Head of UX

At Benify, we help companies around the world become better employers by attracting, rewarding and strengthening the relationship with their employees. Since 2004, as a fast-growing HR-tech company, we have revolutionised the industry and the way to work with benefits and improve communication with employees. Our vision is a world where every employee knows their true value. Our mission is to deliver technology that helps great employers become exceptional ones.

Through our tailor-made portal, employers around the world can, among other things enhance better communication with their employees, better benefits offerings, and onboard new employees in a more efficient and digital way. With us, you get the chance to influence not only an organisation's internal work but also the well-being of its employees and the relationship with their employer.

We are on an exciting growth journey and are now looking for a Head of UX that will lead, support and develop our User Experience team to reach both short- and long term goals!

Main responsibilities

As a Head of UX, your main responsibility will be to set the strategic direction for our UX function, consisting of 5 ambitious interaction designers and user researchers that love having fun at work. The team are responsible to ensure a great journey and experience for our users while using our platform, both for the app and web, as well as identifying strategic improvement for Benify’s platform vision. Due to a continuously changing consumer preference, you will constantly modify and communicate the vision in order to deliver the next paradigm in customer experience to always keep the business’s product relevant and engaging.

In this role, you will develop the competence, ways of working and create a foundation where employees can thrive, grow and have the support needed to succeed with efficient delivery within the area. Additionally, you will be a part of our R&D management team consisting of UX, Product Management and Engineering where you will set the strategy, vision and roadmap for the product development to achieve our company goal.

In the position as a Head of UX, you will for instance:

• Be responsible for the vision, ways of working and strategic improvements for the UX function
• Making sure to keep the business’s product relevant and engaging to the consumers
• Continuous performance management, wage-setting and annual salary review
• Develop the team, which includes recruiting, hiring and training of new team members- to ensure a winning team through meaningful performance and talent development

This is what we are looking for

You are an analytical and driven person with a passion for great UX design who also enjoys a fast paced working environment. As a leader you are a great cultural role model and can create an environment that is positive and inspiring, with an interest in developing, listening and coaching the people in your team. You have an ability to drive a team through complex projects in large business settings and disciplines with a mindset to always improve ways of working. Additionally, you have strong communication skills and can clearly get a message across both with employees and stakeholders.

To succeed in this role, we also see that you have:

• Relevant educational background within UX, Marketing, Design or similar
• A few years’ experience from a leading position within information architecture, user experience, interaction design or similar
• Hands on experience working either as a Visual designer, Interaction Designer or UX Researcher in a product industry. Preferably from B2B
• Fluent in English (written and spoken). Swedish is a plus

Sound interesting? This is what we can offer you!

At Benify, you get the opportunity to work at an organisation where everyone contributes to our success, where everyone helps each other and has fun while doing it. We know that it is our employees who make Benify successful. We not only welcome your ideas, but we also encourage them. Your development is up to you - your initiative, drive, and curiosity are all key factors to your development at Benify, where the opportunities are limitless.

Being experts in benefits, we offer great perks, including access to our benefits platform, a generous health and wellness contribution, flexible working, company innovation days, and conferences. Not only that, you'll also quickly become part of our incredible and collaborative culture!

Practical information
Start: As soon as we find our perfect match!
Location: Gothenburg. We offer a hybrid workplace
Extent: Full time

Sounds like a good match? Ready to make an impact? Great!

Apply by sending your CV and/or your LinkedIn profile using the application form below. We screen applications continuously and may hire someone before the last application date, so make sure you apply today. Personality and logical tests are applied in this recruitment process.

If you have any questions about the role, or want to find out more what it’s like to work at Benify, please contact josefin.bjorkman@benify.com (Talent Acquisition) or karl-johan.enlund@benify.com (Head of Product).