We believe in challenging the status quo. Investing in financial markets should be understandable for everyone to shape their own future while influencing our society.
Astro.io is the next-gen investment app combining brokerage with personalized inspiration and learning based on the individual customer’s interests and experience. Besides intuitive stock trading, personalized algorithms and interactive learning are the main pillars to give the new generation control in financial markets.
The customer is at the center of everything we do to remove all confusion in investing.
Opportunity
Can you lead the strategy for a product and brand targeting the next generation of European investors? And do you obsess about the small details that make all the difference to the user? In the Head of Product Design role, you’ll design and implement your ideas for the next-gen investment app. You'll have the freedom and responsibility in taking the Astro mobile and web products as well as marketing experience from ideation to production.
Profile
You have at least 3-5 years of experience in a similar role, and you likely hold a degree in Design, Game Design, Computer Science, Visual Arts, Multimedia, or equivalent. We value curiosity and skills over degrees.
Want to take part in challenging common practices in the industry through user-centric, delightful design.
Experience in utilizing research, usability tests, and metrics to sharpen design decisions.
Familiarity with growth hacking through product design and community while ensuring long-term customer value.
Proficient in Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD and familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects), or similar.
The Role
Imagine creating the absolute best investment experience. Bring passion and dedication to your work, and there's no limitation to what you could accomplish with Astro.io. We’re looking for a Head of Product Design who can help realize our vision of an exceptional user experience that induces emotional engagement.
You'll lead vision-setting, setting up design processes, designing solutions, prototyping, and overseeing implementation while closely collaborating with customers and the tech team in delivering the best investment app experience. The role is an opportunity to build and scale a design team. You have an entrepreneurial mindset and bring great ideas to the table that helps us get even further as a team.
Team
As a young dynamic team, we value people, excellence, disruption, transparency, intuitiveness, and fun. We care about people and enjoy social activities with the team and our customers. We offer a creative environment with the freedom to innovate.
Formalities
We're located in lovely Copenhagen, Denmark.
Feeling ready to empower a new generation to take greater control of their financial future and help reduce the wealth inequality gap? We’d love to have you apply, even if you feel unsure about meeting every requirement in this posting. At Astro, we’re looking for people inspired by our mission, not just those who check off all the boxes.
This job comes with several perks and benefits
Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.
Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.
Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.
Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.
Peckish after lunch? We got your back with soft drinks, treats and fruit.
Friday is something special, let's enjoy a beer together.