Senior Product Designer (UI Designer)

Salary Competitive

Founded in 2016, we at Forecast are augmenting project-based organizations with intelligent automation so our customers can predict the future, operate at maximum efficiency, and profitably deliver beyond expectations. Our powerful and intuitive AI puts the cumulative skills and learnings from hundreds of thousands of projects to work for every user, every day.


There are so many fun and creative ideas that are waiting to be designed and built! At Forecast, we are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our growing team, and join our exciting journey in changing project management. 

You’ll work as a UI designer,  participate in building our design system, and work closely together with UX’ers, developers, and managers to ensure that our platform is easy to use, beautiful, satisfying, and efficient for our users. Your main responsibility will be to design the core applications for resource management. 

You will join a product team, which consists of a designer (you), a UX’er, a product manager, and developers. We create software together in cross-functional teams, and each team has a great influence on how to work, what to build, and how to interact with customers.

Being part of a fast moving startup can be challenging and you must be comfortable working in an ever changing environment since we work very agile. However, if you have a passion for crafting great user interfaces and you want to leave your mark on the Future of Work, then you’d be a great fit for our team! In short, you will have a big impact in shaping delightful products, assets, and features that will come to represent us. You’ll be involved in every step of the process from strategic concept design to hands on development of all aspects of Forecast products.

Who we are looking for

First of all, we are looking for someone skilled, fun, passionate, who loves designing, discussing design and design interactions, and can think through all the details of a new design. You like to work in a team, can bring your design skills in play, and can argue for your design decisions. You can handle feedback, knowledge from other professions, and you can incorporate it into current and future work. We love having fun and are passionate about our product, and we hope you will join us in this! 

Core responsibilities

  • Designing our digital product and experiences in different fidelities and for different purposes

  • Responsible for the look & feel of current and future features so they’re visually appealing, simple, easy to understand, learn, and use. And be a champion in keeping the designs streamlined across the platform

  • Develop concepts and designs in collaboration with UX’ers, developers, managers, and other designers in an agile process 

  • Obsess about our users and what their problems are

  • Work iteratively based on data, customer input, feedback, and new learnings

  • Deliver final designs in all states: Responsive, pixel perfect designs for the engineering team to build

  • Participate in updating and maintaining the design system

  • Understand and champion user problems in product teams

  • Own and develop the design process in a team from research and conceptualization to final design and implementation in the product

  • Maintaining our design system and make sure it is always up to date

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of design (UI) experience, where the majority is designing software products

  • Experience from working in an agile and iterative product development team. Including experience working with engineers

  • A bachelor's degree or similar from an established design school

  • Experience from a B2B product is an advantage

  • Good at receiving and giving feedback

  • You have a natural eye for minimal design and good composition, and you obsess about details, and delighting users

  • Understanding of Human-centered design, product interactions, and design systems

  • Excellent written/verbal communication skills —  you should be able to clearly articulate your design decisions. Including being fluent in English

  • Strong knowledge of usability principles and building design systems

  • Understanding of basic transition animations

  • Be a good team player

Alongside your CV, please include a link to your portfolio, and a short application. In your application, include at least one example of a digital product you have worked on and how you created this design (in less than 250).

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Free lunch
Free lunch

Enjoy a free catered lunch with your colleagues, every day.

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

Peckish after lunch? We got your back with soft drinks, treats and fruit.

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Working at
Forecast

Forecast centralizes project management, resourcing & financial data into one easy-to-use, native AI-powered platform. Integrating seamlessly with our customer’s existing technology stack, Forecast optimizes real-time planning, predictive analysis and financial returns across delivery teams and projects. Your work. Your resources. Your finances. All connected. All the features you need in one streamlined tool, Forecast is the ultimate upgrade for any delivery team – from time-billing professional service providers to in-house project teams. Technology doing what it does best, so humans can do what they do best. Founded in 2016, Forecast is backed by world renowned investors including Balderton Capital & Crane Venture Partners.

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