Senior Product Designer (Hybrid)

Full Time
Dublin, County Dublin
Posted
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About us:

In the words of Inc. Magazine, “Web Summit is the largest technology conference in the world”. Forbes says Web Summit is “the best tech conference on the planet”, Bloomberg calls it “Davos for geeks”, Politico “the Olympics of tech”, and the Guardian “Glastonbury for geeks”.

Whatever Web Summit is, it wouldn’t be possible without an incredible team of more than 290 employees, including world-class engineers, data scientists, designers, producers, marketers, salespeople and more.

We’ve disrupted an old industry by building incredible software and designing mind-blowing events. We’ve revolutionised how people come together in our world. We started with one event: Web Summit. But now we’re creating category-defining events all over the world, from Asia to North America.

We’re just getting started.

About you:

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer who distils complicated user problems into thoughtful, well-designed solutions aligned with the business’s strategy and goals.

The ideal candidate does their best work in collaboration with product, engineering, data, marketing, and other internal teams.


What you’ll achieve:

  • Our software is at the centre of our best-in-class events, and you’ll play a key role in shaping its evolution.
  • Work with product managers, engineers, data scientists, marketers, and other internal teams to create thoughtful experiences that provide customer value and drive business results
  • Understand and advocate on behalf of our users and customers, equipping yourself with data and research
  • Communicate articulately with team-members, stakeholders, and product leadership
  • Iteratively explore and refine ideas with attention paid to technical feasibility and business value
  • Constantly measure the success and effectiveness of your work
  • Increase the quality of software design at Web Summit through your design work, as well as mentorship and collaboration across the business

Who you are:

  • You simplify complex problems into elegant solutions that cater to user needs and business strategy
  • You work from a clear understanding of the problems you’re solving, hypotheses you’re testing, and user outcomes you’re driving
  • You’re as comfortable talking about KPIs and OKRs as you are about vertical rhythm and typography
  • Your teammates turn to you for advice, mentorship, and guidance
  • You have an appreciation of the entire product development process, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and inform your work with findings from research, data, and feedback from your users and stakeholders
  • Productive independently and in collaboration
  • You embrace experimentation and learning
  • You iterate and learn quickly by experimenting, measuring, and reacting to new information
  • You value diverse perspectives from users and stakeholders
  • You’re focused on outcomes, and constantly look to refine your designs through user feedback, hands-on research, or smart a/b tests

Skills we are looking for:

  • Experience shipping and iterating on well-designed software
  • Experience using tools like Sketch, Invision, Framer.js, Figma, or even HTML/CSS to communicate designs and ideas with your team
  • Proactively seek opportunities to deliver value for users
  • Proficient at working with varying levels of fidelity ranging from user stories, sketches, wireframes, to pixel-perfect mockups
  • Clear, articulate, thoughtful communicator with a talent for building consensus amid ambiguity
  • The ability to address diverse user needs with simple, elegant solutionsInforms their work with diverse perspectives, research, data, and rapid experimentation
  • Attention-to-detail while focusing on shipping
  • Experience designing within an evolving design system
  • Comfortable and productive with modern design workflows
  • Always mentoring and always learning

Perks and Benefits:

  • Hybrid working model benefit open to all employees.
  • Fully subsidised healthcare, dental, employee assistance programme(EAP) and more.
  • A dedicated in house L&D department, with access to workshops, online learning and resources to help you excel in your career development.
  • Company laptop, generous annual leave and flexible working arrangements.
  • Our very own “Tramway team” who drive community and morale boosting events for employees to participate in.
  • Annual company get togethers, company charity days and monthly wellbeing talks.
At Web Summit, we embrace diversity and inclusion. We want talent from all walks of life to help us on our journey to digitise the conference sector. Hiring decisions are made purely on experience, skills and the needs of the business.

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