Product Designer (all genders)

About the Role:

Join GROPYUS as a Product Designer and step into the future of digital construction. You'll design solutions that connect advanced manufacturing with construction execution, making complex processes, from the factory floor to the building site, intuitive, human-centered, and impactful.

We're seeking a designer who is curious, hands-on, and eager to grow. Someone who thrives at the intersection of digital tools, construction methods, and human workflows, and who wants to turn data, insights, and prototypes into solutions tested directly in the field.

In this role, you'll expand your responsibility and ownership, working closely with expert engineers and a product manager who advocates for the user. You'll observe operations, gather feedback, and translate insights into design solutions that support both today's projects and tomorrow's vision of autonomous construction.

What we value most: a mindset of curiosity and collaboration. Someone who takes initiative, asks sharp questions, and helps align cross-functional teams around clear, evidence-based design.

What makes this role unique:

• Direct impact on how construction is executed through design.
• Bridge between digital factory tools and advanced construction methods.
• Work alongside seasoned engineers and a user advocate Product Manager.
• Designs that are tested directly in live operations and projects.

What To Expect:

• Take ownership of the design of your product.
• Advocate user-centered design approaches by running usability and concept testing with real users in live operations.
• Translate complex flows into clear, tested design solutions.
• Collaborate effectively with design, product management, research and insights, and engineering teams.
• Contribute to our GROPYUS Design Language System, ensuring consistency as we develop new components and interaction models.
• Share your work openly, give and receive feedback to foster a collaborative, growth-oriented design culture.
• Opportunity to expand your expertise and take on greater responsibility as the technology evolves.

What You Bring:

Experience and Skills

• Degree in Product, Interaction, Visual Design, related Design disciplines, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 4 years of proven product design experience, ideally within a startup or entrepreneurial setting.
• Demonstrated expertise in responsive digital design, visual design principles, and prototyping techniques.
• Demonstrated proficiency working within and contributing to a structured Design System, including component governance, token usage, and maintaining consistency at scale.
• Comfort using AI-assisted tools (e.g. Claude Code, Nano Banana, etc) to support research synthesis, rapid ideation, and workflow efficiency, with a genuine curiosity to keep evolving how they are used to disclose individual and team potential.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills in English; German language proficiency at B2 level or above is required.
• A strong portfolio showcasing high-quality UX/UI design work (see note below about Portfolio).

Personal Attributes

• Passion for design excellence, continuous growth, and a feedback-first culture.
• Proactive mindset with a strong sense of ownership and positive attitude.
• Pragmatic problem solver with analytical, data-driven thinking.
• Adaptability in fast-changing and uncertain environments.
• Resilience in the face of challenges, maintaining focus and progress.
• Curious to ask, explore, and turn complex systems into intuitive experiences.

Portfolio

Please share a link to your portfolio - this is the most critical asset you can provide as a designer. Only apply if your portfolio has:

• Recent Work Samples (not full case studies) - We want to see final outcomes of your design work. Focus on polished, high-quality fidelity prototypes or flow videos you are proud of
• Clear Impact - Demonstrate how users interact with what you've built. Communicate what you worked on, why it mattered, and the impact it had.
• Include a range of work to show your versatility, with a focus on the past 3 years.

NB: If your portfolio is password-protected, be sure to include the password in your application.