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Yaak
Lead Product Designer
Berlin/Hybrid & Remote
Full Time

LOCATION

Berlin/Hybrid & Remote

SALARY

JOB ADDED

2 years ago

What is Yaak πŸ€”

Yaak is developing a driver coaching platform (SafetyOS) that prioritizes safety. Partnering with our driving school customers around the world, we codify into SafetyOS their decades of experience in scoring, detecting, explaining and correcting human driving. We actually don’t do anything with yaks.

Why human driving?

The year 2007 heralded new possibilities in autonomous driving. The excitement wasn’t unfounded of course. We had solved driving in the rugged terrain of the Mojave Desert, with no internet connection and without supervision. Full Self-Driving seemed like a few years away. A decade, a deep learning revolution, and many $B later we are still waiting for it, if/when it’s unaffordable.

At Yaak we asked ourselves how to go about building AI that is provably safe. How can we bake trust into it from grounds up? Instead of building a classic AV stack, why not build a safety-first driving platform that can score, detect, explain and correct human driving with high precision before it’s allowed on public roads.

The Role ✍🏽

At Yaak, seamless user experience is the supreme ruler and you are its greatest disciple and advocate. We believe that a well designed product is usable, accessible and inspires excitement in its user, no matter if that person is a novice or expert.

At Yaak you’d:

  • Catapult an industry that has seen minimal innovation into the 21st century
  • Introduce VR and data products to our customers
  • Craft UI/UX for Yaak’s customer facing iOS/Android app internal tools
  • Make Yaak’s VR and AI products a seamless part of a driving instructor’s work day
  • Help to unify the design language across all of our product palette, which consists of mobile apps, VR simulation and web tools

What is product design at Yaak?

We were tired of explaining UI and UX to our parents, so this was our solution.

Kidding.

Product design at Yaak is the epicenter where we tie together customer interaction with in-vehicle hardware, virtual reality and SafetyOS.

As a Lead Product Designer you will:

  • Design a frictionless UI/UX for our VR driving simulator, as well as for the web and mobile tools that interface with it
  • Lead user research and testing for on-road and VR driver training, mobile apps and internal tools
  • Lead and mentor other product designers in your team
  • Participate in product strategy with biz dev and product management team
  • Collaborate with engineers, researchers and product managers
  • Communicate a product’s progress at various stages using user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes
  • Take ownership of the attention to detail and creativity of your projects

Qualifications πŸ‘©β€πŸ’» πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

You won’t see hard requirements here for certain degrees or exact years of experience because we know everyone has their own unique journey. If you’re brilliant at your craft, and are either an experienced collaborator or motivated to learn and excel at it, we’ll know it when we see it.

You have

  • Been around the block at least a few years
  • A portfolio demonstrating multiple digital products with an emphasis on mobile/VR gaming
  • Experience with UI/UX design work in the games industry
  • Experience collaborating with other designers, engineers, researchers and product managers
  • Experience designing for iOS, Android and web
  • Experience with user testing and following user-centered design processes
  • High proficiency working with Adobe CC and Figma
  • Shown comfort working and communicating in English

Big πŸ‘ for:

  • Experience designing UI/UX flows for VR applications
  • Relevant participation in the design of companion apps for games, or other cross-domain design experience
  • Experience leading a design project and/or team
  • Experience designing and maintaining a large design system
  • Experience with data driven design processes based on user analytics
  • Experience designing complex desktop and/or mobile tools
  • Experience designing and personally conducting user testing
  • Experience in articulately communicating design solutions to different audiences

Bonus 🌟 for points:

  • Relevant participation in one or more shipped 3d or VR games
  • Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and JS

Perks

  • Competitive compensation package with employee stock options program
  • Yearly public transport ticket and mobility bonus
  • Flexible work-from-home policy (even when the world is pandemic-free)
  • Quarterly off-site somewhere in the world, to regroup with the team and plan
  • Work in an international team full of talented, chill and cooky people
  • Visa and relocation support

Distributed-first perks

  • Free access to corporate apartment in Berlin (Yaak HQ)
  • Company credit card for managing regular travel to Yaak HQ

Diversity in Tech πŸ€—

Yaak is committed to fostering diversity and inclusion. We want you on our team β€” no matter your ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, or if you’re currently parenting the next world leader. It’s our belief that the best work gets done when one feels appreciated, supported and are their most authentic self.