Senior UX Designer

Summary

Join PlantingSpace for a 6-month maternity leave replacement role as a UX designer, starting September 2025. You will contribute to the design of an innovative AI product for technical users, focusing on complex analytical tasks. The role involves working closely with the product team, conducting user research, and improving the user experience. You will assist with product planning, create customer profiles, and maintain visual consistency. This is a hands-on position for someone who enjoys solving complex problems and making a real impact. There's a possibility of extending the contract based on performance and business needs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on UX and interaction design for analytical products related to finance, economics, healthcare, and/or business strategy
• Thorough expertise in conducting UX research, categorising insights across user interviews and synthesising them into a coherent UX direction

Responsibilities

• Assist with product planning by helping to understand and set requirements for upcoming features, designing interfaces and preparing prototypes as needed
• Work closely with the Product team to set direction, create customer profiles and personas, and define a set of common approaches and principles for consistent, clear UX
• Participate in user research to deeply understand and set a direction for how our app can be used in analysis across various domains
• Identify and resolve existing UX issues in the app
• Maintain visual consistency by maintaining the Design System and creating components as needed to support design efforts

Preferred Qualifications

• Basic programming experience and/or an academic background in a quantitative domain is a plus
• A strong collaborator: You communicate with clarity and purpose, ensuring your ideas and intentions are easily understood. You work efficiently, embracing an iterative approach that allows for frequent progress and course correction. You’re open to direct feedback, adapting quickly and using it to improve both your work, and the performance of those around you
• A builder at heart: You’re passionate about building things, solving complex problems, and approaching challenges with an entrepreneurial spirit and humility. Your sharp sense of prioritisation allows you to take one step at a time while not losing the ultimate goal out of sight
• Results-driven: You thrive when taking full ownership of tasks, seeing them through from start to finish, and taking accountability for the results. You’re proactive, resourceful, and avoid over-complication - anticipating problems, even in complex, uncertain environments
• Growth mindset: You are intellectually curious, have a critical mind, and seek opportunities to stretch your abilities. You explore the state-of-the-art, you dig deep to truly understand a problem, and question assumptions
• Methodical problem-solver: You excel at taking a complex goal and breaking it down into manageable components, with clear dependencies
• Methodical problem-solver: You balance independent problem solving with collaborative approaches, knowing when to tackle issues yourself and when to leverage team expertise
• Methodical problem-solver: You facilitate productive problem-solving in the team to drive efficient alignment, and improve proposed solutions
• Methodical problem-solver: You create clear documentation and knowledge-sharing systems that empower the entire team

Benefits

Our team works fully remotely, and mostly within the CET timezone