Product Designer Senior (Remote)

If you ever had to organize an event for your company, you know it’s a stressful and painful process that involves finding a venue, catering, maybe housing, waiting for quotes, comparing, booking and praying that it will all go as planned.

Kactus was born to make that experience fast and simple, inspired by the best consumer experience we know of.

We are a small team of 25 passionate people who are building the biggest corporate events marketplace in Europe, and we intend to do it in 3 ways:

• Having the most exhaustive offer, so users find everything they need on our platform
• Sharing unique data insights with our users, to help them make an informed choice faster
• Designing a frictionless booking process from search to payment

Since we launched in 2016, more than 10 000 companies (including big companies like Total, AXA, BNP, Chanel) have used our platform. In a few years, we aspire to become the European leader of Corporate Events booking.

During the Covid crisis, we raised a 5M$ round which gives us strong confidence in our ability to keep the company growing in the coming years.

We are a remote-first company, which means you can work from wherever you feel best, as long as you stay in a +2/-2 time range from Paris. If you live in Paris, we also have an HQ near Republique where you can work.

We are looking for entrepreneurial, autonomous builders who share our passion for making a delightful web experience.

Our values

Embrace the Adventure 🏆
We work as a team towards a common goal. We work, fail, learn and succeed together.

Deliver a WOW experience 😍
Customer happiness is in everyone’s DNA. We are here for a while and we do care for our customers, that’s why we always love to go the extra-mile to create long-term relationships with our clients & partners.

Be passionate & happy 🎉
We believe that work should be a strong source of fulfillment, pride & happiness. We are determined optimists and every single victory or important life moment is a good excuse to celebrate !

Be Humble 🎓
It’s simple : NO EGO at Kactus.

Be transparent 🙌
There is no taboo at Kactus. Always being honest, we can strongly trust each other and focus on what really matters.

Dream big. Take Ownership. Over deliver 🚀
We are ambitious entrepreneurs who dare to reinvent our industry. At Kactus, be proactive, go beyond your limits, own your success to drive innovation and growth throughout the whole company. Are you up to the challenge? 🏆
We work as a team towards a common goal. We work, fail, learn and succeed together.

As a Senior Product Designer, you will be responsible for identifying, understanding, and solving complex problems that will make our product move forward.

Our product strategy focuses on three main challenges:

• Expanding our marketplace by onboarding more partners on our platform
• Helping our users make better choices by providing unique data insights
• Making our booking experience always simpler, by improving our processes and our global UX

Your typical week will include:

• Working with Business Experts to identify problems worth solving
• Interviewing users, reading feedback, or watching user sessions to refine your understanding of a problem
• Prototyping solutions, communicating and aligning stakeholders
• Working with developers to identify constraints and complexities
• Finalizing UI and testing usability
• Reviewing final design implementation
• Ensuring you solved the problem by following up on your work
• Lead initiatives to industrialise and improve our design processes

Tools we’re using

• Miro or Fat-marker sketches to communicate high-level ideas and concept
• Sketch for final design implementation using our design system library
• Basecamp is our project management & communication tool

About you

• 4+ years experience as a Product Designer or UX Designer, building digital products in a tech startup (marketplace is a plus!)
• An analytical, problem-solving mindset
• Strong UX/UI skills
• Ability to pitch your ideas and align stakeholders on a shared vision
• Open to give and receive constructive feedback
• Entrepreneurial, self-motivated doer
• Excellent ability to communite clearly in French & English (spoken and written)

What we offer

• Super flexible work environment: as a remote-first company, you can work from where you feel best
• We cover the expenses to setup your work environment at home, or your coworking space subscription
• Team seminars and incentives 4 x / year in great locations
• Lots of autonomy in how and when you do your work: we trust you by default
• Entrepreneurial culture: everyone takes initiatives to move the company forward
• An environment that invests in your personal growth

1) Send us a portfolio or example of what you’ve done, of UX problems you solved, and why you’d like to join Kactus
2) Call with a co-founder
3) 2 interviews with a designer and a person from the product team
4) 1 day workshop at our Paris Office