Product Designer, UX for FactoryPal (m/f/d)

at  Valmet Inc

Your Role in our Team
You want to redefine how entire industries work by leveraging IoT, Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0? Would you like to be part of the success of a digital solution which will revolutionize the manufacturing process to improve shop floor performance? If your answer is a big yes, you should continue reading!
With HQ in Berlin, FactoryPal is a corporate Start-Up – with an additional location in Porto/Portugal. The venture is poised to become the leading end-to-end IoT solution for machine efficiency and equipment effectiveness. The digitally enabled solution is not just completely reshaping how companies produce and elevate their efficiency levels, but it is fundamentally augmenting the way manufacturing employees do their job.
We are data scientists, engineers, designers, IIoT experts, product managers, and manufacturing operations consultants. We are a team, united by our shared ambition: revolutionize manufacturing and transform the way it is done to ensure smooth operations.
Become part of an amazing journey and successfully accompany our customers in their Digital Factory efforts!
What you’ll be doing as Product Designer, UX (m/f/d).
We are looking for an experienced Product Design practitioner who is ready to embark with us into an unchartered territory. For the manufacturing space we define emergent design practices and bring thoughtful design to new user groups who are increasingly adapting digital applications as part of their daily work. As part of our team, you will design holistic user experiences and tackle new complex challenges for global manufacturing companies. Your work will help empower our users to achieve improved production performance and efficiency, leading to potential economic and sustainability gains.

Design our product.

• You are a key part of our design team and responsible for the design of our product through all its lifecycle stages.
• You participate in and facilitate discussions with stakeholders, and you ensure that design topics remain a top priority within key product decisions.

Lead end-to-end design process.

• You explore the problems space to define how to modify and evolve our products to become the best in industry.
• You uncover and solve complex problems for our users through research. You turn insights into useful ideas, and ideas into useable features by focusing on both UX and UI.
• You design the product down to the last pixel and vector.
• You apply and further develop our design system.
• You create low to high fidelity prototypes (with Figma).

Accompany the entire product life cycle.

• You support and collaborate with the developers, product owners and QA experts in the development process to ensure that the quality of implementation meets design requirements.
• You conduct heuristic evaluations and run usability tests to continuously improve the product.

Your profile

You will design for a variety of manufacturing environments, production processes and human-machine interactions. As such, your role entails understanding, resolving, and designing for complex scenarios and making machine data accessible and actionable for our different user groups.

• 2+ years of product design experience (preferably B2B).
• Experience in designing and shipping for web and mobile applications
• Sound experience with Figma and confident in working with Design Systems
• Interest in technical intricacies of B2B solutions and drive to learning about factory production processes
• Intense curiosity about people, an empathetic mindset and willingness to do user research trips and meet the people we design for on factory shop floors
• Proficient in understanding the business perspective of your craft and experience in aligning Product Design with overall understanding of the business, its goals and challenges.
• Ability to independently structure and manage your workload in a dynamic, fast-paced work environment.
• Fluency in English and German is a must

What You Get

• Opportunity to work in a well-funded corporate Start-Up with a competitive advantage derived from market access.
• Exposure to the hottest IT technologies, like AI/ML, Cloud and Industrial IoT
• Challenging role with lots of opportunities to grow fast & steadily - as an expert and as an entrepreneur
• Development opportunity in a group of professionals, who joined from top tier start-up, industry and consulting companies and an education from top tier universities
• Offices in prime working locations and technology hotspots such as Berlin and Porto.
• Hands-On shopfloor experience in the manufacturing environment with travel opportunities - local and global.
• An agile, inspiring, multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary and innovative work environment.
• A competitive salary & benefits package - incl. 30 days vacation and dedicated training budget.

Are you interested?
Join our team and send us your detailed application documents via the “Apply” button.
Please include a portfolio in your application that show real-world projects and demonstrates your user-centered design process and both UX and UI skills.
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• 2+ years of product design experience (preferably B2B).
• Experience in designing and shipping for web and mobile applications
• Sound experience with Figma and confident in working with Design Systems
• Interest in technical intricacies of B2B solutions and drive to learning about factory production processes
• Intense curiosity about people, an empathetic mindset and willingness to do user research trips and meet the people we design for on factory shop floors
• Proficient in understanding the business perspective of your craft and experience in aligning Product Design with overall understanding of the business, its goals and challenges.
• Ability to independently structure and manage your workload in a dynamic, fast-paced work environment.
• Fluency in English and German is a mus