Senior Product Designer

We are on a mission to build a better world by unleashing the potential of human ingenuity.

We do so by maximizing the impact of design and manufacturing teams through radically efficient tools. We are reimagining legacy computer-aided design (CAD) tools with an iconic, truly multi-platform product. We believe we are on the right track to get there: Apple, famous for their high design standards, rewarded our early steps with an Apple Design Award and countless keynote mentions ever since.

Most recently our Windows app is gaining traction amongst enterprise customers: Shapr3D is being used by Fortune 100 companies in aerospace, automotive and consumer goods industries. This is fueled by our loyal champions, the very apparent ease of use of Shapr3D means real cost savings in training and efficiency. One well-known automotive customer says, this can be as much as 95% compared to a decades old competitor.

"I think that great interaction design is always a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. There are no shortcuts because this is something that you can’t really figure out. You just have to observe how your users actually want to interact your with design or with your software. We did hundreds of prototypes, interaction prototypes. You can step-by-step get to the right solution, it took us four and a half years to get to this level of polish."  István Csanády, CEO

The Product Designer Role

Your job as a designer will be to capitalize on this momentum, and work every day to eliminate the unnecessary complexity of CAD workflows to boost the speed and efficiency for design and manufacturing teams.

You will be working with data, direct customer insights (sales calls, field trips, onsite demos, interviews), using the product yourself, learning competitor apps, applying relevant patterns, combining input from developers and relying on your insights to get to just the right solutions with your cross-functional team. 

You will be working towards a specific mission: enable the collaborative workflows of teams of industrial designers in enterprise customers. You will be setting the roadmap of your team with the Product Manager and Engineering Manager, and pitching, prototyping and validating it.

Culture

• Shapr has a down to earth culture, it is easy to see what good looks like
• The quality of your work is a key ingredient to the product’s and your success, your willingness and ability to engage in collaborative interactions is the other one
• We learned the hard way, that this relies on everyone being in the same space, so Shapr became an office first company with flexibility to take care of your life when you need it
• We strive to stay close to the roots, and keep up a startup spirit: great individual autonomy, holistic responsibility, incredibly short decision chains
• As a designer, you won’t just focus on the solution, but defining the problem and tracking execution until it gets to the hands of customers

Your background

• A minimum of 4 years of industry experience in product design with a proven track record of successful application(s)
• Ability to define problems & goals, map user flows, prototype interactions, and oversee the building process
• A deep understanding of customer problems to create elegant, but practical solutions
• Use data and user research to make design decisions
• Strong visual design, UX, and problem-solving skills
• A good understanding of layout/structure, typography, animation and best practices on various screen sizes
• Being familiar with native desktop and mobile interface guidelines
• Work well in a fast-paced environment