Staff Visual Designer, Design Language Direction

Nicosia
Wrike is the most powerful work management platform. Built for teams and organizations looking to collaborate, create, and exceed every day, Wrike brings everyone and all work into a single place to remove complexity, increase productivity, and free people up to focus on their most purposeful work.
 
Our vision:  A world where everyone is free to focus on their most purposeful work, together. 
 

Ready to become a Wriker?

In this role, you’ll be a key leader in the product design team, responsible for all aspects of visual design. You will develop the next generation of Wrike’s product design language, helping us to express Wrike’s identity in-product, and create a strong emotional connection between Wrike and our existing and prospective customers. You will lead across functions to ensure teams correctly apply the product’s design language while delivering on customer outcomes. The product’s look and feel will contribute significantly to Wrike’s image as a modern enterprise application with a best-in-class customer experience. The role requires outstanding visual design skills, systems thinking and the ability to collaborate with different product teams.

More about Your team

Wrike product design team consists of 16 full-stack product designers, 3 UX researchers (including a Manager), 3 UX writers (including a Manager), a Design Technologist, a Design System Architect, a UX Architect, 2 Managers and a Head of Product Design. The team is distributed among different locations in Europe with 2 main hubs located in Prague and Cyprus. All these professionals are inspired by each other, the broader organization and by our customers. You will be reporting to the Design System Architect — Beau Roberts — and work very closely with the Head of Product Design and other leaders.

How You’ll make an impact

  • Take Wrike’s product look and feel to the next level by developing a modern and attractive visual design language that reflects the company’s brand identity, imbues our apps with a sense of clarity and ease-of-use, and elicits a strong emotional connection with our current and prospective customers.
  • Maintain our Figma design system and design language documentation.
  • Partner with the UI Kit team that develops our design system to identify and execute on the most impactful opportunities to deliver an exceptional user experience.
  • Work closely with Wrike’s Creative Design team in the Marketing organization to ensure we stay aligned with the current and future direction of the Wrike brand.
  • Provide feedback on the work of product designers to ensure that the design language is applied correctly and consistently across the entire Wrike experience.
  • Research user interface trends and the potential impact of new technologies on the user experience.
  • Stay up to date with design directions and innovations in competing products.
  • Actively design and build products by working closely with other designers, product managers, and engineers.
  • Construct compelling artifacts that communicate research and strategic directions (mood boards, graphic and motion studies) and apply Wrike’s design language to functional areas of our product, UI components, and design system elements.
  • Participate in the continuous improvement of customer experience tools and processes, and scalable product design standards.
  • Collaborate with development teams and business leaders to drive successful implementation of phenomenal experiences in our software and services.
  • Participate in design-thinking exercises to break through organizational silos and collaboratively seek sophisticated design challenges.
  • Provide occasional guidance and training to other employees within your specialist area.

How we work

All teams use Wrike to structure and execute work, and our main design tool is Figma. We like to generate and test hypotheses via UX research and analytics and we strive to excel at both discovery and delivery using human-centered design. We work in cross-functional teams and we use OKRS to define the metrics of success.

You will achieve your best if you have

  • Significant professional visual design experience for user interfaces that manage large volumes of data and a high degree of complexity.
  • Experience in creative direction for web applications.
  • A portfolio demonstrating an expert grasp of design fundamentals (e.g. color, depth, layout, typography, iconography, illustrations, etc.) applied to digital products, and an ability to connect visual design to specific brand attributes and business goals.
  • Experience creating and maintaining design systems in Figma.
  • Strong communication and persuasion skills with an ability to to distill complex ideas to their essence and present designs to a wide range of audiences, including designers, engineers and executive leadership.
  • Excellent time management skills with an ability to support multiple small, tactical consulting projects, while simultaneously maintaining momentum through long-running strategic initiatives.
  • An ability to proactively seek feedback and collaboration to generate a divergent set of potential directions and narrow in on the most promising.
  • Advanced English language skills: written and spoken.

You will stand out with

  • Experience designing accessible products (a11y).
  • 2D motion design experience using Adobe After Effects or similar.
  • 3D design experience.
  • Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Perks of working with Wrike

  • Health insurance for you and your family 

  • SIM card with unlimited internet access for employees (provided during your employment) 

  • 21 paid vacation days 

  • 5 uncertified sick days per year 

  • 10 fully-paid working days of sick leave per year 
  • School allowance of up to €600 per month (for children at school age) 

  • Up to 18 weeks of fully-paid maternity leave 

  • 2 weeks of fully paid paternity leave. Enhanced four weeks of fully paid paternity leave will be available for employees after 6 months of continuous service 

What’s next?

  • Interview with a Recruiter
  • Submit 2-3 case studies of your work  for the team review together with your visual design portfolio
  • Tech Interview with Product Design team leaders
  • Cultural interview - we’ll tell you more about Wrike culture and discuss your soft skills

Your recruitment buddy will be Alexandra Vorobyova, Lead Recruiter.



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Who Is Wrike and Our Culture

We’re a team of innovators and creators who solve the complex work problems of today and tomorrow.
 
Hybrid work mode

Wrike promotes a hybrid work mode for those that live near an office hub, we meet in the office 2-3 times a week. This work mode supports our culture of collaboration and solving problems fast to deliver business outcomes and win together.

Our persona 

💡  Smart: We love what we do, and we’re great at it because this is our domain. Our combined knowledge in this space is unmatched.
💚  Dedicated: We get up every day focused on helping our customers win. We’re committed to helping our teammates win, too!
🤗  Approachable: We're friendly, easy to get along with, considerate, and helpful. 

Our culture and Values 

🤩 Customer-Focused

We care about our customers. We understand the customer journey, experience, and value derived from Wrike. Decision-making and action-taking are done with the customer in mind.

🤝 Collaborative

We work as one and win together, each bringing unique strengths that contribute to diversity of thought for better outcomes. Leveraging our own work management platform, we foster an environment of creative collaboration and shared achievement.

🎨 Creative

We strive to succeed through continuous innovation. It’s our pursuit of novel concepts that helped us create a market category. We continue to cultivate a workplace that fosters creative thinking as a means of transcending conventional boundaries and empowers us to break new ground to deliver extraordinary work management solutions. 

💪 Committed

We believe in ownership at all levels of the organization, by owning workflows from start to finish. Each member of our team is an integral part of this commitment, establishing work as a platform for personal growth and transformation, as well as collective success and growth.

 
Check out our LinkedIn Life Page, Instagram, Wrike Engineering Team, Medium, Meetup.com, Youtube for a feel for what life is like at Wrike. 

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