We at sevdesk
As an intuitive cloud accounting software, we empower founders, self-employed individuals, and small business owners to focus on what truly matters. Our product offers them a smart accounting tool to save time in their daily activities. As a company, we aim for excellence, continuously expand our horizons, and strive for daily improvement of our product and our daily work life. In pursuit of these goals, we rely on our strong culture, innovative spirit, and unwavering passion. In the future, we hope to count you among our dedicated team members.
Your mission
Help business owners focus on growing their business by turning collaboration with tax advisors (Steuerberater) into an efficient, reliable, yet delightful experience.
Lead design for this crucial problem space, joining Alex (PM) and Simon (EM) to form a new product trio.
Short term
- Together you’ll discover opportunities and challenges entrepreneurs face when inviting and sharing business data with tax advisors.
- Deliver, measure and iterate the most impactful solutions hand in hand with an experienced team of engineering who know this space incredibly well.
- Tap into related areas across sevdesk, such as banking and receipt management, to craft seamless end-to-end experiences for business owners and their tax advisors.
Long term
- Co-lead the product vision, drawing from your insights to rethink how tax advisors integrate with their clients’ businesses. Experts like Tobias are eager to share their deep knowledge of tax and accounting, to inspire and inform your thinking.
Your qualification
We want you to be successful in your role. We believe you’ll need to bring or grow the following qualities:
- 5+ years of UX or Product Design experience with a proven track record of working effectively within established product teams or early-stage start-ups
- A deep obsession with understanding customers—their needs, problems, and finding desirable solutions.
- Strong product thinking skills, with the ability to challenge your own assumptions and those of others.
- A portfolio that demonstrates attention to detail and a passion for your craft, designing accessible user interfaces across web and mobile.
- Experience working with user researchers and/or employing various research methods to ensure well-informed design decisions.
- Effective communication skills, capable of articulating your design rationale clearly. You can bring cross-functional peers and stakeholders along on the journey, continuously processing feedback and remaining open to changing your mind and direction based on relevant input. In addition German (B2+) is required for user interviews.
- Thrive in environments where rapid learning is followed by thoughtful and swift actions. You lead by taking action.
- A love for collaboration, both to learn from other designers, and to help them grow.
Even better
- Service Design
- Facilitation toolkit experience
- Experience working in the domains of taxes, accounting, finance, or data.
Our Offer
Join to do the best work of your career. We believe the greatest benefit we can offer you is the opportunity to develop your skills and field of influence.
- “A seat at the table”. Designers are highly valued parterns to all functions at sevdesk.
- Guided Autonomy: We believe in your ability to take ownership of your work and in independent decisions, while aligning with product strategy and receiving support and direction as needed.
- Regular team offsites and quarterly events with networking opportunities.
You can find more great benefits below
Join us
If you find the role interesting, we'd love to receive your application!
Please, kindly ensure to include a portfolio in your application, ideally showcasing your design process from exploratory stages through execution.
Our interview process usually consists of no more than 4 stages and is meant to be a positive experience regardless of the outcome.
If you have any further questions about the position or the application process, you can turn to our Talent Acquisition Manager [email protected] at any time.
