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Senior Digital Product Designer

We are looking for a Senior Digital Product Designer to drive the design of our scientific discovery application.

Abzu Barcelona

Abzu Copenhagen

Abzu^® is building a scientific discovery application called Reason^®. Reason is a brand new, immersive workflow that augments the human mind to answer the world’s persistent questions in science, business, and everyday life.

We are looking for a Senior Digital Product Designer to drive the design of our scientific discovery application, based in Barcelona or Copenhagen.

Your team

You’ll be an integral part of a small cross-functional Product team with expertise in software engineering, user experience, artificial intelligence, and product development. You’ll collaborate closely with Marta, our UX’er, as well as with the product team developers: Tom, Roger, Emil, Jaan, Casper, and Valentina. More teammates will be joining us in the coming months. Read more about each of us here.

The team works in a self-managed way, where the pragmatic approach and user value win the day. We are highly collaborative across offices and teams, so it’s important to be good at teaching, learning, and exchanging ideas.

As the team (and the company) is distributed between two locations, we have occasional gatherings and you will be required to travel to Copenhagen/Barcelona every now and then.

Your role

You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping design decisions around Abzu’s first core product. Together with Marta, you will have responsibility over the UX direction and processes, working with different stakeholders and customers, to help bring about our vision and ensure our approach is the right one.

Your design team will be tasked with conducting user research, developing wireframes and prototypes, performing usability testing, and whatever else is required to create a product that satisfies the needs of both business and customers.

You’ll need broad experience and interests, a self-starting, entrepreneurial mentality, and the ability to deal with the ambiguity that comes with deep tech product development.

About you…

The right candidate has a clear view on how to navigate the above and a desire to work in (mostly) uncharted territory.

Preferably you have a strong design school background plus several years experience in core (digital) product design. Alternatively, demonstrable experience in designing novel products with a strong understanding of the design processes that enable that.

Experience designing in a scientific field is a clear plus, but not required.

5+ years in a senior UX/UI or digital product design role
Experience in defining and conducting user research and translating the results into actionable plans to improve user experience and product
Strong UI and interaction design skills
Experience designing for complex SaaS products
Proficiency in Figma and adapting existing Design Systems (e.g., MUI)
A portfolio or other way of showing examples of your work
Experience providing guidance and mentorship to other designers

We'd love it if…

You are a design generalist. You might tilt more towards one design discipline over another, but you’re familiar with the full range of skills required to design a product
You are a fast learner
You thrive in ambiguity and are comfortable with change and context switching
You have a passion for AI and science or research

How to apply

We will review applications as they come in, but please apply by the 15th of February, 2023 by sending your CV and cover letter to Maria Jacobsen at maria.jacobsen@abzu.ai.

About Abzu

Founded in February 2018, Abzu is an applied research startup with offices in Copenhagen, Denmark and Barcelona, Spain.

Abzu was born from the desire to challenge the fundamental assumptions of contemporary, black-box AI. Abzu’s pioneering artificial intelligence, the QLattice^®, accelerates analysis and insights through transparent and explainable models.

You’ll have the opportunity to be part of a highly-skilled, fast-thinking, and energetic team. Our philosophy and culture are based on self management, which empowers people to be themselves and make their own decisions about their work.

We are focused on creating the best environment where people have integrity, a strong sense of responsibility, and collaborate in creative and inspiring ways. We believe and trust in people, their high potential, and inestimable value.

This requires transparency and trust, which is an integral part of our technology and who we are. This organizational style is not a fit for everyone.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

As a global startup, Abzu is committed to advancing social equity and inclusive growth and standing against injustice, bias, discrimination, and racism – worldwide.