Product Designer

About komoot

Komoot is an app that lets you find, plan, and share adventures with its easy route planner. Driven by a love for nature and powered by the outdoor community’s recommendations, komoot helps you explore more of the great outdoors—wherever and however you want. And we're good at it. Google and Apple have listed us as one of their Apps of the Year numerous times. Today, with over 35 million users and 300,000 five-star reviews, we are well on our way to becoming the most popular app for finding, planning, and sharing adventures worldwide.

Join our 100% remote team and start your adventure with komoot.

We have an ongoing recruitment process (no deadlines) meaning if this role is online it is still open. In case of a large volume of applications we might take the role down to allow our team sufficient time to review them thoroughly. In case we do not find a right match, we will repost the role again.

About the role

We’re on the lookout for a talented Product Designer to join one of our core product squads. In collaboration with your product counterpart, you’ll play a crucial role in designing the initial interaction points for our users, ensuring a seamless and intuitive experience. Your mission will be to highlight komoot's value to both newcomers and experienced adventurers, demonstrating how we can empower them to explore the outdoors more frequently and with greater confidence.

Your approach will be user-centered at every turn, dedicated to understanding the diverse needs of our community. You'll leverage data and insights to inform your designs and work closely within a cross-functional squad to bring projects to life. At komoot, we thrive on rapid iteration cycles and continuous enhancement of our features, valuing collaboration, open feedback, and effective communication.

Ready for your next adventure?

What you will do

• Own and drive the user experience on one of core product squads.
• You’ll be the go-to designer in a cross-functional squad, working closely with a product manager, developers, copywriters, and the extended design team to provide best-in-class design solutions.
• You’ll oversee the implementation of your work mainly across our web platform. However, our designers support other areas when needed, so iOS and Android experience is also required.
• You’ll iterate on new and existing flows, helping to define A/B tests that look to maximize the impact and value of the squads work.
• You’ll partner with product managers and developers to define problems and goals, map user flows, prototype interactions, and deliver beautiful high fidelity designs.
• Investigate our users' needs through interviews, tests and experiments, using insights and data to inform and validate your design solutions.
• Facilitate squad workshops to ideate and align on concepts, gather feedback or present user insights.
• You’ll work in quick iterations, with a goal to solve problems and bring value to our users quickly, measuring the successes and failures as you go.
• Integrate with the existing design team, working with other designers on improving our design system, working processes and helping us to level up product design at komoot.

Why you will love it

• Your work will contribute to helping millions of people enjoy great outdoor experiences.
• We’ve been a remote-working company since 2017, meaning: We are remote by default, have frameworks and systems in place, and know how to do it well.
• You can work from wherever you want, be it a beach, the mountains, your house, or anywhere else that lies in any time zone between UTC-1 and UTC+3.
• We have your costs covered for your co-working space membership or your work-from-home office setup and the latest devices and equipment to do your best work.
• You’ll become an essential part of our diverse and international team with colleagues based in 20+ countries across Europe.
• 38 paid days off (inclusive public holidays) – you are free to take those days whenever it suits you, including a well-deserved winter holiday break.
• We love seeing people grow. That's why each team member gets €2,000 and 3 additional days to spend on professional development each year. Classes, conferences, books – your choice!

Requirements

You’ll be successful in this role if you

• Have 3+ years of cross-platform product design experience (Web, Android, iOS) building quality digital products, ideally from an in-house environment.
• Worked across the full end-to-end design process from research and early ideation to delivering high-fidelity concepts and delivering these through to implementation alongside developers.
• Have experience conducting research studies to understand users, validate assumptions and gather insights.
• Are skilled in user interface design, understand and can demonstrate the principles of user-centered design in your work.
• Understand design systems and how to utilize them in your workflow along with when and how to extend and improve them.
• Are driven by designing and optimizing excellent user experiences for digital products that users love.
• Are a team player and enjoy working collaboratively in small, tight-knit teams alongside developers and product managers.
• Can communicate your design decisions effectively, telling the story of your process, what you chose to do and more importantly why.
• Want to be part of a high-performing cross-functional team where continuous improvement, collaboration, open feedback, and communication are encouraged.
• Care deeply about the impact of your work. You enjoy solving problems for all kinds of users and take a pragmatic approach to your solutions.

Not sure if you meet all requirements above? Don't sweat it – if you think you're the right person anyway, we'd love to hear from you!

Benefits

Curious about how we work?

• Core Communication time between 10 am - 3 pm (CET). We know people have different lifestyles, which is why we have flexible working hours with core time for synchronous interaction. You can organize your workday in the way that best suits you, your family, and your needs.
• We work on a project basis in cross functional teams to ensure that we collaborate on our goals, move forward smoothly with open lines of communication, and achieve results as a team.
• Every Monday morning, we have a whole-company presentation where you hear about projects across the business, inspire each other, and share great work.
• We connect in person at three whole-company gatherings each year in beautiful locations. You can check out this playlist to find out more about how we stay close while being remote.
• We use tools like Trello, Slack, Miro, Zoom, and Google Workspace on a daily basis to stay connected, collaborate easily, and manage projects.

Dive a little deeper and learn…

• How we feel about Building something better
• More about our team here: Meet the Team
• More about how we work here: How We Work
• More about our recruitment process, salary and FAQs here: FAQs

We support diversity and inclusivity and welcome all prospective applicants. We have an ongoing recruitment process (no deadlines) – if this role is online, it means it’s still open!