As a lead you will be defining Ontruck's Product Design strategy, not only impacting the products but also the processes (Service Design). You'll be in direct contact with the business and product stakeholders, leading projects and managing priorities. You'll also take over team management responsibilities, managing a small Product Design team, and scaling it to fit the company needs.
As a hands-on Product Designer, you will be working end-to-end on projects from research to interaction and visual design. You will be given problems and you will be expected to find lean, viable, and measurable solutions that align business goals with users' needs. You will make zero assumptions about what users need. You will find out through research. For that purpose, you will work hand in hand with Engineers, Data Analysts, Product Managers, and other Product Designers.
Your profile
- You have strong communication skills, both in English and Spanish.
- This is a Senior position, so we expect you to be fully autonomous in solving problems. You have the expertise to mentor and the willingness to execute yourself.
- You have previous experience managing small teams (1-2 people) including motivating, delegating, and resolving personal conflicts.
- You’ve helped build teams, participated in hiring, and have worked on the career development plan of your team.
- You've built B2B products or services. Start-up and/or logistics experience would be ideal.
- You’re not afraid of tough challenges product-wise and you can effectively collaborate on the technical ones as well.
- You've industry experience in designing solutions to hard problems and you are familiar with the whole product cycle: researching the problem, thinking out of the box, phasing and deciding with engineers, prototyping the solution, testing it with users and working with engineers to fully implement it.
- You've more experience on researching and user experience than in visual design; but you are able to cover the full product cycle.
- You care about the product you're building and the problem you're solving. The quality of the product that we ship is very important to you and you know how to communicate that importance to both external and internal stakeholders.
- You are structured and organised and can communicate well with Product Managers, Designers, Users (external and internal) and Engineers and understand the nuances of communicating with each of the groups.
- You enjoy working in a team and appreciate modern agile techniques. You are polite when reviewing other people's work and take it well when you get feedback on yours.
- You prefer working in a fast-paced start-up, with quick iterations, changes of direction, tight budgets, and chaos over a hierarchical, well-structured corporation with clear and well-defined assignments, and career paths.
About Ontruck
Ontruck is transforming the road transportation industry, €600 billion just in Europe. We make trucking simple, transparent and on-demand.
Ontruck is a B2B logistics platform, connecting companies looking to move freight with our network of carriers. We offer shippers a web platform to make the process of finding the right truck quick and simple with built-in track and trace. Carriers are able to accept shipments through a mobile app, letting them grow and manage their business with ease.
Our team has deep experience in building great products and companies. We know success, we know failure; we have built platforms from scratch, we have dealt with large legacy systems. We care about each other and about the product and services we are building.
Ontruck is backed by some the top investors in Europe.
To learn more, visit www.ontruck.com and our blog nerds.ontruck.com