About Optiml

Optiml is revolutionizing real estate with our Real Estate Decision Intelligence (REDI) software—a new category of AI-powered technology that helps decarbonize buildings while optimizing asset & portfolio performance.

Since our launch in April 2024, we have been scaling across Europe and the US, receiving significant industry recognition and winning three major PropTech awards, including:
🏆 2024 ULI Europe PropTech of the Year
🏆 2024 ZIA PropTech of the Year

We are backed by $6M in pre-seed funding from top-tier US and EU funds, including Innovation Endeavors (the fund of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt), Planet A, BitStone, and Kompas.

• Lead design and user experience (UX) for parts of our core product
• Ship deliverables (prototypes, UX flows, wireframes, UI mockups) to communicate and experiment with ideas
• Partner with team leads to prioritize initiatives in the roadmap
• Break down ambiguous problems & prioritize high impact work given some resource constraints
• Empathize with enterprise customers, impersonate them, identify their pain points and advocate to address them on a continual basis
• Distill insights from all parts of the organization into updated beliefs and eventually design principles
• Shape the design practice within the organization (documentation, workflows, frameworks) to support all design collaborators (Remote included)

Who we are looking for

• Embrace Challenges: You prioritize speed and flexibility, adept at making swift compromises to maintain momentum.
• Push The Limits: You are able to quickly and efficiently execute tasks, demonstrating strong initiative and self-drive.
• Inspire Others: You bring kindness and humor to the team, enhancing both morale and collaboration.
• Champion The Customer: Your meticulous attention to detail ensures excellence in product aesthetics and functionality.

Must have

• 5+ years of experience in tech/startup company
• Extraordinary visual design skills and strong understanding of UX principles
• Proven experience designing data rich enterprise applications
• Ability to interface with business stakeholders
• Strong leadership & communication skills, capable of framing design decisions with clarity and intent.
• Strong collaboration skills with product teams shipping software
• Experience with prototyping

Nice to have:

• Experience in Service Design Thinking and Customer Experience (CX)
• Understanding of software engineering workflows
• Experience with user interviews, user testings or UX research

• Direct impact on the product and go-to-market direction of Optiml
• Unique opportunity to learn: try, fail, iterate, and build new skills every day - in a culture that values growth & development individually and as a team
• Learning and development budget of CHF 1k (conferences, certificates, etc.).
• Shit happens: 100% accident non-occupational accident insurance (UVG) covered.
• Flexible parental leave.

Please include your design portfolio in the application