Senior Product Designer (Remote)

If you ever had to organize an event for your company (seminar, party, meeting), you know it’s a stressful, lengthy, and painful process that involves finding a venue, catering, maybe housing, waiting for and comparing quotes, booking and paying. Kactus was born to make that process simple, fast, and delightful, so you can focus on the event itself.

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 new round of financing which gives us strong confidence in our ability to keep the company growing in the coming years.

We are a remote first company of 25 people, which means you’re free to work from wherever you feel best, as long as you stay in a +3/-3 time range from Paris. If you live in Paris, we also have an HQ near Republique where our parisian teammates often work.

We all gather for offsites 3 times a year, and more frequently for parties in Paris, or team meetings in France.

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.

At Kactus, the product works in cycles of 4 weeks where a team of a designer and 1 or 2 developers work together to release a project. During 4 weeks, we give full autonomy to the team to work together and accomplish the project.

A small team works in parallel to define the projects for the next cycle, and ensure projects are doable in a 4 weeks cycle.

We have a strong culture of asynchronous communication via Basecamp (our collaboration and project management tool), so we expect you to have very good writing skills and be a good communicator.

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to help us solve hard design problems and bring additional experience to our current team.

Responsibilities include:

• Guaranteeing the quality of the user experience
• Solving our users problems with great UX

Your typical week will include:

• Working with Product Manager and Business Experts to identify problems worth solving
• Interviewing users or reading support tickets to refine your understanding
• Prototyping solutions and testing usability
• Working with developers to identify constraints and complexities
• Finalizing UI
• Reviewing final design implementation
• Ensuring you solved the problem by watching sessions / using data

Skills you’ll need to be successful:

• User Research
• Prototyping
• Ability to solve problems with great interfaces
• Sketch, Figma
• An analytical mindset
• Building and maitaining design systems
• Great writing skills
• Empathy

Experience required:

• Worked for a few years as a designer (~5 years) in a product team
• Ability to show how you solved hard UX problems in past experiences

Personality:

• Strong autonomy
• Team player and good communicator
• Humble and open to feedback
• Proactive

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