Product Designer - talent pool

Quick summary

🕛 We’re not actively hiring at the moment, but we’re building a talent pool for upcoming opportunities. We welcome high-quality candidates interested in future freelance, part-time, or full-time collaboration.

🌎 This is a fully remote position.

🇪🇺 Looking for people in Europe due to time-zone alignment.

🇬🇧 Native or Professional English is a must. All company communication is in English. We’ve got many different nationalities represented in our agency.

🤠 Minimum 3 years of design experience, with at least 2 years in product design (it’s a bonus if you have already worked in an agency environment or remotely).

🔮 We’re interested in autonomous and proactive individuals who aren’t afraid to make mistakes, learn along the way, and grow with the agency.

As this is a talent pool position intended for future potential collaboration, and our HR team is small, please allow for a bit longer response time to your application.

About us

We are a partner for digital evolution, merging creativity and technology for holistic growth.

We join forces with companies dedicated to addressing real human needs. Leveraging our full-cycle digital capabilities, we shape brands, experiences, and products that enrich the lives of millions every single day.

We're an agency founded on the belief that challenging core assumptions unlocks transformative solutions. From our humble beginnings on Island Krk to a global team spanning multiple nationalities, we defy expectations, guided by focus and determination to do our best work.

We believe in learning through doing, embracing the road less traveled, and continually striving to improve. Open communication and mindful listening guide our approach, ensuring we understand, adapt, and push forward in everything we do.

We work primarily with technology SMEs, corporations, and funded startups who develop products in the SaaS, finance, banking, property, healthcare, transport, and communication sectors. We’ve had the pleasure of partnering with startups, SMBs, corporations, and Fortune 500 companies, including AWS, ThoughtSpot, Progressive, Descartes, ShipBob, Quillbot, Teachable, Crisp, CloudZero, Kinetik, and many more.

BB Agency was founded in 2012 on Island Krk, Croatia. Today we are a fully remote digital agency with more than thirty members and collaborators working together from all over the world to provide a valuable global perspective on our work.

🏆 We are proud to have a 4.6 Glassdoor rating! Join our team and discover for yourself why our employees consistently rate us so highly.

Check out the recording of a Dribbble Workshop, where our Co-Founder & Head of Design, Filip Justić, alongside our Brand Design Team Lead, Vicente Reyes Montealegre, talked about winning portfolio design and interview tactics, where they covered everything from structuring a standout portfolio to the essentials and non-negotiables that can help designers get hired.

Job description

We are on the lookout for down-to-earth creatives willing to shape the products of tomorrow, as well as to keep growing their skills and expertise in potential future collaborations.

As a Middle-level Product Designer, you will blend with BB Agency’s strong design culture. As a part of our remote team, you will join talented UX Researchers and UX Designers, Brand Designers, UI Designers, and other Product Designers, who are all passionate about solving creative and functional problems for our clients.

• Design digital experiences: You will design exceptional end-to-end product features and capabilities for different product environments (web applications, chatbots, native mobile applications). You will be responsible for overseeing, leading, and creating new components and patterns that are scalable, user-accessible, and meet the needs of customers.
• Collaborate in design systems: You will work with both custom and scalable design systems to ensure a well-structured product environment. Your responsibilities include building comprehensive, modular, and organized systems, while guiding client teams on proper implementation, usage, and growth. Expertise in Figma features like variables, variants, tokens, and auto-layouts is essential to maintain and evolve the design system effectively
• Provide strong visual design capabilities: You will define design languages, visual directions, and design interfaces for products (platforms, widgets, and mobile apps) environments. Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design systems and layouts.
• Solve problems: You will own the end-to-end process for solving UX/UI design problems: ideate, conceptualize, test, and refine. You will execute all phases of product design, ensuring alignment to briefs from internal teams and external partners.
• Research and gather feedback: You will conduct competitive research to see how a new product fits with market needs and consumer preferences. With the support of the UX team, you’ll gather feedback from key users and stakeholders to understand their needs and pain points, helping to design experiences that are intuitive and easy to use.
• Proficiency in Presentation skills: You have the ability to effectively communicate and articulate design concepts, ideas, and project progress to various stakeholders, including team members, clients, and executives. This includes the capacity to create visually engaging presentations, deliver clear and concise explanations, and adapt communication style as needed to suit different audiences. Strong presentation skills are essential for conveying the value of design solutions, and driving successful project outcomes.

Preferred experience

You are an open-minded, focused, determined, good listener, and you aren’t afraid to make mistakes. You have an understanding of a standard agency workflow. Preferably you have at least 3 years of experience as a designer, 2 of which are in product design, and have worked in an agency, tech company, or as a freelancer.

• Strong design skill: You are competent in designing exceptional end-to-end product features. You have an understanding and knowledge of how to construct user simple flows, wireframes, and Figma prototypes that effectively communicate design concepts. You are very capable of building high-definition UI on products (web applications, chatbots, native mobile applications) and making your work scalable.
• Design Toolbox: You have mastered or have a good understanding of Notion, Figma, Sketch, and Adobe.
• Data-based: Research and data will be informing your decision-making. As a designer, your decisions will be based on the user, client, and market data we collect during the discovery process.
• Human-centric: You put effort into understanding user and client needs. You implement solutions into your designs.
• Systemic and organized: You are well-organized and understand the importance of systemic design. We design solutions that can be scaled and used by the whole team (we set up systems based on components, typography, colors, grids, margins, etc.).
• Accountable: You have a strong sense of commitment, accountability, and ownership. You are independent and will solve problems by taking matters into your hands if needed. You are a doer and you understand the bigger goals of the product while staying mindful of the details needed to achieve them.
• Communication: You can easily communicate with your team members and clients and are confident about getting people buying in around your proposed solutions. You will be part of client meetings to showcase your work and progress weekly.
• Languages: You are very fluent in English and able to engage with all international team members and clients. The majority of our clients are from the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Australia, etc.
• Bonus: You have experience building interactive prototypes or animation skills.

If we decide to hire you, in your first week with BB expect to

• Onboard and integrate into Notion and Figma.
• Get familiar with our project portfolio and team structure.
• Learn about our culture from BB’s Handbook.
• Become familiar with our Research and Design process.

In the first month, expect to

• Participate in a production role on one of our projects.
• Gain an understanding of the complete product design process.

In the first three months, expect to

• Gain the trust of team leads and colleagues researchers and designers.
• Present your work to project stakeholders.

In the first six months, expect to

• Work on more than one project at a time.
• Share knowledge and experience with colleagues.

In the first year, expect to

• Oversee the entire lifecycle of a project, from discovery until launch.
• Become a role model and mentor for less experienced colleagues.
• Actively participate in improving the product research and design process.

Hiring process

1. Pre-selection based on your application. We are interested in your experiences and your roles on specific projects, as well as your skills.
2. Video exchange with HR.
3. Selection test that includes some general inquiries relevant to every team and situational questions that are team-specific.
4. Video exchange with the Team Lead, where you will present a deep dive into one of your projects. Take us through a project of your choice and show us who you collaborated with, the tools you used, and what particular challenges you faced.
5. Welcome to BB Agency Talent Pool - hopefully we get a chance to collaborate in the future!