Overall objective/Purpose of position
The Senior UX/UI Designer is responsible for building scalable design systems that support brand
consistency, ensure usability and workflow efficiency. They also are responsible for the customer journey
and front-end experience of the Miele digital platforms.
▪ Through collaboration with designers and delivery team members, the Senior UX/UI Designer manages the
digital design system guidelines and lead the implementation efforts across multiple platforms. Through
design thinking activities, conducting usability & A/B tests, and studying data, they continuously refine the
user experience. This role has an end-to-end responsibility for frontend design, from ideating and
prototyping to delivering and optimizing features.
Key responsibilities
▪ Manage and create digital design system and component libraries. Collaborate with designers to ensure
consistency. Manage cross-team designer workflow. Ensure usability and accessibility of guidelines.
▪ Create customer-centric e-Commerce customer journeys and translate requirements into brand and
product story.
▪ Design wireframes and UI assets that consider all use cases and represent the premium brand.
▪ Conduct Design Thinking workshops to best understand the customer’s decision-making process.
▪ Create A/B and Usability Tests to gain learnings, conduct competitor reviews and customer surveys, and
monitor website data to gain insights for design decisions
Competencies/Skills for position
▪ Ideally university degree in Design, Technology, Marketing, or have similar
experience within a related field
▪ 7+ years’ experience in UX/UI design
▪ Digital design portfolio with experience managing Design Systems
▪ Foundational experience working for a premium brand in consumer or FMCG industry
▪ Have a collaborative team spirit and always striving to learn new things
▪ Experienced in agile ways of working
▪ International mindset, and fluent business English
▪ Excellent prototyping and design skills and a deep understanding of new
software/web technologies
▪ Have a customer-centric creative mindset and can review both qualitative and
quantitative data to inform design decisions
Since being founded in 1899 Miele has followed its 'Immer Besser' brand promise.
As the world’s leading manufacturer of premium domestic appliances, we create delightful experiences – not only with regard to the quality of our products, but also in terms of performance, convenience, design and sustainability. For our customers, this means the peace of mind of knowing that choosing Miele is a good decision – and probably the decision of a lifetime.
Our product portfolio includes kitchen appliances such as ovens, steam ovens, refrigerators, coffee machines and dishwashers as well as vacuum cleaners, washing machines and dryers. Dishwashers, washer-extractors and tumble dryers for commercial use as well as washer-disinfectors and sterilisers for use in medical applications augment this line-up.
Miele is a family-run company in the fourth generation with eight production plants in Germany as well as one plant each in Austria, the Czech Republic, China and Romania. The company is represented with its own sales subsidiaries and via importers in almost 100 countries. In the 2020 fiscal year, the Miele Group achieved sales of 4.5 bn, 6.5% more than in 2019. Miele employs around 20,944 people worldwide.
