Job Title
User Experience Architect
Job Description
Would you like to shape the future of Vanderlande? Are you on top of UX trends and like to form a UX vision for our solutions? As a UX Technology Architect, you own and enhance our Design System and drive our (software) development jointly with our UX Community of Practice. You will work together with a team of entrepreneurial business and technology experts to realize the evolving needs of the customers and the company strategy of Vanderlande.
Your department
The Innovation & Enabling Technologies group is part of the Technology organization within Vanderlande and is responsible for the platform architecture of Vanderlande’s product portfolio across all market segments. Your department drives standardization of products and modules. At the same time, it provides the Business Units with the necessary agility to quickly and efficiently create tailored customer solutions out of a set of standardized building blocks.
Your position
You are eager to ensure that the needs of our customers and users are well understood, as you firmly believe that customer- and user insights are crucial for designing and developing the right solutions, products and services. You leverage your background in UX design along with your management skills to guide and support the UX design community in achieving the highest standards of ergonomics, usability, and customer satisfaction. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor UX designers, and champion best practices in user-centered design.
You will steer and facilitate the growth of our UX competence, ensuring that UX principles are integrated into Vanderlande’s solutions and modules to provide an optimal user experience for our customers and users. You will own the UX Roadmap and the UX Design System, empowering our development teams to effectively utilize these standards and guidelines. Collaboration and communication are essential to you, as you will work with the UX community, the Design System team, and product management and development teams to implement our UX vision and standards.

What will you be doing?

• Develop long-term UX strategies that align with the ambitions and goals of the business domains and translate these into roadmaps for the UX designs of the solutions.
• Organize and lead the UX community, processes, governance and tooling to increase the value and impact of UX.Foster a culture in which our corporate strategy (with innovation and customer-at-heart) as well as our values (every day better, we care, team play) thrive.
• Own our Design System from UX perspective, incl. our UX principles and guidelines. Collaborate with solution- and product managers, architects, designers and other stakeholders to ensure adoption of these in our solutions.
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders upon the importance of UX within the organization and drive continuous improvement initiatives using metrics and performance indicators.
• Stay up-to-date with design/industry trends and emerging technologies to keep our UX practices cutting-edge.

What do we ask from you?

The key success factor for this job is your combination of strong teamplay and leadership skills with a deep understanding of our customer’s business and experience in human-centered design (physical and digital).

• You have a Master’s degree in a Design related study (e.g. Industrial, Multimedia) with 10+ years relevant working experience;
• You are a System- and Design Thinker by heart, can deal with uncertainty, provide overview, is curious, flexible and agile;
• You are a communicative team player that can lead the UX community and stakeholders in a technical environment with excellent facilitation and storytelling skills;
• You enjoy working in an international setting and you are willing to travel;
• You have excellent knowledge of the English language (any other language is a plus).
• You know the latest UX design methods and tools.
• Domain knowledge in the Airports, Warehouse and/or Distribution domain is a pre.

What we offer
In this challenging and responsible position, you will have the chance to make a significant contribution to industry-leading projects and be connected to our dedicated people and customers. We offer a position in an informal, international and professional working environment with a lot of scope for personal development. By joining our profitable and growing company you will be able to reach your goals and focus on your future.
This position offers a competitive salary per month (excluding 8% holiday allowance). Through exceeding performance expectations, you even have the possibility to grow outside this scale.

On top of your fixed salary you’ll receive the following secondary benefits:

• 40 vacation days (20 statutory days and a flexible budget worth 20 days).
• Flexible working hours.
• A hybrid workplace (40% working from home and 60% in the office).
• A Health & Wellbeing budget worth €300,- per calendar year.
• Commuting allowance, including full reimbursement of travel by public transport.
• Working from home allowance.
• Collective pension scheme and discount on additional health insurance.
• On-site company health centers with a gym, physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
• Vanderlande Academy and training facilities to boost your skills.
• A variety in Vanderlande Network communities and initiatives.
• And a great company restaurant and coffee bar with barista.

Your application
Are you interested in this position? Then apply now directly on our workday vacancy link with your resume and a short summary about your interest in this role.
PS: Due to process compliance, we cannot process email applications. Kindly use the correct vacancy link to apply for this vacancy.
Diversity & Inclusion
Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

• Develop long-term UX strategies that align with the ambitions and goals of the business domains and translate these into roadmaps for the UX designs of the solutions.
• Organize and lead the UX community, processes, governance and tooling to increase the value and impact of UX.Foster a culture in which our corporate strategy (with innovation and customer-at-heart) as well as our values (every day better, we care, team play) thrive.
• Own our Design System from UX perspective, incl. our UX principles and guidelines. Collaborate with solution- and product managers, architects, designers and other stakeholders to ensure adoption of these in our solutions.
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders upon the importance of UX within the organization and drive continuous improvement initiatives using metrics and performance indicators.
• Stay up-to-date with design/industry trends and emerging technologies to keep our UX practices cutting-edge