Senior UX Designer

Senior UX Designer

This role is part of our Experience & Engineering Teams in Switzerland. We combine our skills in developing future-proof technical solutions with our expertise in design to create outstanding digital experiences that build lasting relationships with our clients – including Ricola, CSS, Edelweiss Air, Lufthansa Group, Stokke, and Just Eat Takeaway.

Job Purpose: As a UX Designer, you lay the foundation for fantastic end-to-end user experiences. You have a passion for complex challenges and are eager to transform them into beautiful and smart digital products. You also enjoy working in a dynamic environment with the best and most personable people in the industry.

Key Responsibilities:

• Bring your new ideas to best practices into your project teams.
• Participate in and lead discovery sessions. Apply generative methods to uncover potential challenges and opportunities.
• Translate strategies and insights into thoughtful journeys, flows, and wireframes.
• Support your design decisions with annotations.
• Create simple prototypes (and validate them with users if needed).
• Present your work to clients and stakeholders and implement input and feedback.
• Work hand in hand with UI designers to shape the final user experience.
• Conduct user research to validate your methods and ideas.

What We Are Looking For:

• More than 5 years of experience as a UX Designer in an agency or at a well-known brand.
• Experience in designing websites, apps, and digital products for A-brands.
• A strong portfolio (website or PDF) that demonstrates your experience and passion.
• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams.
• Ideally experience in the banking and finance industry.
• Fluent English and German.
• Experience with Figma and collaborative tools.
• Availability to work in Switzerland.

We Offer:

• An excellent salary based on your experience and equal pay policy.
• Hybrid work: You have the choice to work from our office or remotely, and we have core working hours where you can flexibly set your start and end times.
• Above-average social benefits and support for mental health.
• 25 paid vacation days with the option to take unpaid leave.
• We celebrate project and team successes together, and we also enjoy having a cold drink together.
• You can choose between the spacious and accessible location in Zurich; in Bern, you will find a small but fine and fully equipped office where you can work in peace.
• A reputation for good work. DEPT® has been certified as a B Corp® since 2021 and has been named "Agency of the Year" at both the Lovies and the Webby Awards. Great clients. Whether big or small, local or global – at DEPT® you have the opportunity to work with clients of all sizes and from all industries. And we celebrate all our successes together!
• The opportunity for development. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills with training, further education, and certifications.
• Global annual DEPT® Cares Month, where employees come together and use their skills to support local charities.

Who Are We?

We are pioneers at heart. What does that mean? We always look forward and think about what we can create tomorrow that doesn’t exist today. We are digitally born and represent a new agency model with deep capabilities in technology and marketing. That’s why we hire curious, self-motivated, and talented people who never stop innovating.

Our culture is big enough to scale, and small enough to care. This means that we are big enough to provide you with the best tools, global opportunities, and benefits to help you thrive. At the same time, we act small by investing in you, your growth, and your team, giving you the autonomy to solve our clients’ problems, no matter where in the world you are.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At DEPT® we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. We actively strive to recruit, develop, promote, and retain talented people from diverse backgrounds with different skills and perspectives.

Are you unsure if you meet all the qualifications? Apply and let us decide! Studies show that women and members of underrepresented groups often hesitate to apply when they feel they do not meet all the requirements, even though they actually do. We believe in giving everyone a fair chance to shine.

We also encourage you to contact us to discuss any accommodations we can make to support you during the application process and your time with us.