Senior UX Designer (m/f/d) Berlin
Forte Digital builds relevant digital products for our clients by combining the power of data, technology, and design. We create meaningful experiences and deliver value across the entire customer journey all while working in joint interdisciplinary teams with our clients.Your role as Senior UX Designer is pivotal in shaping the user experience of our digital products, ensuring they are intuitive, engaging, and meet the highest standards of usability.
You should be based in Berlin to join our Forte Team in Germany.
Responsibilities:
- Develop wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups to visualize and communicate design concepts. Ensure all designs are user-centered, accessible, and aligned with business objectives.
- Conduct comprehensive user research to gather insights into user behaviors, needs, and motivations. Utilize various research methods including interviews, surveys, and usability testing to inform design decisions.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams including product managers, developers, and other designers to ensure seamless integration of UX design into the product development process. Advocate for user needs and design best practices throughout the project lifecycle.
- Plan, execute, and analyze usability tests to validate design solutions. Iterate on designs based on user feedback and testing results to enhance user satisfaction and product usability.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of design systems and guidelines to ensure consistency and scalability across all digital products.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level UX designers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the design team.
- Present design concepts and research findings to stakeholders, articulating the rationale behind design decisions and advocating for user-centered solutions.
Required skills:
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in UX design, with a proven track record of designing successful digital products. Experience in leading UX design projects from concept to completion.
- Proficiency in design tools such as Figma and prototyping tools like Axure. Strong understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and their impact on UX design.
- Expertise in user research methodologies and usability testing. Ability to synthesize research findings into actionable design insights.
- Deep understanding of user-centered design principles, information architecture, interaction design, and accessibility standards.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.Full professional proficiency in German and English.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to think critically and creatively to develop innovative design solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced,environment. Strong interpersonal skills and a team-oriented mindset.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, or a related field.
About us:
We are a dedicated team of 350 consultants, designers, developers and exceptional people headquartered in Oslo. In collaboration with our clients, we design digital products and processes to enable existing businesses to the next level of success and digitalization. Influenced by our Norwegian origin, we adapted Scandinavian pragmatism in our daily way of work: short decision-making paths, flat hierarchies and a proactive, inclusive workforce – that is Forte Digital. We strive for long-term commitments in our client relationships and with our employees because we believe that engaged people are the key to trust and success. To support the individual development of our employees and colleagues, we offer various options to advance their skills, careers and to live an encouraging work culture.
What we offer:
You’ll be a part of an international digital consulting company, and a team of highly skilled people with a common desire to create the workplace of our dreams. We are achieving our goal of creating the best digital solutions and long-term value for our customers by utilizing deep knowledge, autonomy, openness, generosity and cooperation.
You’ll be part of a great team! We want all our colleagues to have a voice and we make decisions as a team. As one of our colleagues, you will be part of a future focused growth, design, technology and consulting organization with an open and flat structure, where people, knowledge and creating the best solutions for our clients are in the driving seat.
You’ll meet a lot of passionate people who love to share and to learn from each other. We have several processes in place that ensure continuous and regular exchange between all knowledge hubs.
We are solution-oriented and pragmatic in our approach, with regard to both our methods and each other as well as in our collaboration with clients. Among the 350 Forte Digital employees in Scandinavia and Poland, we are a hub of over 30 specialists. Big enough to handle complex projects and small enough to be there for our customers quickly and non-bureaucratically.
We work with ambitious but stable clients that are looking for long-term engagements.
The opportunity to develop personally and professionally in different competency classes or in our Forte Academy but also in an agile team, which lives an open error and feedback culture and promotes, among other things, training and education of the Scrum Alliance.
The doors of our office in Berlin Kreuzberg are always open for you and our other hubs are happy to welcome you abroad as well. Additionally, you have the option of a 4-day work week.
Enjoy the international environment with offices in Oslo, Krakow, Berlin and Copenhagen and clients from all over Europe.
At Forte Digital, we offer 30 vacation days.
We'll support your Urban Sports Club membership.
Participation in social activities like trips, dinners and activities like golf, rock climbing, football and squash.
We encourage our employees to decide which charitable projects our company invests in and which causes we can support.
We own a very nice property in France at the disposal of all employees whether for workation or vacation purposes (yes, the pool is included)!
Contact us
Mandy-Lee Smarz
Head of HR & Recruitingkarriere@fortedigital.com