Graduate Product Designer

Design, Amsterdam, NL

About the Team

At Miro, the design team is fully embedded in various product streams while operating as a tight-knit, centralized craft. While our processes are fully consolidated into the product development life cycle, we still enjoy a high degree of ownership and autonomy in our work. We’re striving to find the right balance between visual craftsmanship, user needs, and business goals. 

You’ll apply your experience and education with a customer-centric mindset to solve customer problems and identify business opportunities.  
We operate in a fast-paced environment and get to have a direct impact on the millions of users who rely on Miro to collaborate and create the next big thing. As a part of our Product Design team, you will contribute to our design process, culture, and experience principles and set new standards for design quality. Learn more about the colorful design team and our culture: https://miro.design/

You'll apply a customer-centric approach to complex problem-solving and collaborate with other designers from some of the highest-profile companies in the world. We operate in a fast-paced environment and get to have a direct impact on the millions of users who rely on Miro to collaborate and create the next big thing. As a part of our Product Design team, you will contribute to our design process, culture, and experience principles and set new standards for design quality. Learn more about the colorful design team and our culture: https://miro.design/

About the Role

The Miro Graduate Product Design Programme is designed to help new designers launch their careers. In our 12-month programme, you'll gain hands-on experience working on real-world projects. You'll also be mentored by experienced designers, who will help you develop your skills and career.
 
As a graduate product designer at Miro, you will focus on learning, growing and bringing a new fresh perspective to the Miro experience. Your goal will be to explore the customer experience, identify opportunities and design high-quality solutions but most of all to learn and grow as a new designer at Miro.

What you’ll do

  • Explore the end-to-end design process, from discovery research to effective problem framing, ideation, co-creation, prototyping, and user testing, into high-fidelity designs
  • Understand the competitive landscape, and using qualitative and quantitative methods hypothesize new solutions and improvements to the Miro products
  • Collaborate closely with UXR and analytics to turn insights into high-quality designs and work with content design & engineering partners to ensure solid implementation in production
  • Understand the success of your solutions with the team and iterate on them
  • Bring delight to Miro users through high-quality interaction design and visuals

What you’ll need

  • Graduate in 2025 in Bachelor’s or Master’s in interaction design, industrial design, creative design, HCI, or a related design field
  • Strong drive to learn, and absorb knowledge from your team, and ability to take and utilize this knowledge in your work
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills
  • Be available to start a full time position for our 12 month programme from September 2024
  • Be able to commute to our office in Amsterdam

What's in it for you

  • Competitive equity package
  • Medical insurance coverage
  • Lunch, snacks and drinks provided in the office
  • Wellbeing benefit and WFH equipment allowance
  • Annual learning and development allowance to grow your skills and career
  • Travel allowance for your commute
  • Opportunity to work for a globally diverse team
  • Inspiring workplace in the heart of Amsterdam

    Please submit your application by February 28th!
    While we are eager to welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds, we are unable to offer relocation assistance for this position. Applicants should be prepared to arrange their own relocation if necessary.

About Miro

Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 60M users worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 100. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,800 employees in 12 hubs around the world.

We are a team of dreamers. We look for individuals who dream big, work hard, and above all stay humble. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do and through our work together we hope to create a supportive, welcoming, and innovative environment. We strive to play as a team to win the world and create a better version of ourselves every day. If this sounds like something that excites you, we want to hear from you!

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At Miro, we strive to create and foster an environment of belonging and collaboration across cultural differences. Miro’s mission — Empower teams to create the next big thing — is how we think about our product, people, and culture. We believe that creating big things requires diverse and inclusive teams. Diversity invites all talent with different demography, identities and styles to step in, and inclusion invites them to step closer together. Every day, we are working to build a more diverse Miro, cultivate a sense of belonging for future and current Mironeers around the world, and foster an environment where everyone can collaborate and embrace differences.

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Here are some helpful tips to ensure you have all the correct information throughout our hiring process.

  • 01. Recruiter Screen

    A 30-min interview to discuss your relevant skills, perspective on resilience, experience, and what motivates you to join Miro.

  • 02. Hiring Manager

    The hiring manager will meet to discuss your experience and fit for the role by assessing whether you align with the Miro Mindset (Curiosity, Drive, Resilience, Empathy, Cognitive Agility & Accountability). This interview usually takes 90-120 minutes.

  • 03. Skill Assesment

    An interactive presentation to see your skills in action, based around a particular case study or business problem.

  • 04. Meet the Team

    Here you will meet cross-functional stakeholders, and we will ask evidence-based questions to evaluate how well you align with the role and Miro's values and culture.

  • 05. Leadership Round

    Meet a member of the leadership team to discuss Miro’s company values and share your vision for success at Miro. 

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