UX / UI Designer with German

Company Description

Accesa is a leading technology company headquartered in Cluj-Napoca, with offices in Oradea and 20 years of experience in turning business challenges into opportunities and growth.

A value-driven organisation, it has established itself as a partner of choice for major brands in Retail, Manufacturing, Finance, and Banking. It covers the complete digital evolution journey of its customers, from ideation and requirements setup to software development and managed services solutions.

With more than 1,200 IT professionals, Accesa also has a fast-growing footprint, establishing itself as an employer of choice for IT professionals who are passionate about problem-solving through technology. Coming together in strong tech teams with a customer-centric approach, they enable businesses to grow, delivering value for our clients, partners, industry, and community.

Job Description

Our client operates prominently in the financial sector, where we enhance operations across their extensive network of 150,000 workstations and support a workforce of 4,500 employees. Our IT solutions ensure streamlined processes and heightened security, enabling them to maintain their leadership in financial technology.

The project features a range of applications that address various aspects of banking and user interactions, focusing on developing, monitoring, and analyzing application interface data and program efficiency.

Responsibilities:

Design human-centered solutions: Design solutions that meet user needs and business goals across devices within a complex application ecosystem. Ensure designs follow accessibility and usability standards in a banking context.

Understand user needs and business goals: Conduct user research and discovery activities to identify user and business requirements, ensuring design solutions align with the context and objectives.

Validate design solutions: Develop wireframes to bring ideas to life, validate solutions, and conduct validation sessions with teams, stakeholders, or users. Iterate on products by incorporating feedback and insights.

Apply a consultancy mindset: Actively understand and align with client goals and business contexts, build trusted stakeholder relationships, and facilitate team ideation sessions.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work closely with Product Owners to assess product requirements and translate them into interactive prototypes, user flows, wireframes, and final designs. Collaborate with development teams to ensure an intuitive, simple, and elegant user experience that meets technical requirements.

Work with complex design systems: Collaborate with layered design teams to propose new patterns and perform quality checks.

Communicate design decisions and insights: Summarize insights and capture workshop results in a presentable format. Tailor the communication of design insights and approaches to resonate with diverse audiences.

Mentor and lead design initiatives: Provide guidance and support to peer designers on projects, share best practices, conduct design reviews, and manage stakeholder activities within a German-speaking product community. Contribute to a growing Product Design community focused on growth and knowledge sharing. Participate actively by sharing best practices and fostering experimentation.

Qualifications

Must have:

• 3+ years of experience in a UX/UI design role
• Expertise in user research, interaction design, prototyping tools and design methodologies
• Deep knowledge of usability, accessibility standards, and human-centered design principles, combined with a consultancy mindset to effectively align design solutions with business goal
• Strong facilitation skills for workshops and stakeholder engagements
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, negotiate and prioritize effectively in multi-cultural environments
• Experience working across various methodologies and levels of project complexity
• Strong analytical judgment, critical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills
• Advanced proficiency in German and English (both written and spoken)
• Regular use of AI tools to improve productivity, automate or reduce repetitive work, support decision-making, and deliver higher-quality outcomes
• Ability to use AI tools responsibly by structuring effective prompts, critically validating outputs, understanding limitations, and taking ownership of the final result

Nice to have:

• Experience in banking, insurance, or financial projects, with a strong understanding of multi-device interaction models and ecosystems
• Experience working in highly matrixed organizations or large-scale corporate environments, applying design systems and systems thinking
• Active contribution to design communities, including leading design initiatives or mentoring peers

As a people-first organisation, we believe diversity strengthens our teams and drives innovation. All employment decisions are based on merit, skills, and performance, without discriminating based on any personal characteristic. This reinforces our commitment to providing an inclusive and respectful workplace.

Additional Information

At Accesa you can:

Enjoy our holistic benefits program that covers the four pillars that we believe come together to support our wellbeing, covering social, physical, emotional wellbeing, as well as work-life fusion.

• Physical: premium medical package for both our colleagues and their children, dental coverage up to a yearly amount, eyeglasses reimbursement every two years, voucher for sport equipment expenses, in-house personal trainer
• Emotional: individual therapy sessions with a certified psychotherapist, webinars on self-development topics
• Social: virtual activities, sports challenges, special occasions get-togethers
• Work-life fusion: yearly increase in days off, flexible working schedule, birthday, holiday and loyalty gifts for major milestones