UX/UI Designer

Merapar; Veldhoven; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaborative, cross-functional team

Room to keep learning and growing

Influence on product design

Job summary

Merapar is building a new digital product for small and medium-sized businesses, providing on-site and online tools to attract customers, quote, invoice, and manage payments. You will join a cross-functional team to shape the product from concept to launch, designing user-friendly mobile and web experiences that help owners save time and work more efficiently.

You will conduct user research, create flows and prototypes, maintain a design system, and collaborate with product, frontend, backend,

Qualifications

• Experience as a UX/UI or Product Designer with a portfolio showing process and deliverables.
• Strong understanding of user-centred design principles.
• Experience designing for mobile and web.
• Ability to explain design ideas clearly to technical and non-technical people.
• Hands-on in an early-stage product environment.

Responsibilities

• Do user research to learn how business owners find customers, quote for work and get paid, and use insights to guide design decisions.
• Create user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes for mobile and web.
• Design clear and efficient experiences for admin-heavy tasks, such as managing quotes, invoices and customer records.
• Design trustworthy interactions for important moments like sending quotes or recording payments.
• Build and maintain a consistent design system for both platforms.
• Work closely with product manager, developers and data engineer to shape product direction, visuals and experience.
• Ensure designs follow brand guidelines and accessibility standards.
• Keep improving designs based on user feedback and analytics.

Skills

User research

Wireframes

Mocks & prototypes

Design systems

Figma

Usability testing

Explain design decisions

Mobile and web design

English fluency

Tools

Figma

Job description

About Merapar

Merapar is a strong brand within the Media and Entertainment industry, growing very fast. TV is our first love, but we are rapidly expanding into new areas such as IoT, Data Management and Analytics.

Being part of our global professional services organisation, you have the chance to help build Merapar into an even better place to work.

Driven by passion, we help clients imagine, build and run strategic infrastructures, workflows and direct to consumer applications that bring content to users worldwide.

The people who work at Merapar are our most important asset, and we are an inclusive organisation that encourages difference. We invest in training and certification, for example in cloud technology and Agile methods. We believe in Agile management and development, and we support our self organising teams.

• We are customer focused >> Engage. Don’t ignore.
• We work as a team >> Work together. Don’t swim alone.
• We improve, learn and share >> Advance. Don’t stagnate.
• We encourage difference >> Be yourself. Don’t conform.
• We deliver quality >> Excel. Don’t settle.

About the project

We are building a new digital product for small and medium-sized businesses, such as sole traders, tradespeople and local service providers. Many of these businesses still run on a mix of phone calls, messages, paper notes and spreadsheets. Our product brings the customer side of their business together in one place, so they can:

• Attract customers: get discovered and manage new enquiries and leads
• Quote: create and send clear, professional quotes quickly, often from a phone on site
• Invoice and get paid: create invoices, keep track of what is outstanding and follow up on payments

The product will be available as a mobile app and as a web application for PC and Mac, used for admin, reporting and record-keeping. Because the product is at an early stage, you help lay the foundations and shape the experience, from the first concepts all the way to launch.

About the role

We are looking for a UX/UI Designer who loves turning everyday business tasks into something simple, clear and pleasant to use. You join a cross-functional team with a product manager, frontend and backend developers and a data engineer, and you are the person who makes sure the product makes sense to the people who use it.

As a UX/UI Designer you

understand how business owners really work, and you use that knowledge to design mobile and web experiences that save them time. You combine strong design skills with the ability to explain your choices clearly to developers, product people and stakeholders.

You

• Do user research to learn how business owners find customers, quote for work and get paid, and use those insights to guide design decisions
• Create user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes for both mobile and web
• Design clear and efficient experiences for admin-heavy tasks, such as managing quotes, invoices and customer records
• Design trustworthy interactions for important moments, like sending a quote or recording a payment, so users always feel in control of what reaches their customers
• Build and maintain a consistent design system that works on both platforms
• Work closely with the product manager, developers and data engineer to shape the product direction, visuals and experience
• Make sure your designs follow brand guidelines and accessibility standards
• Keep improving designs based on user feedback and analytics

You have

• Experience as a UX/UI or Product Designer, with a portfolio that shows your process as well as the end result
• A strong understanding of user-centred design principles
• Experience designing for both mobile and web
• Strong skills in Figma or similar design tools
• Experience with user research and usability testing
• The ability to explain your design ideas clearly, to technical and non-technical people
• A hands-on mentality: you are comfortable working in an early-stage product where not everything is defined yet
• An open mind and curiosity about new tools, including AI tools that can make design work faster
• Excellent English, spoken and written

Nice to have

• Experience designing data-driven features, such as dashboards, reports or customer records
• Experience with products for small businesses, or with quoting, invoicing or payment flows
• Experience setting up a design system from scratch
• Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS, so you know what is realistic for developers to build

What we offer

• A competitive salary based on experience and location
• The chance to shape a new product from the very start
• Real influence on the product and the way it looks and works
• Room to keep learning and growing
• A collaborative, cross-functional team with short lines of communication

Location

Netherlands.