About UP42
- Founded in 2019.
- Transforms how organizations order, access, and analyze Earth observation data.
- Platform brings together the world’s leading geospatial providers to access, manage, and process data at scale.
- Helps organizations across industries with solutions for vegetation management, infrastructure monitoring, and disaster response.
- Part of Neo Space Group since July 2025.
About the Role
- Joining the Design Team in Berlin.
- Design partner for one product team, working alongside a Product Manager and engineers.
- Owning projects from early idea through to delivery.
- Maintaining a high quality bar on complex, data-rich interfaces and working inside a Design System.
- This role offers real ownership of a product area without carrying a whole platform and involves going deep into a complex domain.
- The team is complementary, offering visible work and a short feedback loop.
What You'll Be Doing
- Taking design work from an early idea through to delivery and proposing solutions to blockers.
- Acting as the reliable design partner for the product team, serving as the primary contact for PMs and engineers.
- Designing for complexity, including dense data tables, long-running processes, and workflows.
- Using evidence to drive design by talking to users, reviewing support and sales knowledge, analyzing product usage, and running tests.
- Understanding the problem before designing a solution.
- Scoping features, breaking them into pieces, estimating timelines, and flagging delays early with a plan B.
- Contributing to the Design System by proposing and building components.
- Sharing work cross-functionally, taking feedback, and iterating.
What You'll Bring
Experience delivering product design work end-to-end inside a cross-functional team.
Solid interaction (IxD) and visual/UI design skills with the ability to make complex data and workflows understandable.
Strong Figma skills and a working understanding of how a Design System is built, including component structure, behavior, and rules.
Experience using research and product evidence to make design decisions, such as usability tests, customer conversations, support tickets, and product data.
Ability to distinguish between known information and assumptions.
Ability to work with ambiguity and adjust direction based on new learning.
Ability to scope work and communicate honestly about timelines.
A collaborative, feedback-driven, and proactive approach.
Fluency in English.
Based in Berlin with hybrid work capability.
Nice to Have
Experience designing geospatial, enterprise, or data-heavy B2B products.
Background in UX Research, Data Visualization, or complex workflow design.
Knowledge of Accessibility and Inclusive Design.
Experience with Interactive Prototyping.
Awareness of current AI tools and emerging opportunities in UX processes and how AI can enhance user outcomes.
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary package.
- Hybrid working model: choice of working from home, the office in Kreuzberg, or from a global location of choice up to 90 days per year.
- Wellbeing initiatives.
- Sponsored fitness subscriptions.
- Educational budget for personal development.
- Public transportation discount.
- Regular team events and global company parties twice a year.