Early career Product Designer - Mobile App

picnic.app; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fresh lunch

Health insurance discount

Bike plan

Relocation assistance

Learning & development

Job summary

Picnic invites a Product Designer to own the design of our core mobile app within the consumer team. You will shape the daily shopping experience for hundreds of thousands of people in The Netherlands, Germany and France from our Amsterdam HQ.

You will work in a fast-scaling environment that values autonomy, collaboration, and adaptability, partnering with UX researchers, product owners, and a growing design system.

Qualifications

• Completed degree in CMD, UX, Interaction or Product Design.
• 0–3 years of UX design experience.
• Portfolio with user-centered design cases.
• Strong curiosity and hands-on exploratory research experience.
• Proficiency in Figma and crafting high-fidelity designs that fit a design system.

Responsibilities

• Own the design of core app features from concept to implementation.
• Collaborate with UX researchers and product owners on briefs.
• Build low and high-fidelity prototypes tested with real users weekly.
• Document final design requirements for developers during development phase.
• Support the development and maintenance of the design system.

Skills

UX design

Figma

Design systems

User research

Education

Design degree (CMD/UX/Interaction/Product Design)

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.