Junior Product Designer

We are looking for a Junior Product Designer to join our team on our ambitious and exciting journey to digitize and shape the future of financing global trade.
As a Product Designer, you will be responsible for delivering the best user experience and user interface. You will ensure that all elements of the user experience are optimized for improved usability, usefulness and exceptional visual design, which makes your role extremely important given that user satisfaction and loyalty are two important contributors to achieving our growth targets. You will be designing ideas using various methods and latest technology, as well as combine creativity with awareness of existing design elements.
To be successful in this role you must first and foremost have a passion for designing products that users love to use and that ease users’ daily work life. You rapidly understand complex concepts and workflows and can turn them into easy to understand visuals. You are an enthusiastic team player that is curious, flexible and open minded. You do not need to be right (all the time) and you always focus on finding the optimal solution to sometimes conflicting needs.
Responsibilities
Communicate with client representatives to understand user needs
Create wireframes and prototypes for new product ideas
Plan and implement new designs
Design graphic UI elements (i.e. menus, tabs, forms, and widgets)
Optimize existing UI and UX
Conduct ongoing user research

Experience
1-2 years’ experience as a product designer or similar
A design portfolio that you can share (showing your process and approach to design)
Hands-on experience with various design tools
Bachelor’s degree in Product design, Interaction design, Computer Science and/or other relevant field

Great if you also have:
Ability to think through complex interaction design and systems, rather than feature by feature.
Understanding of how design systems works and how to maintain a design library

Personal attributes
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to discuss and articulate design options
Detail oriented
Critical thinker
Problem solver and customer-centred

About Mitigram
Mitigram is one of the most exciting Fintech companies in the Nordics. Strong growth, among the world’s largest corporates and banks as our clients, and leading investors ensure we have a lot of exciting challenges and opportunities for anyone that joins at this stage.
Mitigram has developed a world leading online marketplace built for the Trade Finance community. Our product is recognized by thousands of individuals from Montevideo to Shanghai. We are the fastest growing Trade Finance network in the market, and we are looking for someone to help us drive our growth.
Trade Finance itself is the part of banking that supports trillions of dollars’ worth of trade every year, facilitating business between buyers and sellers across the globe. Without Trade Finance the world would literally stand still.
The Mitigram team is highly diverse with members from 15+ countries from leading institutions in trade, investment, risk management, software, security, and compliance.