Early career Product Designer - Mobile App

Picnic Technologies; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fresh lunches

Health insurance discount

Bike plan

Relocation support

Lepaya courses

OpenUp mental wellbeing

Pension plan

25 holidays

Job summary

Picnic Technologies in Amsterdam is seeking a Product Designer for our consumer team to own the design of the core mobile app used by hundreds of thousands in NL, DE and FR. You’ll collaborate with UX researchers and product owners, create prototypes, and contribute to design libraries in a fast-scaling environment.

We value autonomy, collaboration, and curiosity. On-site full-time in Amsterdam HQ with open opportunities for growth and a strong emphasis on user-centered design.

Qualifications

• Completed degree in a relevant design field.
• 0-3 years of UX design experience or strong interest in building great products.
• Portfolio with user-centered design cases showing problem solving.
• Curiosity to understand customers and hands-on exploratory research experience.
• Proficiency with Figma and ability to craft high-fidelity designs that fit the design system.

Responsibilities

• Own the design of new features from start to finish.
• Sharpen briefs based on explorative research with UX researchers and product owners.
• Build low and high fidelity prototypes for weekly user testing.
• Document final design requirements for developers during development.
• Contribute to design libraries and system maintenance.
• Explore new ideas to initiate projects and improvements.

Skills

Design degree

UX design (0-3 years)

Figma proficiency

UI design systems

English fluent

EU work permit

On-site

Education

Relevant design degree

Tools

Figma

Job description

In a nutshell

Join us in designing the future of grocery shopping. As a Product Designer in our consumer team, you'll own the design of our core mobile app, shaping the daily shopping experience for hundreds of thousands of people in The Netherlands, Germany and France. You'll tackle the unique challenge of designing for a task that is frequent, personal, and central to our customers' lives. You'll be part of a dedicated product team and our wider UX Guild, a creative community that ensures a world-class user experience across Picnic. We're looking for a passionate designer to join our Amsterdam HQ and help build a product people genuinely love, in a fast-scaling environment that values autonomy, collaboration, and adaptability over rigid processes.

Tricks of the trade

• Have the autonomy to own the design of new features from beginning to end. Everything you do matters and will be developed and tested at a fast pace.
• Sharpen project briefs based on explorative research together with UX researchers and product owners.
• Build low and high fidelity prototypes to be tested and evaluated on a weekly basis with real users.
• Document the final design requirements on interaction and UI level to brief and support developers during the development phase.
• Learn and grow through the continuous feedback and mentoring by seasoned UX designers and researchers.
• Support the development and maintenance of our design libraries and system.
• Continuously explore new ideas in order to initiate new projects and improvements, design is never done ;).

Your superpowers

• You have a completed degree in a relevant design field (e.g. CMD, UX, Interaction or Product Design)
• You have 0-3 years of experience as a UX designer and have worked on or have a strong interest in building great products
• Your portfolio has user-centered design cases that show your problem solving capabilities
• You have a deep curiosity to understand our customers and have hands-on experience in exploratory research to discover and define user problems from scratch
• You know your way around Figma and are able to craft high-fidelity designs that fit into our design system
• You bring a low-ego, collaborative mindset and enjoy building solutions together
• You're fluent in English and holder of an EU work permit
• You're open to work on-site fulltime

Picnic perks

Fresh Lunch, coffee, and snacks

Our offices are equipped with fully-fledged coffee bars and a kitchen and chefs. They prepare delicious fresh and warm lunches every day so you can keep your energy up.

Health insurance discount & bike plan

We have a partnership with CZ (a health insurance provider). Picnic employees get a discount on CZ insurance packages between 5% and 15%. Furthermore, through our partnership with Lease a Bike, you can rent-to-own a new (e)bike at a discounted rate

Relocation

If you're moving from another country to join Picnic we make it as smooth as possible for you. We'll cover your flight costs for you and your partner and kids, your first month's rent and moving costs (up to €2000), and help you with the 30% tax ruling setup and application.

Learning & development

You'll get ample opportunity to work on yourself at Picnic. We offer personal development through Lepaya courses, Academy trainings, and more. Interested in improving your mental wellbeing? Through OpenUp you get free access to trained psychologists and many courses.

All the rest

At Picnic you get 25 holidays, we cover your travel expenses and offer a pension plan. And your phone and laptop are on us, as well.