Product Designer
Role Overview
This is a mid to senior-level Product Designer role where you will design and improve user experiences for Algrano's coffee marketplace, focusing on areas like coffee discovery and inventory management. You will work closely with a 7-person Product team, including the Head of Design and Engineering, to turn ambiguous problems into clear interfaces and implement designs using HTML and SCSS within a Ruby on Rails application. Your impact will involve shaping key marketplace features and evolving the design system to enhance product consistency and quality.
Perks & Benefits
The role offers a fully remote setup with flexible working hours, ideal for candidates based in Latin America or East Africa, and includes regular team gatherings in Zurich, Switzerland. Benefits include a mission-driven environment focused on empowering coffee growers and roasters, a diverse team with cultural variety, and opportunities for career growth through new challenges and responsibilities. Additional perks include yearly conferences, a learning budget, and company off-sites in Europe, fostering a collaborative and supportive culture.
Full Job Description
Headquarters: Zurich URL: https://www.algrano.com/
At Algrano, we re building the platform where independent coffee producers and roasters trade green coffee more transparently and efficiently. We help roasters discover and buy great coffee, and we help producers reach new customers and grow stronger, longer-term relationships. As a Product Designer, you ll be part of our Product team (7 people), working closely with our Head of Design, Head of Product and CTO. You ll help shape and improve the experience across key parts of the marketplace, including coffee discovery, the offers system, and inventory management and implement them alongside the Engineering team. We use an adapted agile process (Shape Up methodology) to focus on impactful work, deliver high quality, and get things done. Algrano is a Ruby on Rails web application, and design at Algrano is highly collaborative. You ll work closely with engineering to ship thoughtful, well-crafted interfaces. Depending on your strengths, interests, and business priorities, your focus may evolve over time.
What you ll do
Design and improve user-facing experiences across the Algrano marketplace
Work closely with Product and Engineering teams to turn ambiguous problems into clear, usable flows and interfaces
Create wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI for new features and improvements
Implement your designs in code within our Ruby on Rails application using HTML & SCSS
Help evolve our design system (Brew) and interaction patterns, raising consistency and quality across the product
Contribute to product quality through careful attention to UX writing, edge cases, and the details that make an experience feel smooth and trustworthy
Communicate primarily asynchronously in Slack and Notion, with weekly live meetings
Join periodic team gatherings in Zurich, Switzerland
We d love to hear from you if
You have 4+ years of experience designing digital products (UI and UX), ideally in a product-led environment
You can take a problem from unclear to clear and balance discovery, iteration, and delivery
You have strong interaction and visual design skills and you care about craft and quality
You enjoy collaborating closely with engineers and can think in components and systems
You are comfortable with HTML and CSS. We build in Haml and SCSS within a Ruby on Rails codebase
You communicate clearly in written and spoken English
You are remote-first and based in Latin America or East Africa.
Bonus points for
Experience with marketplaces, e-commerce, or complex filtering and search experiences
Experience in logistics or the coffee trade
Experience in user research, including interviews, concept testing or usability testing
Experience designing for accessibility and inclusive interfaces
Experience with Javascript; we primarily use Hotwire (Turbo + Stimulus.js)
What we offer Mission-driven company empowering coffee growers and independent roasters Be part of a diverse team with a variety of cultural backgrounds and skills. Flexible working hours Fully remote team Regular team and company off-sites in Europe Yearly conference and a learning budget Career growth; opportunities for ambitious team members to take on new challenges and responsibilities.
We don t believe in cover letters. Instead, we ve prepared a set of questions to help us get to know you better. Please include a portfolio link showing how you think and work.
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/algrano-product-designer
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