Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- Application, UX/UI
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will design user-centric products in digital coaching, develop solutions for web and mobile, and enhance design quality through close collaboration with engineers and the design team.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- As a Senior Design Engineer (f/m/x), you will have a real impact on changing how companies transform mindsets and behaviors across their entire workforce globally.
- You will play a key role in contributing to the design and delivery of our hybrid human + AI coaching experience, and you will primarily be responsible for designing and shipping high-quality product experiences, and enabling our Product Engineers to build them consistently and at pace.
- You do this by supporting our client companies to drive their strategic initiatives and employee development initiatives by using Sharpist's unique approach primed with digital coaching cemented by a strong learner experience fuelled by our Sharpist apps.
- In your role you will design and ship solutions across our product - web and mobile learner app, coach and internal platforms, and enterprise client dashboard.
- You won't be boxed into one area: you work on whatever matters most in the moment, from the learner-facing moments people love to the workflows behind the scenes.
- Operating in the overlap between design and code, you own the full cycle - framing the problem, shaping the solution, prototyping in code, and often shipping it to production yourself, working closely with the lead designer and product engineers.
- A big part of this role is enablement.
- We already have a robust design system - components and patterns live in the codebase and Storybook - and a lead designer who owns the design vision.
- Your job is to close the gaps between design intent and what actually ships, and build the workflows and guardrails that let Product Engineers prototype and ship on-brand features without a designer in the loop for every change.
- Alongside the lead designer, you help raise the bar for the design quality of what engineering ships - through review, pairing, and shared standards.
- You also surface problems worth solving (from research, design gaps, and other signals) for the team to consider.
- You bring a forward-looking, AI-native approach to how we discover, prototype, validate, and ship, and you don't compromise on excellent craft.
- Within 1 month, you will get a complete understanding of our product surfaces beginning with learner mobile and web apps, and enterprise dashboard: who uses what, on which platform, and what success looks like.
- Machen Sie sich mit unserem Codebase und Front-End-Stack vertraut und bringen Sie Ihre ersten kleinen, optimierten Änderungen in die Produktion.
- Conduct a lightweight product + UX audit across the areas you influence, documenting gaps, friction points, and opportunities for improvement - including where our design language and components are inconsistent or missing.
- Learn how the product trio operates - how we identify problems, develop solutions, and run spikes - and begin sharing your own insights.
- Establish your AI-in-design-and-build workflow (e.g., research synthesis, prototyping acceleration, AI-assisted coding) and share it with the team so others can benefit.
- Within 1 quarter, you will own an end-to-end cycle: run discovery (or a design spike), translate insights into clear design decisions, and drive them through to delivery - building in the codebase alongside (or ahead of) the product engineers.
- Improve how our existing components and patterns get used in practice - making them easier to reach for, and helping Product Engineers build with them consistently and correctly.
- Help make our design quality bar explicit and shared with engineering, so it shows up consistently in what gets shipped.
- Introduce at least one AI-assisted workflow that improves speed and/or quality (for example: AI-accelerated synthesis of qualitative research, faster prototyping, or content exploration).
- Partner with engineering (who also own data) to define what to measure and how to validate impact.
- Within 1 year, you will take ownership across whichever product areas need you most, become a reliable source of well-framed problems for the trio, and help shape the vision for Sharpist's hybrid human + AI coaching experience.
- Create and standardize design patterns for our hybrid coaching experience (including conversational/adaptive AI interactions), while keeping the coach and learner in control.
- Build and own the workflows around our design system, so Product Engineers can ship on-brand, on-vision features fast - with a clear path to the right components, sensible guardrails, and shared standards.
- Raise the design quality of what engineering ships: lead by example, guide Product Engineers' delivery through crit and pairing, and help others build with clarity and confidence - in close partnership with the lead designer.
- And then, what's next? Use your product design engineering expertise to help shape the right direction for broader business impact.
- Extend your influence across the product - from the learner hybrid coaching experience to coach and enterprise surfaces, wherever the biggest opportunities are.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- A dual portfolio: strong UX and UI fundamentals and strong end-to-end thinking (problem framing, flow, interaction, visual execution), plus examples of front-end code and interfaces you've shipped to production.
- Proficiency building in production front-end code (React / TypeScript / CSS), with a focus on interaction, polish, and performance - comfortable owning a change from Figma through to a merged PR.
- Comfort working with an established design system in code - applying its components and patterns well, spotting where they fall short, and keeping design and build in sync.
- An AI-native workflow: you routinely use AI to accelerate your process (research synthesis, prototyping, coding, content exploration) in a way that improves quality, not just speed.
- Comfort owning the end-to-end cycle in a lean product trio (lead designer, lead engineer, senior front-end engineer) with no PM layer - iterating quickly, sometimes side-by-side with engineering, sometimes shipping it yourself.
- A track record of proactively identifying problems worth solving, not only executing on a defined brief.
- Proficiency with Figma.
- Strong writing and communication skills in English.
- Based in Berlin or willing to relocate (hybrid working model).
- Vertrautheit mit Motion/Animation, Design Tokens, Storybook oder Komponenten-Tools.
- Komfort im Umgang mit Low-Code / No-Code und AI Build-Tools als Mittel, um schneller zu liefern und Prototypen zu erstellen.
- Great presentation skills and confidence when engaging with decision-makers.
- German language skills are a plus.
Experience
- 5+ years spanning product design and front-end engineering - you both design and ship (ideally across mobile and web).
- Bevorzugte Qualifikationen umfassen Erfahrung im Design (oder fundierte Meinungen) zu konversationellen / LLM-basierten Erfahrungen und den UX-Mustern, die sie erfordern.
- Experience helping raise the design/quality bar for other people's delivery - through review, crit, pairing, or design-system contribution - as an individual contributor rather than a manager.
- Experience with Tech/SaaS and L&D/HR.
- Experience designing B2B/enterprise dashboards or data-heavy interfaces.
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What we offer
- Unlimited Coaching Sessions: Access certified coaches to support your personal and professional growth whenever you need it.
- Hybrid Working Mode: Enjoy the flexibility of working both remotely and on-site.
- Company Pension Scheme (bAV): Plan for your future with our attractive retirement savings program.
- Jährliches Weiterbildungsbudget: Investieren Sie in Ihre Entwicklung mit einem festen Budget für Kurse, Workshops und Zertifizierungen.
- Free drinks, snacks, and fruits: Stay energized and fueled throughout the day with complimentary refreshments.
- Quarterly Magnetic Week: Connect with your colleagues during fun-filled events designed to inspire and engage.
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Sharpist GmbH
Sharpist GmbH offers innovative digital platforms for coaching and personal development. The company promotes the professional and personal growth of employees through individualized 1:1 coaching.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Education System
Senior Design Engineer
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
