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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
— Leonardo da Vinci
Join Akur8, a fast-growing Insurtech scale-up revolutionizing insurance pricing and reserving with transparent machine learning. As a Senior Product Designer, you'll shape and develop user-facing elements of our products, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive high-quality design outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate exceptional skills in Design craft, encompassing UX/UI design, user research, and design ops
- Tackle complex design problems by collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop innovative solutions
- Inform your designs with both qualitative and data-driven insights on user needs and pain points
- Uphold a high-quality bar for design deliverables, ensuring they meet user needs and align with business objectives with oversight from relevant stakeholders
- Support the Product Design team in delivering high-quality design solutions, through design critiques and close team collaboration
- Contribute to the evolution of our design system, ensuring it adheres to industry best practices while embodying our brand's distinct identity
- Manage stakeholders effectively, communicating design decisions, and evangelizing the value of design throughout the organization
- Be an integral member of a team of Designers driven by a passion for learning and growth
- Be autonomous and responsible for your time and deliverables
Requirements
- 5+ years proven B2B / SaaS Product Design experience
- Expertise in UX/UI design principles, with a strong portfolio showcasing your design work
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience working in iterative design cycles
- Aptitude for addressing intricate design challenges and steering the development of innovative solutions
- Experience with design systems (creating, using, and maintaining)
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with a demonstrated ability to manage stakeholders effectively and influence decision-making processes
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to tackle complex design challenges
- Take a strategic view to everything you do - your work stands the test of time
- Passionate about craftsmanship and the impact of design
- Ability to mentor and motivate a team towards achieving design excellence
- Based in Paris OR be willing to relocate (relocation assistance possible)
- Fluent level of spoken English
Key Skills
- Technical aptitude
- Motivational skills
- Agile methodologies
- Communication skills
- UX design
- Design craft
- User research
- Design ops
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams
- Design systems
- Prototyping
- Data-driven insights
- High-quality design deliverables
- Stakeholder management
- Design critiques
- Design system evolution
- Industry best practices
- Brand identity
- Strategic view
- Problem-solving
- Craftsmanship
- Design excellence
- Mentoring
- Motivation
- Autonomy
- Time management
- Deliverables responsibility
Benefits
- Competitive salary + annual bonus
- Hybrid office / home office policy
- 25 days of paid holidays + RTT
- Gym membership with Gymlib + corporate sporting activities
- Excellent health insurance (including possibility of family coverage)
- Swile lunch vouchers
- Public transportation reimbursement + sustainable mobility allowance
- Relocation support
- Sponsored crèche access
- Free cafeteria with fresh fruit, drinks and snacks
- Great office in the heart of the 9th arrondissement of Paris
About Akur8
Akur8 is a young, dynamic, fast-growing Insurtech startup that is transforming insurance pricing and reserving with transparent machine learning. Our SaaS platform leverages the power of transparent machine learning and predictive analytics to inject game-changing speed, performance, and reliability into insurers’ pricing and reserving processes.
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