Product Designer

Welcome to our fabulous world(e)🍴We are TheFork(e)Our mission is to bring happiness through amazing dining experiences, thanks to our 3 main products:  

📱 TheFork App: the restaurant discovery and booking app for every occasion 

🖥️ TheFork Manager: the tool to digitize restaurant operations and be in full control of your business 

💳 TheFork Pay & gift cards: the new and amazing dining payment experience 

Creator of a unique model that disrupted the restaurant industry 15 years ago, we are now the leading dining platform across Europe and Australia(e)We are experiencing an exciting period of growth, and we need the greatest folks onboard(e)Together, we will make our wildest dreams come true! We strongly believe that our mission can only be achieved if we also bring happiness to our working environment(e)We do this by providing a flexible, multiculturaland positive environment where each individual has the space to grow. 

We nurture this happy culture through our core values: We are better together -We act like an owner - We genuinely care for our users and customers - We believe in transparency - We never stop learning - Speed wins 

Oh! And we are also part of the big Tripadvisor family ❤️ 

With love, 

Your future buddies, the Forkies. 

The Role

TheFork is taking ambitious steps towards becoming a digital product focused organization(e)This means we need to develop a strong and reputable Product Design & Research organization to ensure a cohesive experience across our channels and touchpoint, for all our customer-types worldwide.

The job of a Product Designer is to envision how people experience our products and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined and even magical(e)As Product Designer at TheFork, you’ll discover opportunities to transform them into intuitive, accessible and easy-to-use experiences(e)Ideally, you have worked in a collaborative team environment and have experience interacting with multinational colleagues(e)This role demands constant evolution and adaptation as the product, market, and consumer needs evolve.

What will you do ?

• Understand the different approaches to user research and actively stay informed about new techniques and the pros and cons behind them
• Explore different ways to solve design problems and successfully identify the best solution 
• Identify ways to innovate in micro-interactions on digital products and experiences
• Effectively bridge design and engineering through your understanding of front-end development
• Help create user typologies, user journey maps, usability tests, and other user research methodologies
• Work on a range of interaction models and apply it to thinking about user flows through an experience
• Collaborate with Senior/Lead Designers and Product Managers in defining the product strategy
• Help evolve brand style guidelines and design systems 
• Promote the importance of UI copy 
• Apply motion theory and principles in your work, especially in prototyping
• Present your work in an engaging, clear, thoughtful manner

Who are you ?

• Roughly 1 to 4+ years experience working as Product Designer 
• Proficiency with Figma
• Front-end development skills are a plus, but not required
• Communication: you effectively interact with others to build relationships, influence, and facilitate the sharing of ideas and information(e)You use tact and diplomacy to navigate difficult situations
• Learning Mindset: you continuously seek opportunities to learn, question the applicability of past approaches in the current environment, own growth, and embrace failure as a learning opportunity
• Results-oriented: you have the ability and willingness to make continuous improvements(e)Also the commitment to help make positive leaps in results and overall performance
• Teamwork & Collaboration: you value diverse perspectives and working with others as a way to achieve the best output possible

What we offer you:

•       😄 An awesome team (not everybody like our jokes, but we try our best) 
•       🏠 A Permanent contract (that can be useful in life) 
•       ⚖️ Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week) 
•       💚 Complementary time off to spend with your loved ones 
•       💸 Competitive fixed salary, bonus and equity (yes, equity!) 
•       🍕 Lunch vouchers available for each working day (because yes, we like to try our best restaurants)  
•       🌎 International teams - More than 30 nationalities and 16 offices worldwide 
•       🏳️‍🌈 Highly inclusive working environment 
•       🤸‍♀️ Lifestyle benefits that can be used to reimburse physical, leisure activities, family support, travel etc 
•       🎓 Continuous learning and development programs (with full access to LinkedIn Learning!) 
•       👶 Financial benefits in the events of a birth, adoption, pacs, or wedding  
•       😌 Free access to the Calm app  
•       🏡 Housing assistance plan to help find accommodations, or with repairs for your home 
•       🏥 72% of health insurance fully covered by the company 
•       👩‍🦽 Life Insurance and Disability at no cost to the employee  
•       🍴 Amazing offices with dining, coffee point on each floor, and leisure area    
•       🎤 Team building events (we love karaoke(e)A lot(e)A lot.) 

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