Senior Product Designer- Hardware (fixed term 12 months)

About the role

<p>&nbsp;</p> <h2 data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Team description</h2> <p>Hardware is the team behind the card readers merchants use every day to take payments, from a market stall to a busy café till. The role sits within the Solo squad, working across embedded systems, on-device UI, companion app, and backend, so decisions made here shape a product experience unlike a typical app role. Whoever joins will step into a well-established craft with real scope to shape how the next generation of Solo evolves, working directly with engineering to bring ideas from concept to something millions of merchants use daily.</p> <h2>What you'll do</h2> <ul> <li> <p>Own product design end to end for Solo: framing problems, running research, defining UX flows and information architecture, and delivering production-ready designs</p> </li> <li> <p>Work across the full hardware experience (embedded, on-device UI, app, and backend), partnering with product management and engineering to reach the best solution for merchants</p> </li> <li> <p>Make and explain design trade-offs against real technical constraints, without compromising product quality</p> </li> <li> <p>Partner with product to define success metrics tied to business goals, and use data to validate design decisions</p> </li> <li> <p>Evolve SumUp's global design system (Circuit UI) and the Solo hardware UI library, keeping a consistent design vision</p> </li> <li> <p>Share feedback and craft knowledge with the wider design chapter</p> </li> </ul> <h2>You'll be great for this role if…</h2> <ul> <li> <p>Extensive experience owning complex product design work independently, with deep expertise in either UX or UI and strong skills in the other</p> </li> <li> <p>Comfort defining multi step flows and information architecture, accounting for edge cases and dependencies across the user journey</p> </li> <li> <p>Fluency with common design and prototyping tools, particularly Figma</p> </li> <li> <p>A human centred design process, backed by both qualitative and quantitative research methods</p> </li> <li> <p>Ability to translate technical constraints into design trade-offs and document them clearly in specs</p> </li> <li> <p>Track record shipping complex products through a full development cycle in an agile environment</p> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to have:</strong></p> <ul> <li> <p>Experience with hardware, smart devices, or IoT products</p> </li> <li> <p>Experience launching products in new or global markets, including localisation and multi screen considerations</p> </li> </ul> <h2>Why you should join SumUp</h2> <p>🌎 Opportunity to work with SumUppers globally on large-scale fintech products used by millions of businesses worldwide, from our Berlin office. This involves an office-first setup</p> <p>🌈 Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: be part of a workplace that values and promotes diversity, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone's perspectives are respected and embraced</p> <p>🚀 Enrolment onto our Virtual Stock Option programme: you will own a stake in SumUp's future success</p> <p>📚 A dedicated annual L&amp;D budget of €2000 for your individual development, which can be used to attend conferences and/or advance your career through further education&nbsp;</p> <p>💶 A corporate pension scheme where we match up to 20% of your contributions</p> <p>🏖 Generous time off: enjoy 28 days of paid leave plus public holidays and special leave days</p> <p>🎁 Numerous other benefits such as Urban Sports Club subsidy, Kita placement assistance, subsidised office lunches</p> <p>🌴 Break4me: 1-month sabbatical after 3 years of service</p> <p>🔗 Referral Bonus: earn additional rewards by referring talented individuals to join the SumUp team</p> <h2>About SumUp</h2> <p>Be empowered to do more that matters.</p> <p>At SumUp, we're on a mission to empower small businesses across the globe by providing simple and affordable tools that allow them to thrive. Today, over 4 million businesses in 38 markets

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