Senior UX Designer

Bitmovin provides API based software that powers the world's largest OTT online video providers with video developer tools, built by industry experts. We’re looking to hire an experienced and enthusiastic Senior User Interface/User Experience Designer who is comfortable owning the end-to-end user experience, reporting directly to our Head of Product. From requirements gathering and ideation through to build, launch and performance review, you will have a huge impact on the Bitmovin applications. It is important that you are able to clearly offer guidance on improving the user experience of our applications through design and performance optimisations. You will need to be comfortable with experimenting to discover the perfect user experience and work with others (both inside and outside of the business) to define and achieve this

Come join the team building innovative online video software for developers and content owners worldwide!

 As a hands-on, Senior UX Designer you will

• Translate complex business processes into an intuitive and elegant user and product experience, all the way to high fidelity mock-ups ready for development
• Assist in the development and evaluation of personas, user stories, and usability studies. Understand customer needs by driving customer/UX research and usability studies
• Create process flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups to effectively communicate design strategies and detailed interaction behaviours
• Provide guidance on improving the user experience of our applications through design and performance optimisations
• Lead cross-team conceptual development and design documentation partnering with PMs, engineers, business teams, and senior management
• Handle multiple projects in an agile, fast-paced environment
• Be the go-to member of the team for questions or queries on UI/UX

It would be great if you have

• Proven experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, or similar
• Experience working in B2B, enterprise products, internal tools, or SAAS environments
• Exceptional portfolio of work showing digital product design experience
• Solid understanding of UX and user-centric design processes with data-driven analytics capabilities
• Ability to influence others to set and achieve goals and deadlines
• Ability to prioritise and manage projects
• Excellent professional written and verbal communication skills

It would be even better if you have

• Experience with technical software products or API-based products
• Expertise with Figma 
• Experience in a product-led growth environment
• Technical background and experience in Online Video Streaming is a plus
  
  

You don’t have experience with all the points above? Don’t worry, we will support you with learning, training and coaching on the job.

Bitmovin's Worldwide Benefits

• Working with an innovative, fast-growing and international team with low hierarchy
• Opportunity to make an impact on the multimedia industry, with target markets EU, US and APAC
• Competitive salary
• Flexible working hours
• Home Office bonus
• Investment in growth and education
• Subscription to one of our customer’s streaming services 
• No routines, but new challenging projects with global impact
• Regular and fun company events and team activities (hackathons, summer party, …)
• Free choice of hardware
• Company holidays
• Volunteering Time Off 
• Seasonal gift package (swag)
• The opportunity to work for an exciting start-up, building innovative video solutions

Bitmovin’s Benefits in Austria and Germany

• Additional days off (bridge days)
• Hybrid work (home office / onsite flexibility)
• Sodexo - Lebensmittel Pass Card (Austria)  
• Bike leasing (Austria)
• Sponsorship of public transport  ticket (Austria)
• Lunch benefit ( Austria)
• Free snacks and drinks in our offices (Vienna, Klagenfurt and Berlin)

At Bitmovin we sincerely believe in the value that true diversity brings to a company. We diligently ensure our business, our people, our language and our actions do not discriminate against differences in race, religion, colour, origin, gender, sexual orientation, education, age, marital status, veteran status, disability and neurodiversity. Diversity is a part of our company character, thus we strive for the inclusion of diverse thought leadership to enhance the capability and uniqueness of our company proposition and culture. We launched our DEI group, the Tiger Team, to enhance our Diversity, Equality & Inclusivity agenda; bringing individuality to the forefront of our culture.

Bitmovin is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.  Bitmovin will happily consider qualified candidates returning to the workforce after a period of familycare, home work, or other interesting adventure or detour.

About Bitmovin

Bitmovin, a YCombinator company,  is a fast growing privately owned technology leader, located in San Francisco, CA and Klagenfurt, Austria.

The company was founded by the co-creators of international media standards like MPEG-DASH, that is used today by Netflix, Youtube, and others. Bitmovin is the technology leader in online video technologies such as cloud-based encoding, adaptive streaming players, 360°/VR streaming and performance analytics. Bitmovin is backed by top investors such as Atomico as well as industry leaders like the former VP Engineering of Netflix, former CTO of Cisco, founder of Unity3D, and many others. Bitmovin’s customers include the top media and technology companies worldwide, including discovery+, fuboTV, DAZN, BBC, RTL, RedBull Media House, Globo, ClassPass, The New York Times and many others.

Working at Bitmovin is fast-paced, fun and challenging with colleagues and customers worldwide.