UX Lead

Hello there! 👋🏻
Here at Savvie, we’re looking for a purpose-driven User Experience Lead who is passionate about supporting local businesses and wants to play a key role in growing an impact-focused start-up while contributing to sustainability by reducing food waste.

Our vision is to end the dominance of global chains by giving local food businesses the tools they need to thrive. If you’re enthusiastic about leveraging tech to revolutionize the food service industry, and transform the way food businesses operate - we urge you to apply.

About us:
We are a passionate food tech startup which leverages AI to help food businesses boost profits while reducing waste. Our user-friendly mobile-first digital assistant contributes to the triple bottom line of helping businesses, society, and the planet.

Our app for business optimization leverages data and machine learning models to help food businesses make the right decisions to improve their operations and increase profitability while reducing food waste at its source. Savvie is highly intuitive and requires no training.

Since incorporating in May 2020, we have secured more than 10M NOK in funding, built a robust product and commercialized it in the Norwegian market. Our app is currently used daily in 21 shops including Åpent Bakeri, Ille Brød and Oslo Raw. We’re currently a passionate team of 7 nationalities who are determined to make an impact by supporting local businesses, and eliminating millions of tons of food waste.

*What’s in it for you: *

• Fast-track your development - Our rapid growth will allow you to accelerate your professional development - there are endless opportunities to learn, grow, and feel empowered to realize your full potential
• Making a real impact - Businesses using Savvie have seen an 80% reduction in food waste with 90% more accurate sales forecasts, this has also led to a significant increase in earnings for local businesses. By joining our team, you will play a direct role in supporting local businesses and drastically reducing food waste
• You call the shots - we have a super flat structure and we give you full autonomy over your tasks, you will have the space to be creative and come up with your own ideas and solutions
• Flexibility to work your way - Some of us are early birds, and others find the most zen in the middle of the night - here at Savvie, you have the freedom to work when you want, how you want, from where you want!

Your mission:

• Lead UX design for the entire app and guide a team of designers
• Review and integrate the work of fellow designers to ensure a seamless and unified experience
• Work collaboratively in a cross-functional team, while providing design leadership in a fast-paced and agile environment
• Work closely with founders and developers, providing your design perspective to ensure a unified and cohesive experience throughout the Savvie app
• Conduct user needs assessment, task analysis, and develop user personas; identify key tasks for user research, competitive analysis, and testing
• Rapidly iterate on wireframes to map out alternatives for important design decisions
• Participate in documentation development processes such as defining user experience specifications, engaging in user testing and synthesizing findings
• Create end-to-end detailed design deliverables in a series of Information architecture, wireframes, flowcharts and interactive prototypes

You’re a great fit if you have:

• Relevant formal education
• 4+ of UX experience
• Eagerness to lead a small design team
• A passion for leveraging design to simplify and streamline complicated features and functionality
• Significant experience designing and delivering best-in-class digital experiences
• A user-centric design approach that involves rapid testing and iteration
• Exceptional skills with standard UX software such as Figma
• An understanding of how design translates to code
• The ability to use prototyping tools to convey design intent
• A demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities on concurrent, rigorous deadlines in a fast-paced dynamic environment
• The ability to be a UX advocate and to challenge diverse stakeholders if needed
• Strong self-leadership, interpersonal and communication skills
• Given the breadth and speed of our work, it’s important that you have a can-do attitude and that you are proactive, driven, and adaptable

Not checking off all the boxes?
We are happy to receive your application even if you do not have all the experience and skills listed above. Remember that other relevant experience and/or proven abilities in equivalent areas may be relevant. We trust and support people to build competence.

Benefits:

• We are transforming the food industry and helping your favorite neighborhood eateries not only survive the current pandemic but also stay competitive for the long run
• You’ll get the opportunity to join one of Forbes’ Top 25 ML startups of 2021, and one the 500 most innovative food tech companies in the world
• Passionate, driven, and diverse colleagues in a collaborative and social work environment
• An amazing network. We work with some of the best start-up advisors from around the globe and we frequently meet with the founders of Scandinavia’s most successful start-ups
• A place to be creative, receive honest feedback, and engage in open cooperation
• An office in central Oslo

Application deadline:
We’re moving at the speed of light, so we hope you can too - we will evaluate applicants on a rolling basis - please reach out at [email protected] if you have any questions!

We can’t wait to hear from you!