UI/UX Designer (all genders)

Working with us means believing in the future; in the great people who are shaping it together every day and in the wide-ranging career paths it opens up. #believeinyourself

Erste Group was founded in 1819 as the first Austrian savings bank and today it is one of the largest banking groups in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). As an attractive employer, Erste Group offers interesting career opportunities in an international environment.

Join us in our agile environment and make banking simple, intelligent, and personal!

We're looking for a driven, experienced UI/UX Designer to refine George’s simplicity and apply it to new, amazing user experiences. There are a bunch of new George projects in the pipeline, and we have an ongoing cycle of revamping our existing experience across web and mobile. There are lots of Design challenges and tons of pixels for you to push.

Your Tasks

• Work with a fast-moving, multidisciplinary product team, collaborating closely with engineers, product managers, writers, researchers, and QA engineers to ship great work. Your contributions impact the entire platform and an ever-growing customer base.
• Use your full range of skills from product design, interaction design, and visual design to evolve and maintain Component Libraries and documentation in collaboration with other designers for our Design System.
• Understand the user and business needs, gather requirements, and translate them into effortless user journeys and interfaces. Banking may be complex, but interacting with George and Erste Bank has to be delightful and easy.

Your Background

• Hands-on professional UX-related work experience, ideally with software or complex web/app-based applications, visual design and a portfolio that showcases your best projects.
• Personal and professional drive to shape the product from a UI/UX viewpoint and passion about quality, usability, and simplicity.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills. You're comfortable working closely with developers and product managers and know how to work in a team environment to deliver on customer and business value.
• Good knowledge of established UI/UX patterns and how to translate them across multiple platforms to guarantee a frictionless experience for all our customers.
• The skills to execute all design stages from conceptualization to final hand-off to the Engineering team. We love making things easy-to-use while beautiful and hope you feel the same.
• Values and opinions and the ability to articulate them in fluent English.
• Belief in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust.

Our Offer

• We provide an encouraging, empathic, friendly, and professional environment, with all the hardware & software you need to work efficiently (e.g. MacBook, mobile device, licenses).
• Our attitude is open-minded, and we are always keen to stand up and go the extra mile for the correct solution.
• We care for your personal well-being and career development while actively supporting your educational needs.
• Discover and enjoy the benefits of Erste Group.
• The minimum wage for this full-time position in accordance with the collective agreement with complete fulfillment of the functional profile is EUR 43.554,00 gross per year. But this is just a formality - we would be happy to talk about your actual salary in person! 
• We offer our employees the opportunity to divide their hours between working from home and at the office.
• We consider the diversity of our employees as key to innovation and success. As employer we are proud to offer everyone equal chances, irrespective of age, skin colour, religious belief, gender, sexual orientation or origin.