Lead Product Designer to help us redefine online recruitment

Salary Competitive

Join Graduateland - Europe's largest career network for students & graduates. Virtual career fairs, employer branding analytics, kick-ass recruitment - you'll find it all here


Define the future of online recruitment 

With the title of Lead UX/UI Designer at Graduateland comes a key position in the development of Graduateland.com with a strong mobile- and app focus. Key areas of responsibility lie within the development of large new products and features, where you will be tasked with exploring innovative UX solutions, designing state of the art user interfaces, identifying usability problems and understanding use cases.

Our mission

By joining us at Graduateland, you will become part of Europe’s largest career portal for students and graduates. We focus on delivering outstanding career portals to universities all over the world! We have been able to heavily expand, growing from 6 to 25 people in 7 years. More than 1M users have created an account at Graduateland and more than 15.000 recruiters have registered as well.

We are growing fast and we need talented and skillful people right now, and since you are still reading, it could very well be you!

Job Description

  • Develop wireframes, sketches, designs, and prototypes
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  • Design state of the art user interfaces
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  • Collaborate with engineers, product managers and users to deliver amazing experiences
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  • Be a user-advocate during the entire development process
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  • There is potential for a large amount of responsibility as a key player in Graduateland.

Current projects

Apart from the overall improvement of the Graduateland experience, we’ll be focusing on some specific projects where you’ll be having the creative lead:

  • Mobile app: Every company needs an app, right? Well, that's definitely a statement that can be challenged. But at Graduateland it really makes sense after we introduced Graduateland LIVE where users and recruiters can start online chats wherever they are. Be a part of building the best job search app on the market! 
  • Onboarding of users: We constantly thrive towards improving the experience for the job seeking users, so job search can be transformed into a playful yet time-efficient experience. You'll have the leading role together with the CPO in how to engage users via products like Graduateland LIVE, Virtual Career Fairs, our CV Builder and more.

The ideal candidate

  • Enjoys designing beautiful and effective User Interfaces
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  • Considers User Experience as more than just aesthetics
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  • Constantly searches for simplicity
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  • Constructive criticism
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  • Is obsessed with understanding the way people “act” and think
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  • Has the ability to distill key issues from usability tests and implement practical solutions
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  • Has a passion for design and great user experience
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  • Works well both in a collaborative team environment and independently
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  • Is a lifelong learner with a continuous eye for improving your craft
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  • Is a highly motivated self-starter with a positive attitude.

Qualifications

  • Documented experience with design of user interfaces. 
  • Skilled user of the tools from the web designer's toolbox (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Invision, Sketch, Zeplin etc.)
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  • Excellent understanding of desktop and mobile design
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  • We would love if you have some basic experience with coding (that means that you know that CSS and HTML are not abbreviations for a new game console - well maybe you've even built your own Wordpress site or the like). - 
  • This will smoothen the collaboration with our skilled developers. 
  • Our product development is data-driven which means that we take our user data seriously (we use Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Optimizely, Inspectlet, Intercom), and use these insights when developing new features. If you have some experience with these tracking tools it would be great! 
  • You are creative and ready to solve tasks that haven’t been solved before
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  • We are located in the über cool tech hub, Startup Village, at Islands Brygge, Copenhagen.

Let's get in touch 

If you are that candidate that sees yourself in the above description and loves entrepreneurship, innovation, high-performance culture, pool, Friday bars and development - then we’d love to hear from you. We’re looking to occupy the position ASAP.
 Please send your CV, motivational letter and a link/attachment to previous work to CPO, Jonas Dohlmann, via the application link.

Please don’t hesitate to call us if you have questions, you are welcome to contact Jonas via (+45 53 67 27 04).
 We look forward to hearing from you!

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Working at
Graduateland

Graduateland is Europe's preferred career portal for students and graduates. We are a fast-paced organisation with +20 employees. Despite our size, we count team members from +5 different countries and English is spoken as much as Danish. We love what we do, and our work morale is sky high. We expect the best from each other and we strive for perfection. This will be expected from anybody joining the team.

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