UX Designer to Instabridge

Stockholm Headhunting has been commissioned to find a passionate UX Designer to the goodwill company Instabridge located in the city center of Stockholm. Instabridge is developing an app that gives you free internet in your smartphone with the mission to build a wifi sharing community in every city on the planet.

About Instabridge

Instabridge is a Swedish start-up, founded in 2012, with the vision to change the world by delivering free internet to everyone. They believe the internet is a basic human right - an essential component to connecting people, reducing inequality, and improving well-being as technology gains greater influence over our lives. They have over 150 000 active community members helping them to bring freely accessible internet to everyone and over 2.2 million users of which Brazil is the biggest market. They have exciting challenges ahead focusing on new markets, like Mexico and India to name a few.

The company is financially backed by the Swedish/Finnish company Moor and the British venture capital firm Balderton Capital. At the moment Instabridge consisst of 21 co-workers from 8 different countries - 15 in Stockholm, four in Brazil and one in Mexico. By joining their team you get the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of one of Europe’s hottest startups, working with the best tools that money can buy. Instabridge offers you competitive pay and generous stock options program, ITP1, health care contribution and flexible working hours. You can read more about the company here.

About the role

As a part of the Product team you will work in a close relationship to the UX/UI Designer, Data Scientist and Product Owner based in Stockholm and the User Researchers in Brazil and Mexico. 

Your responsibilities will include:

- Translate concepts into wireframes and mockups that lead to intuitive user experiences, bringing simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks

- Help define product requirements and play an active lead role in feedback and iteration during the product life cycle

- Create simple and innovative solutions that balance business requirements with users’ needs

- Act as a user advocate to ensure the highest level of usability, engagement and visual excitement

- Translate data-driven insights from qualitative and quantitative research results into experience requirements and team up with other designers to achieve high quality deliverables working closely with the product and technology team

What Instabridge is looking for

To succeed in this role we believe that you have at least a couple of years experience from a similar position. UX is your thing and you have a passion for creating experiences that engage users and solve complex problems. You are driven and excited about diving deep to understand the challenges that people face accessing the Internet. You get motivated by working in a startup environment and be a part of a diverse, multicultural team with people from all around the world. With a mind for strategy and an eye for design, you are creative, curious and believe in Agile methodologies.

Apply

Do you find the position interesting? Please apply through our webpage as soon as possible as we go through the applications as we receive them. If you have questions about the position or the company you are welcome to contact Ida Linnertorp at 070 747 09 82 or [email protected]. We look forward hearing from you!