Lead Product Designer

About Optiml

Optiml is revolutionizing real estate with our Real Estate Decision Intelligence (REDI) software—a new category of AI-powered technology that helps decarbonize buildings while optimizing asset & portfolio performance.

Since our launch in April 2024, we have been scaling across Europe and the US, receiving significant industry recognition and winning three major PropTech awards, including:
🏆 2024 ULI Europe PropTech of the Year
🏆 2024 ZIA PropTech of the Year

We are backed by $6M in pre-seed funding from top-tier US and EU funds, including Innovation Endeavors (the fund of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt), Planet A, BitStone, and Kompas.

Tasks

• Lead design and user experience (UX) for parts of our core product
• Ship deliverables (prototypes, UX flows, wireframes, UI mockups) to communicate and experiment with ideas
• Partner with team leads to prioritize initiatives in the roadmap
• Break down ambiguous problems & prioritize high impact work given some resource constraints
• Empathize with enterprise customers, impersonate them, identify their pain points and advocate to address them on a continual basis
• Distill insights from all parts of the organization into updated beliefs and eventually design principles
• Shape the design practice within the organization (documentation, workflows, frameworks) to support all design collaborators (Remote included)

Requirements

Who we are looking for

• Embrace Challenges: You prioritize speed and flexibility, adept at making swift compromises to maintain momentum.
• Push The Limits: You are able to quickly and efficiently execute tasks, demonstrating strong initiative and self-drive.
• Inspire Others: You bring kindness and humor to the team, enhancing both morale and collaboration.
• Champion The Customer: Your meticulous attention to detail ensures excellence in product aesthetics and functionality.

Must have

• 5+ years of experience in tech/startup company
• Extraordinary visual design skills and strong understanding of UX principles
• Proven experience designing data rich enterprise applications
• Ability to interface with business stakeholders
• Strong leadership & communication skills, capable of framing design decisions with clarity and intent.
• Strong collaboration skills with product teams shipping software
• Experience with prototyping

Nice to have:

• Experience in Service Design Thinking and Customer Experience (CX)
• Understanding of software engineering workflows
• Experience with user interviews, user testings or UX research

Benefits

• Direct impact on the product and go-to-market direction of Optiml
• Unique opportunity to learn: try, fail, iterate, and build new skills every day - in a culture that values growth & development individually and as a team
• Learning and development budget of CHF 1k (conferences, certificates, etc.).
• Shit happens: 100% accident non-occupational accident insurance (UVG) covered.
• Flexible parental leave.

Please include your design portfolio in the application

Optiml is revolutionizing real estate with our Real Estate Decision Intelligence (REDI) software—a new category of AI-powered technology that helps decarbonize buildings while optimizing asset performance.

The AI-powered platform bridges the gap between the asset, portfolio, and sustainability levels, simplifying a manager's complex decision-making when decarbonizing and prioritizing investment in assets and portfolios, down to Optiml develops renovation action plans on the component & system level, considering individual targets, as well as ensuring regulations.

Since our launch in April 2024, we have been scaling across Europe and the US, receiving significant industry recognition and winning three major PropTech awards, including:

🏆 2024 ULI Europe PropTech of the Year
🏆 2024 ZIA PropTech of the Year

We are backed by $6M in pre-seed funding from top-tier US and EU funds, including Innovation Endeavors (the fund of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt), Planet A, BitStone, and Kompas.