UX/UI Designer

🍇 About grape:

Our entrepreneurial spirit drives us in what we do and what we are passionate about. Our mission is to become the premier health partner in the insurance business. Recognising the need for innovation in the traditional employee insurance model we are set to revolutionize the employee insurance industry. We help companies support people before and after they get sick and to make more of their time. Our insurance solutions reduce monotonous and manual work for employees, doctors, HR & payroll managers. As we strive to lead a technology-driven transformation, we put employees first.

At grape we pride ourselves on our people and our culture. We continue to grow fast and that’s where you come in. Our team is dynamic, diverse and full of creative ideas. Want to join? We can’t wait to get to know you!

🚀 Your role:

As a UX/UI Designer at grape, you will be at the heart of our innovation, collaborating with a dynamic, interdisciplinary team to design the User Experience for our web-based products.

The Product Team is at the heart of the companies innovation and is empowered to explore new ideas and have a significant impact on the company's future.

🔍 What you’ll do:

• Improving and making our platform usable, enjoyable, and accessible.
• Design pixel-perfect User Interfaces for our platform.
• Create interactive prototypes that address customer problems and create solutions (we use mostly Figma)
• Stakeholder management: Working together with Customer Success and Product Manager to conduct User Research and Usability Testing sessions with our clients
• Supporting on implementing customized experiences and understand product specifications
• Work closely with our Frontend & Backend Engineers to manage and develop grape’s Design System
• Create a hand-off ready design files for our Frontend Engineers
• Improve and document interaction patterns and components in grape’s Design System to insure Consistency and Accessibility on our Platform
• Product performance metrics and tracking improvements
  
  

🛠️ What you’ll need:

• At least 5+ years of experience in User Experience or Interaction Design preferably for B2B SaaS products
• Ability to creatively solve problems while maintaining focus on the overall business strategy and long-term goals
• Experience working closely with engineering teams
• Strong visual design skills
• Good knowledge in Figma, designing with components and design tokens
• Excellent communication skills, both with internal teams and customers
• Proficient in English and German
  
  

🤝 What we offer in return:

• Empowering workplace: Join a passionate team and an empowering workplace where you are given the ownership, tools, and support to make decisions and take initiative. Together we grow and build innovative solutions.
• Hybrid setup: Enjoy the flexibility of our hybrid work setup, with the freedom to work remotely or from our offices in Basel and Zurich. On Thursdays, our team day, we meet together in our Zurich office.
• Salary: A competitive compensation package with the opportunity to obtain phantom stocks options.
• Results-Oriented Work Environment: In a full time (5 days per week/42 hours), we encourage you to focus on objectives and delivering high-quality work rather than sticking to a fixed schedule.
• Learn & Grow: We support you in improving your skills, acquiring new knowledge and advancing your career. We also allocate a CHF 1'500.- budget annually.
• Wellbeing: Work-life balance is important to us and we foster a supportive work environment. You will have access to 12 mental health sessions per year.
• Leave: Enjoy 5 weeks of annual leave (25 days) of paid vacation and 9 public holidays.
• Travel Support: We will provide you with a SBB half-fare card.
• Relocation Support: We aim to make the transition as smooth as possible. If you are relocating from the EU we will cover your relocation costs and visa.
• Social gatherings: Together we have fun at our monthly team events and bi-annual team retreats.
  
  

🏁 How we hire:

When making a hiring decision, we look for a match in four main areas: skills and technical abilities, mindset & values and we assess them in the following three steps.

Step 1 - Your Application: Our talent acquisition team and hiring manager will review your application and respond within one week.

Step 2 - Your Motivation: We'll invite you to a 30-minute motivational chat with our talent acquisition team so we can get to know each other better.

Step 3 - Your Role & Culture Fit: You’ll have two more interviews to confirm your fit for the selected role and our culture. In case of highly technical roles we’ll additionally assess the specific skills you’ll need for your role.

A variety of experiences, perspectives, and voices make us the company we are and we’d love to hear about yours!