Product Manager (with UX/UI background)

Full-time · Vienna

At Journi, a creative tech company and Austria's most innovative start-up of 2024, we’re building the world’s #1 most-downloaded printing app. Our app empowers customers to effortlessly create beautiful photo books and other print products. Using AI technology, we automatically create personalized designs based on the content our users want to print. Be part of a team of highly motivated and like-minded individuals who you can learn from—and who are excited to learn from you too!

Looking for an opportunity to learn, improve, face challenges and become an integral part of the product team of a fast-growing startup? As a Product Manager with UI/UX experience at Journi, you’ll be a key player in improving and further developing our products across all apps and platforms that are used by 6 million users!

➤ WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Work full time (38.5 h/w) and learn from a passionate, motivated and international team with a start-up spirit

• Take over a leading role as product manager by guiding an interdisciplinary product team

• Know all our products by heart as well as our competitors

• Be part of our OKR process and help define reachable key results & product milestones with other managers in the company

• Draft new features or improve existing ones based on:

  • customer problems, market research and data

  • company needs: goals, vision & budget

• Plan & document those features/experiments

• Also act as User Interface & User Experience Designer within your cross functional team

• Gather technical requirements and estimate efforts together with a cross functional team or tech managers

• Ensure & support the successful execution of the product implementation, report about the project status & analyse the outcome

➤ YOUR BAG OF TRICKS

• Passion for mobile & web technology with strong interest in photo/printing/blogging apps

• University degree in UI/UX Design, Product Design, Product Management or similar

• 4+ years of work experience either as UI/UX designer being responsible to also manage projects or in a digital product management role

• Proven track record of various design projects and/or apps/products that have been developed (portfolio and/or links to projects required to apply)

• Mastery of design & management tools: especially Asana, Confluence, Amplitude, Figma (or similar)

• Self-starter with a strong ‘hands-on’ mentality & passion for solving problems

• You are an untiring motivator with the ambition to bring out the best in a product team & inspire others

• Ability to lead a team & manage several projects/tasks at once while maintaining a ‘big picture’ perspective

• You don’t shy away from public speaking, have strong communication and presentation skills

• You are constantly learning, don’t shy away to give and receive feedback, criticize respectfully, you are self-motivated, hungry to succeed and ready to challenge the status quo

• You’re an EU citizen or have a working visa for Austria (unfortunately we aren’t able to support non-EU citizens for this position)

• You are able to relocate to or are based in Vienna - the world’s most liveable city!

➤ DESIRED PERSONALITY TRAITS

• Self-starter with a strong ‘hands-on’ mentality & passion for solving problems

• You are an untiring motivator with the ambition to bring out the best in a product team & inspire others

• You don’t shy away from public speaking, have strong communication and presentation skills

• You are constantly learning, don’t shy away to give and receive feedback, criticize respectfully, you are self-motivated, hungry to succeed and ready to challenge the status quo

➤ NICE TO HAVE (BUT NOT REQUIRED!)

• Cross-platform design experiences: Web, Responsive Web, Android, iOS 

• Familiar with creating and maintaining a component design system

• Experience with market research techniques, customer development etc.

➤ WHAT WE OFFER

A happy team makes for a happy workplace. We wouldn’t be able to do what we are doing without our team and that’s why we offer:

• A fair annual gross salary in accordance with the Collective Agreement, starting at EUR 55,800. Our final offer depends on your experience and qualifications amongst other factors.

Plus, a bunch of awesome social benefits, such as:

• Vacation goals: 25 days off per year, plus 1 extra day for every year you stick around (up to 5 extra days!)

• A space to thrive: a fun, bright and award-winning office built by the Journi Team, complete with ping-pong and foosball tables to blow off steam

• Work your way: enjoy a hybrid working model with 40% home office days and flexible hours (core hours: 10am-4pm Mo-Th; and 10am-2pm Fri)

• Lunch on us: receive a €5.50 Pluxee voucher per working day

• Go places: we reimburse your public transport card for Vienna €365 yearly

• Plan for tomorrow: additional €300 yearly towards your private pension fund

• Team first: join our yearly team-building Journi to exciting destinations

• Mac your life easier: with a company MacBook, also available for personal use

• Refresh and recharge: in-house or online yoga sessions every two weeks

• Stay healthy: regular in-house health check with Haelsi

• Unlock language skills: with a premium Busuu App membership

• Professional development: Access to resources, courses, and learning programs to help you excel in your role

• Boost your German: weekly in-house lessons in small groups

• Fuel your day: fruits, cereals, yogurt, and milk variations — on the house

• Brew up productivity: Italian-style coffee and teas in our coffee kitchen

• Special treatment: enjoy a premium membership on all Journi products

What to Expect After You Apply

• Intro call with the People & Culture Team (30 min)

• Technical Interview with the Design Team (1 h)

• Challenge

• Final Interview with the Leadership Team (1 h)

We’d love to hear from you - please include your CV and cover letter with your application!

Nada

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Talent Acquisition Manager