requirements, facilitate workshops, iterate on solutions, and deliver designs that align with business & customer goals, and that balance design quality and timely delivery. Strategy & Roadmap Development: Support product managers and relevant stakeholders to develop and maintain a prioritised product roadmap that maintains a high bar for design and user experience, ensuring continual alignment with business objectives. Design Leadership & Processes: Maintain and elevate ongoing design processes and artefacts such as design systems, tooling, standards and trends, collaboration methods, educating and mentoring others in the product and tech teams on best practices. Mentoring & Design Practice: Mentor and support another product designer, provide thoughtful feedback, and help establish pragmatic design rituals, standards, and ways of working. Customer & Design Advocacy: Use user research, product metrics, usability testing, support feedback, and design expertise to become an internal expert and advocate on how customers think, what a good user experience means for them, and how we should reflect that in our product. Your profile: 4+ years of experience as a Product Designer, with clear ownership of complex mobile or web product experiences in ideally a fast-paced and dynamic startup/tech company. User-centric and naturally curious, knowing how to do user research, usability testing, and hypotheses validation, constantly wondering why users do what they do, with strong instincts on what makes a good user experience to delight customers. Strong understanding of UX principles, visual design, and interaction design, and loves to be on top of the latest market trends. Strong UI judgment: Design patterns, hierarchy, spacing, typography, accessibility, and overall interaction quality. Experience contributing to and improving design systems that ensure products are cohesive and consistent. Pragmatic and flexible, knowing when to accept 'good enoughâ vs challenging the status quo. We pride ourselves on moving quickly but with confidence. Strong ability to simplify complex product logic, data, settings, and system states into clear user experiences. Strong ownership with excellent problem-solving skills, organisational skills, and attention to detail with experience working in an agile environments while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Great stakeholder management skills, including communication, alignment, and gathering and integrating feedback. We like to promote a culture of transparency. Strong command of English. We are a vibrant international team with English being our company-wide language.
Nice to have: Experience working with B2C products that involve delightfully displaying of complicated data and settings like statistics and other data visualisation techniques. Experience with front-end development and software engineering. Experience with micro-animations and interaction styles Loves to play around using AI workflows Strong command of the German language. Many of our customers and much of our industry partners are German speaking so it'll be an advantage. Interview process Portfolio Review and Culture Fit Interview A conversation with the Product Lead to learn about your design craft and cultural fit. Take Home Case Study We will give you a take-home task (3-4 hours) to understand how you approach problems and design a simple mobile flow. Case Study Review and Product Collaboration Interview Presentation of your case, Q&A, and a conversation about product collaboration with the Product Lead and one of our Product Managers . Co-Founder Interview A final conversation to discuss alignment, culture, ownership, and your impact on Ostrom as a whole. Why us? Environmental Impact: Each customer who switches to Ostrom on average helps offset 1.5 tons of CO2 emissions per year compared to the average German energy mix. Flexibility : We offer a hybrid work model within Germany. You choose where you want to work and have an office in Berlin, Mitte. Stock options: On top of offering a competitive salary you will have access to company shares to ensure you can truly be part of the journey. Relocation package : We won't let distance get in the way, we offer visa and relocation support. Trust-based Team : A truly flat hierarchy and transparent company culture, where everyoneâs voice matters.
Benefits : An annual learning budget, company-pension scheme, company events, discounted USC membership, BVG public transport ticket, Lunch Benefit, Job Rad, e-Bike or e-Moped, Futurebens or monthly vouchers - the choice is yours. đ
About Us Weâre Germanyâs fastest-growing digital green energy provider and a Certified B Corpâą , driving the energy transition by making renewable energy more accessible and inclusive. How? Through variable tariffs, dynamic pricing, smart EV charging, heat pump and solar optimization, and Germanyâs first virtual power plant: NeoGridâą. At Ostrom, youâll work in a dynamic, open environment where you can be yourself, take on challenges, and grow both personally and professionally. đ±Environmental Impact: Each customer who switches to Ostrom on average helps offset 1.5 tons of CO2 emissions per year compared to the average German energy mix. đ VSOP: On top of offering a competitive salary you will have access to company shares to ensure you can truly be part of the journey. đ Trust-based Team : A truly flat hierarchy and transparent company culture, where everyoneâs voice matters. đȘđœ
Benefits: Du erhĂ€ltst ein flexibles Paket mit vielen Extras â von einem jĂ€hrlichen Weiterbildungsbudget, ĂŒber eine betriebliche Altersvorsorge, bis hin zu vergĂŒnstigten Fitnessstudio-Mitgliedschaften, einem Jobticket oder deinem eigenen E-Bike bzw. E-Roller. Alternativ wĂ€hlst du monatliche Gutscheine oder FutureBens â du entscheidest, was dir wichtig ist. đŹ Transparenz: Ob in wöchentlichen Townhalls, vierteljĂ€hrlichen Updates oder offenen Retrospektiven â wir glauben an klare Kommunikation und kontinuierlichen Austausch. đ€ Erfolge feiern wir gemeinsam: Teamarbeit steht bei uns im Mittelpunkt â und genauso feiern wir auch unsere Erfolge: mit regelmĂ€Ăigen Happy Hours, Team-AusflĂŒgen und unvergesslichen Company Events. đ Work you way: Ob im Berliner BĂŒro, im Homeoffice oder remote unter der Sonne â bei uns arbeitest du dort, wo du am produktivsten bist. đ Wachse mit uns: Persönliche Entwicklung ist bei Ostrom keine Floskel. Wir unterstĂŒtzen dich mit Lernbudgets und Raum zum Ausprobieren â damit du dich fachlich und persönlich kontinuierlich weiterentwickeln kannst.
