excited to join PowerUs! We look forward to receiving your application!

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