Job description
Wrike is the most powerful work management platform. Built for teams and organizations looking to collaborate, create, and exceed every day, Wrike brings everyone and all work into a single place to remove complexity, increase productivity, and free people up to focus on their most purposeful work.
Our vision: A world where everyone is free to focus on their most purposeful work, together.
Ready to become a Wriker?
As a Product Designer, you will become a part of our international Product Design team and of one of our cross-functional teams. As such you will be enjoying the support of a community of UX professionals while advancing on one of our product missions. The role will require outstanding interaction design skills, good interface design skills along with a strategic mentality to solve customer and business problems as well as the ability to collaborate with product managers, engineers, researchers, writers, customer success specialists, and more.
More about Your team
Wrike product design team consists of 15+ full-stack product designers, 3 UX researchers, 3 UX writers, a Design System Architect, 2 UX Architects, 3 Design Managers and a Head of Product Design. The team is distributed among different locations with 2 main hubs located in Prague and Cyprus. All these professionals are inspired by each other, the broader organisation and by our customers. Everyone is expected to lead UX in their product area and partner with their PMs and Engineering leaders.
This position belongs to a unit called Core Product that is responsible for the very fundamental experiences:
- How users store all work related information and efficiently use it to understand what needs attention.
- How users set up work structures of their projects and project portfolios, manage and execute them.
- How users access their work through simple and easy to understand navigation.
How You’ll make an impact
- Leading product design strategy by evaluating and identifying the intersection of business needs, customer needs, and technical opportunities.
- Actively designing and building products by working closely with designers, product managers, and engineers.
- Constructing compelling artifacts (wireframes, conceptual diagrams, task flows, storyboards, etc.) that outline present conditions and proposed solutions to gain strategic alignment and encourage innovation within and across the organisation.
- Meeting with customers and development partners to validate designs and make iterative improvements.
- Participating in the continuous improvement of customer experience tools and processes, and scalable product design standards.
- Assisting in customer research activities during the planning, strategy development, and early design of solutions.
- Collaborating with development teams and business leaders to drive successful implementation of phenomenal experiences in our software and services.
- Participating in design-thinking exercises to break through organisational silos and collaboratively seek sophisticated design challenges.
How we work
All teams use Wrike to structure and execute work, and our main design tool is Figma. We like to generate and test hypotheses via UX research and analytics and we strive to excel at both discovery and delivery using human-centred design. We work in cross-functional teams and we use OKR’s to define the metrics of success.
You will achieve your best if you have
- Significant professional design experience and proven knowledge of human-centered design standard methodologies.
- Ability to visualize and prototype intended solutions at various levels of fidelity, from high-level wireframes or mock-ups to conceptual presentations to highly technical documents and diagrams.
You will stand out with
- Ability to present designs to a wide range of audiences, including software development, quality assurance, learning content development, marketing, and sales.
- Proven track record of helping cross-functional teams to work better together to deliver on customer outcomes.
- Ability to think outside of the box and generate ideas rapidly
- Expertise to draw conclusions from the dataset.
- Ability to identify cracks in a complex system, suggest and design improvements, including new features.
- Competency to clearly and concisely articulate design decisions.
- A habit to proactively seek working design solutions in other products, inspire and adopt the best.
- Familiarity with customer research methods.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the capability to distill complex ideas to their essence.
- Experience with agile software design methods.
- Visual or graphic design background.
- Software development background is an advantage.
Perks of working at Wrike
- 28 calendar days of paid vacation
- Sick leave compensation
- Life insurance plan
- Health insurance plan
- Fitness plan (800 EUR/year)
- Parental leave
- 2 volunteer days
- Full-remote for residents of Estonia & On-demand access to Co-working space
- Utility allowance (30 EUR/month, subject to taxation)
Your recruitment buddy will be Alexandra Vorobyova, Lead Recruiter.
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Who Is Wrike and Our Culture
We’re a team of innovators and creators who solve the complex work problems of today and tomorrow.
Hybrid work mode
Wrike promotes a hybrid work mode for those that live near an office hub, we meet in the office 2-3 times a week. This work mode supports our culture of collaboration and solving problems fast to deliver business outcomes and win together.
Our persona
💡 Smart: We love what we do, and we’re great at it because this is our domain. Our combined knowledge in this space is unmatched.
💚 Dedicated: We get up every day focused on helping our customers win. We’re committed to helping our teammates win, too!
🤗 Approachable: We’re friendly, easy to get along with, considerate, and helpful.
Our culture and Values
🤩 Customer-Focused
We care about our customers. We understand the customer journey, experience, and value derived from Wrike. Decision-making and action-taking are done with the customer in mind.
🤝 Collaborative
We work as one and win together, each bringing unique strengths that contribute to diversity of thought for better outcomes. Leveraging our own work management platform, we foster an environment of creative collaboration and shared achievement.
🎨 Creative
We strive to succeed through continuous innovation. It’s our pursuit of novel concepts that helped us create a market category. We continue to cultivate a workplace that fosters creative thinking as a means of transcending conventional boundaries and empowers us to break new ground to deliver extraordinary work management solutions.
💪 Committed
We believe in ownership at all levels of the organization, by owning workflows from start to finish. Each member of our team is an integral part of this commitment, establishing work as a platform for personal growth and transformation, as well as collective success and growth.
Check out our LinkedIn Life Page, Company culture page, Instagram, Wrike Engineering Team, Medium, Meetup.com, Youtube for a feel for what life is like at Wrike.
