UX Designer (m/w/d)

buycycle is hiring a UX Designer to shape critical product experiences, expanding into dozens of sports categories, and defining scalable patterns and systems.

Responsibilities

• Owning critical product experiences—buyer and seller journeys, pre and post-transaction flows, across bikes, bike parts, and expanding sports categories
• Turning complexity into simplicity—making payments, shipping, trust, and protection feel effortless while handling sophisticated marketplace dynamics
• Defining scalable patterns—creating interaction models and design systems that work across multiple sports verticals
• Prototyping and testing ideas—moving between different fidelities to validate decisions quickly
• Collaborating cross-functionally—working closely with PMs, engineers, and customer service to define problems and ship solutions
• Exercising pragmatic judgment—knowing when 'good enough' ships value fast, and when exceptional craft is what the moment demands
• Contributing to design culture—mentoring teammates, pushing for excellence, and sharing knowledge across the team

Requirements

• Experience shipping e-commerce or marketplace products
• Understanding of conversion optimization, user trust, and C2C dynamics
• Designing across surfaces—desktop, mobile and app
• Balancing speed and detail—knowing when to move fast and when to obsess over the last 1%
• Thinking in systems—considering scalability and long-term implications in every decision
• Mastering Figma and design systems
• Understanding data and research—comfortable interpreting quantitative insights and user feedback
• Proven AI experience
• Operating with extreme ownership—solving problems at all costs, stepping into bigger responsibilities without being asked
• Collaborating with humility—taking feedback well, challenging ideas respectfully, and checking ego at the door
• Having taste—knowing what great design looks and feels like, and pushing to get there

Key Skills

• UX design
• E-commerce or marketplace products
• Designing across surfaces—desktop, mobile and app
• Figma
• Design systems
• Data and research
• AI
• Collaboration
• Communication

Benefits

• Tight, high-ownership team with minimal hierarchy and maximum ownership
• Opportunity to work directly with PMs, engineers, and all relevant stakeholders
• Chance to define the patterns and systems that scale across sports