Lead Product Designer

Lead Product Designer

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Optiml is revolutionizing real estate with our Real Estate Decision Intelligence (REDI) software – an AI‑powered technology that helps decarbonize buildings while optimizing asset and portfolio performance. Since our launch in April 2024, we have scaled across Europe and the US, received significant industry recognition, and won three major Prop Tech awards, including the 2024 ULI Europe Prop Tech of the Year and the 2024 ZIA Prop Tech of the Year.

We are backed by $6 M in pre‑seed funding from top‑tier US and EU funds, including Innovation Endeavors, Planet A, Bit Stone, and Kompas.

• Lead design and user experience (UX) for parts of our core product.
• Ship deliverables – prototypes, UX flows, wireframes, UI mockups – to communicate and experiment with ideas.
• Partner with team leads to prioritize initiatives in the roadmap.
• Break down ambiguous problems and prioritize high‑impact work given resource constraints.
• Empathize with enterprise customers, impersonate them, identify pain points, and advocate solutions continually.
• Distill insights from all parts of the organization into updated beliefs and design principles.
• Shape the design practice within the organization—documentation, workflows, frameworks—to support all design collaborators (Remote included).

Must have

• 5+ years of experience in a tech/startup company.
• Extraordinary visual design skills and strong understanding of UX principles.
• Proven experience designing data‑rich enterprise applications.
• Ability to interface with business stakeholders.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, capable of framing design decisions with clarity and intent.
• Strong collaboration skills with product teams shipping software.
• Experience with prototyping.

Nice to have

• Experience in Service Design Thinking and Customer Experience (CX).
• Understanding of software engineering workflows.
• Experience with user interviews, user testing or UX research.

• Direct impact on the product and go‑to‑market direction of Optiml.
• Unique opportunity to learn: try, fail, iterate, and build new skills every day in a culture that values growth & development individually and as a team.
• Learning and development budget of CHF 1 k (conferences, certificates, etc.).
• Accident insurance (UVG) covered 100 % for non‑occupational accident.
• Flexible parental leave.

Please include your design portfolio in the application.