Product Manager (with UI/UX Background)

Full-time · Vienna

Looking for an opportunity to learn, improve, face challenges and become an integral part of the product team of a fast-growing startup? As a product manager (with solid UI/UX skills) at Journi, you’ll be a key player in improving and further developing our products across all apps and platforms that are used by 5 million users!

➤ WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Work full time (38.5 h/w) and learn from a passionate, motivated and international team with a start-up spirit

• Take over a leading role as product manager by guiding an interdisciplinary product team

• Know all our products by heart as well as our competitors

• Be part of our OKR process and help define reachable key results & product milestones with other managers in the company

• Draft new features or improve existing ones based on: 

  • customer problems, market research and data

  • company needs: goals, vision & budget

• Plan & document those features/experiments

• Also act as User Interface & User Experience Designer within your cross functional team

• Gather technical requirements and estimate efforts together with a cross functional team or tech managers

• Ensure & support the successful execution of the product implementation, report about the project status & analyse the outcome

➤ YOUR BAG OF TRICKS

• Passion for mobile & web technology with strong interest in photo/printing/blogging apps

• University degree in UI/UX Design, Product Design, Product Management or similar 

• 1+ years of experience of managing projects in a digital management role and previous experience as a UX/UI designer

• Proven track record of various design projects and/or apps/products that have been developed (portfolio and/or links to projects required to apply)

• Mastery of design & management tools: especially Asana, Confluence, Amplitude, Figma (or similar)

• Ability to lead a team & manage several projects/tasks at once while maintaining a ‘big picture’ perspective

• You’re an EU citizen or have a working visa for Austria (unfortunately we aren’t able to support non-EU citizens for this position)

• You are able to relocate to or are based in Vienna - the world’s most liveable city!

➤ NICE TO HAVE (BUT NOT REQUIRED!)

• Cross-platform design experiences: Web, Responsive Web, Android, iOS 

• Familiar in creating and maintaining a component design system

• Experience with market research techniques, customer development etc.

➤ DESIRED PERSONALITY TRAITS

• Self-starter with a strong ‘hands-on’ mentality & passion for solving problems

• You are an untiring motivator with the ambition to bring out the best in a product team & inspire others

• You don’t shy away from public speaking, have strong communication and presentation skills

• You are constantly learning, don’t shy away to give and receive feedback, criticize respectfully, you are self-motivated, hungry to succeed and ready to challenge the status quo

➤ WHAT DO WE OFFER

A happy team makes for a happy workplace. We wouldn’t be able to do what we are doing without our team and that’s why we offer:

• A fair annual gross salary in accordance with the Collective Agreement, starting at EUR 52,000. Our final offer depends on your experience and qualifications amongst other factors.

• A bunch of awesome social benefits such as: 

  • Free yearly public transport card (Wiener Linien)

  • Private pension fund and the possibility to take out a favourable private health insurance policy 

  • In-house weekly German language lessons 

  • €2,000 personal development budget per employee per year 

  • Lunch vouchers worth €5,50 per day (useable 1,000+ restaurants across Vienna, as well as our downstairs cantine)

  • 25 vacation days per year, plus an extra day of holiday for each year working at Journi!

  • Monthly team activities & and 

    annual team trip

     to great destinations

  • As much as you can drink Italian portafilter coffee and a range of tee options

  • Fully functional kitchen in our office with access to healthy and organic foods 

• Work in a fun, bright and award-winning office - built by the Journi Team! Including ping-pong and foosball to blow off steam

• High-end computer (Mac) set-up and tools that will make you enjoy getting your work done

• Flexible working hours (with core hours: 10am-4pm Mo-Th; and 10am-2pm on Fr) 

• Be part of a team of highly motivated and like-minded individuals who you can learn from and want to learn from you too!

APPLY NOW!

Please include: CV, portfolio and motivation letter in your application :) 

What steps can you expect in the interview process: 

1. Screen call with the People & Culture team

2. Technical interview with the Design team

3. Challenge

4. Founders cultural fit interview