Senior UX Designer - Basel
About Unblu
Unblu helps the world's leading banks and insurance companies deliver conversational finance solutions. We provide highly secure engagement and collaboration software, enabling financial institutions to enrich the digital experience of their clients.
By choosing a career with Unblu you choose to join an international, and innovation-savvy company. With our head office situated in Basel, Switzerland and additional offices in Bulgaria, Germany, the UK, Canada and the USA, you’ll be joining an international team dedicated to shaping the future of digital engagement. While Unblu is run as an independent company with global scope, we are fortunate to have Swiss Post as our anchor shareholder, providing long term support and vision to the company.
The Role
We are looking for a self-directed, oriented mindset Senior UX Designer to join Unblu's R&D team. This is a senior, independent contributor role for a full-stack designer who can own end-to-end UX initiatives (from research, high-fidelity design through implementation and validation).
If you would like to be part of a growing and modern company, you are a team player, and you appreciate the opportunity to contribute to the digital future of the financial services industry, then this role is for you! We are looking for the best in the industry and reward for performance.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end UX design processes, from discovery, ideation, delivery through implementation and validation
- Translate complex concepts into intuitive, usable experiences for multiple personas
- Influence product decisions using UX best practices, established design patterns, and research insights
- Collaborate closely with Engineering to design solutions that are effective, efficient, feasible, and scalable
- Comfortable engaging directly with customers to understand their needs, pain points, and gather insights to apply to the product
- Develop usability test plans, scripts, and scenarios
- Ensure designs are responsive, adaptive, accessible, and consistent across desktop and mobile platforms
- Contribute to and help scale design systems, patterns, and guidelines
- Mentor and guide other designers, fostering growth, collaboration, and design excellence within the team
Requirements
Education & experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 5+ years of UX/UI product design experience, ideally in a B2B SaaS environment
- Proven experience delivering end-to-end workflows and scalable design systems in production
- Strong portfolio piece demonstrating UX and UI work along the cycle
Education & experience
- Advanced proficiency in Figma, including complex components, variants, and interactive prototypes
- Hands-on experience conducting user research and translating insights into impactful design solutions
- Experience with remote moderated and unmoderated usability testing
- Strong grasp of user-centered design principles, interaction patterns, and current web/app/mobile design trends
- Experience designing responsive, adaptive, and accessible interfaces across web, desktop, iOS, and Android
- Solid understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.0 AA), inclusive design, and localization
Language requirements
- Professional fluency in English is required; proficiency in German is a plus
Technical & collaboration skills
- Strong collaboration skills with Engineering to ensure feasibility, edge-case handling, and high-quality implementation
- Familiarity with front-end development concepts (HTML, CSS, etc.)
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Benefits
- An interesting and unique role in the R&D team in the world's leading live collaboration software manufacturer
- Work in a diverse environment: 30+ nationalities across 8 locations
- Competitive salary, 5-week holiday, and great referral bonuses
- Flexible working hours and a hybrid working environment
- A fantastic opportunity to learn while having access to all the latest tools and equipment
- Build your brand in an up-and-coming field of innovation
- Our office in Basel is next to the main railway station
Make sure to have a look at our Glassdoor page too - it will give you more insights into what it is like to work for us.
Unblu is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We use Workable as our recruitment platform, which utilizes AI to help categorize and organize applications. However, every application is carefully reviewed by our HR team. We respect and seek to empower each individual and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills, and experiences within our workforce. Please note that due to the nature of our business, all new joiners will have to complete a detailed background check, further information can be requested.