Product Team

The product team at Brella incorporates design, front-end, and back-end engineering, quality assurance, and project management. Our team is based in Helsinki HQ and also in Jyväskylä. The design team is working from Helsinki HQ. There is also a possibility for a remote role in Finland.

Why join Brella & our product team? 🚀

• Brella stands out from its competition for its advantage of good design and user experience. We understand that design is a core part of the business. 

• A designer at Brella has all the autonomy they need to research and guide the product in the right direction.

• Our product team works in an Agile way. We believe in the motto -Build, Test, Repeat. We iterate over various solutions to test out our assumptions.

• Everyone in the product team is always eager to learn and never shy away from exploring ideas to make the user experience great!

• We have a positive culture of ownership that enables our designers to create an impact on our customers and business by shaping the product in the right way

• You would have a unique and challenging opportunity with one of the fastest-growing startups in Finland, a truly global and diverse team.

• You could design your workday yourself. We offer flexible working hours and a great office facility in the heart of Helsinki (Kamppi).

  
  

A day in the life of a visual designer at Brella:

• Design a world-class product from brainstorming solutions to fine-tuning those pixels.

• Work on OKRs (Objective - Key Results) assigned to you and make sure that the OKR team (designer, developer, and product manager) are in sync with your work.

• Building a design system and design processes with the team as we scale.

• Conceptualize the original idea by simplifying the complex content with user-centered logic.

• Working on visual designs to make sure Brella aligns with its coherent brand vision across teams such as product and marketing.

• Helping shape the design culture at Brella.

  
  

Do these define you as a designer? 

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in designing software applications across platforms Web, Android, and iOS

• A user advocate who has strong visual design skills to create a state-of-the-art UIs

• Comfort/ passion for working through complex information architectures and abstracting into a powerful UI and obsessed with good user-centered design practices and have an eye for detail

• A clear sense of how to articulate necessitated design fundamentals such as typography, interaction design, and usability to improve both form and function of given assignments

• Knows when to reinvent the wheel to solve complex scenarios and when to stick with common patterns.

• Proficient in Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC, prototyping tools. 

• Knowledge of lean product development.

• Someone who understands that humans can be biased and can constructively work to go past that

• Generalist attitude and good team skills

• Excellent English skills are a must, as it is our internal working language.

  
  

Bonus Skills:

• Icon and illustration work.

• Strong animation and video editing skills

• Experience creating and maintaining design libraries

• Experience thinking about or designing for accessibility using WCAG 2.0 or 2.1

  
  

Things we need to access your application

1. Cover Letter and Curriculum vitae

2. An online portfolio showing experience designing web or mobile applications. (case studies preferred with your role in the project clearly defined, also mention password in the CV if your portfolio is password protected).

What to expect from our recruitment process ♻️

Before making any further decisions, you’ll meet:

👋 Our Lead Product Designer Raunaq. He’ll tell you more about our awesome Design team and our exciting growth plans.

👋 One of your potential future colleagues. So you get a glimpse of our way of working. 

👋 Our Head of Talent & Culture Hanna. She’ll tell you more about our Brella culture & values.

Do you want to influence Brella's future and grow with us? The position is filled as soon as we find the right fit. Thumbs up for the perfect match! 👍