UX/UI Designer / Product Designer (m/f/d)
Mentions vibe coding and rapid prototyping; encourages AI-assisted design workflows for faster iteration.
About the Role
Placetel is hiring a UX/UI / Product Designer to craft intuitive, high-quality interfaces and end-to-end customer experiences for their AI-native SaaS communication products. The role focuses on translating complex requirements into clear UX/UI solutions, evolving the design system, and integrating AI-assisted workflows and rapid prototyping into the product design process.
Job Description
Role
Placetel seeks a UX/UI Designer / Product Designer to join the Digital & Growth Team and define how users experience their AI-native SaaS communication products across websites, product interfaces, and self-service journeys. The role emphasizes creating clarity, usability, and visual quality while exploring AI-supported design workflows and rapid prototyping.
Key Responsibilities
- Design intuitive, visually strong user experiences across web, product interfaces, and digital self-service journeys.
- Turn complex requirements into clear UX and UI solutions, including user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity screens, and interactive prototypes.
- Use modern design and prototyping tools and AI-supported workflows to explore ideas, test assumptions, and accelerate iteration.
- Continuously improve experiences with attention to usability, accessibility, performance, and visual quality.
- Collaborate closely with product owners, developers, and marketing to move concepts from idea to implementation.
- Help evolve and maintain the design system to ensure consistency across digital touchpoints.
Requirements
- Minimum 3+ years of UX/UI or product design experience, preferably in SaaS or B2B environments.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating user-centered design and measurable impact.
- Excellent visual design skills, attention to detail, and interaction design sensibility.
- Ability to translate complex product requirements into well-crafted design solutions.
- Curiosity and practical experience with AI-based design tools and modern prototyping workflows.
- Experience or interest in rapid prototyping, vibe coding, and AI-assisted exploration.
- Confidence using modern design/prototyping tools such as Figma.
- Collaborative, feedback-oriented mindset and ownership over design outcomes.
- Fluent German and ability to communicate clearly in English.
Benefits
- Remote-first setup with flexible working hours.
- Centrally located office in Cologne’s Südstadt with modern workspaces.
- Regular team events and a collaborative, interdisciplinary team.
- Flat hierarchies, high degree of ownership, and a stable role within a growing company.
- Office perks including free water, coffee, and fruit.
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Benefits
- •Remote-first setup
- •Flexible working hours
- •Centrally located office in Cologne’s Südstadt
- •Modern workspaces
- •Free water, coffee, and fruit
- •Regular team events
- •Flat hierarchies
- •High degree of freedom and ownership
- •Interdisciplinary team
- •Stable employment