Senior Product Designer

Speak our language!
We are Lingoda. Our mission is to build bridges around the world through language learning.
Lingoda is a fast-growing online language school enabling even the busiest people worldwide to learn a language. We offer flexible, high-quality live classes, available online 24/7.
In December 2022, we won “Best Digital Learning Product of the Year” at the Digital Education Awards 2022.
We challenge ourselves for a better society, working smart to make it happen. How? Here are 2 examples:
Our brand MATCH Talent is the Global Career Centre for international talent in Germany, supporting migrants through government-funded education programs.
In the German health sector, we support international nurses, doctors and midwives in obtaining their language and professional recognition through state-sponsored education programmes. As a result, we have become one of the largest recognised educational providers in this field in Germany.
We bring together the best of people in a positive company culture, enabling personal growth and inclusion.
Our employees have unlimited access to our private and group language classes!
We are currently looking for a SeniorProduct Designer  (all genders) based in Berlin (hybrid)
Your mission with us:
As a Senior Product Designer, you will be responsible for designing engaging and successful student experiences. This role will report to the Head of Design and User Research and is pivotal for Lingoda as we scale our people, business and products.
You will work in our cross-functional Pod, partnering with the Product Manager, engineers, and QA and be supported by our User Research and Product Analytics teams.

Your tasks:

• Work closely with Product Management, User Experience Research, Digital Education, and Engineering to align design strategies with business goals and technical capabilities
• Transform ideas into successful intuitive designs. Your role: infuse user experience in every detail, from concept to final design, shaping the product's future with clarity and creativity
• Ensures aesthetic, layout, composition, and information architecture align with the overall Lingoda ecosystem
• Contribute to the enhancement of design processes within the organisation to optimise efficiency and quality
• Use data and metrics (such as conversion rate, user retention and engagement metrics) to inform design decisions and measure the impact of design changes
• Contribute to user stories and ensure that our engineering team has the appropriate designs, assets and guidelines to be able to successfully develop the designs
• Support the creation of experiments, like A/B tests or multivariate tests, to optimise our product
• Identify new user needs and generate innovative ideas
• Give and receive feedback in design critiques and product conversations. Pair-design to improve the work, ideate, and have fun together

You bring to Lingoda:

• 5+ years of experience, preferably.
• Experience with industry-standard product design tools such as Figma, Miro, Hotjar, and UserTesting, among others
• Strong communication skills to effectively present your work and bring key stakeholders on board. You are confident in your ideas but open to learning from others
• The ability to conceptualise, work in low and high fidelity, deliver solid visual design & communicate your work and rationale
• Systems thinking and the ability to apply a design system and contribute to it by extrapolating patterns and behaviours from a specific instance to the larger experience and vice versa
• An up-to-date portfolio that demonstrates your skills
• An experimental mindset

Nice to have

• Past experience working on Mobile Apps
• Past experience in EdTech

What can you expect from Lingoda

• Approachable leaders and transparent communication - every voice counts at Lingoda!
• Company events and colleagues who are always happy to socialise
• A great team spirit and passion for languages
• A well-structured and exciting onboarding process
• The possibility to work remotely from your home or...
• … in the office located in the heart of Berlin
• Free access to our language classes
• The modern hardware necessary for your work
• Flexible working hours

Does that sound exciting?
Then, send us your CV right away!
We are looking forward to hearing from you! Your contact person for the position is Marija.
We ask that you please apply directly via the link provided in the job description or directly on our website.Due to GDPR regulations, applications sent otherwise will not be considered.Please note that if you are based outside of Germany that only a freelance contract can be offered. All our contracts whether freelance or regular Germ