What you can expect at Packa
- Creative freedom: You will work directly with the Packa Leadership – early stage – founding team, giving you creative freedom from day one.
- Ownership: You will be part of a highly motivated, diverse, and successful team and will have a high degree of freedom and responsibility from the outset.
- Hybrid working: You will work in a great office in Berlin – Prenzlauer Berg
- Leadership: You will work in a company with an inspiring vision, led by an experienced founding team and supported by leading investors!
- Appreciation and commitment: We believe in fair compensation and you will benefit from a clear path for growth and development.
- Impact: You will shape the processes that companies use to make packaging more sustainable and reduce their carbon footprint.
Your tasks
- Champion users and outcomes: Keep a user-first perspective in every decision, ensuring that design delivers meaningful outcomes for users and measurable impact for the business.
- Conduct user research and discovery: Lead interviews and workshops to understand customer needs, packaging workflows, and pain points.
- Translate insights into solutions: Turn user and business requirements (e.g., LCA, recyclability) into actionable design concepts and product features.
- Collaborate with Product Owner: Align on scope, user value, and business impact during discovery and ensure shared understanding throughout development.
- Support implementation: Work closely with engineering to maintain design intent and adapt to technical realities.
- Analyze and improve: Use data and feedback to continuously enhance usability, functionality, and overall product experience.
What you bring with you
- Experience: At least 3 years of professional experience in Product Design, ideally in SaaS B2B environments.
- Track record: Proven experience in designing and shipping digital products end-to-end – from first concept to live product – supported by a strong, visual portfolio.
- Design expertise: Deep understanding of interaction design, systems thinking, and user experience principles, with the ability to bring clarity to complex or ambiguous problems.
- Collaboration: Ability to work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and domain experts, balancing different perspectives and priorities. You ask questions, explore options, and connect insights to create better solutions.
- Adaptability: Comfortable working in evolving environments, knowing when to push for excellence and when to move quickly.
- Tools: Strong command of Figma (3+ years of daily use) and familiarity with standard collaboration and research tools.
- Language: Native-level German and fluent English skills for effective collaboration across teams.
- Background: Degree, vocational training, or bootcamp in a relevant field – your practical experience matters most.
Top Skills
What We Do
Packmatic is the leading digital purchasing platform for customized packaging in Europe and brings more transparency and efficiency to the 160 billion packaging market. More than 200 customers (leading FMCG, industrial and e-commerce companies) use Packmatic to achieve savings potentials of 16% on average and to optimize their packaging according to current sustainability standards. Among the customers are well-known brand manufacturers as well as international retailers - including Zalando, YFOOD, CoffeeCircle, Lebensbaum, Pickerd, EGLO, Asphaltgold, and many more.
With more than 350 affiliated packaging suppliers, Packmatic has access to the largest supplier network in Europe and can access suppliers' machinery within a few clicks using its proprietary Smart Matching technology.
In addition to cost pressure, our customers are increasingly faced with the challenge of meeting stricter requirements in terms of recyclability, supply chain transparency and CO2 reduction. Packmatic provides support here thanks to smart features and deep sustainability expertise, ensuring their customers’ continued success in the future.
Learn more by filling out the form on this page, or by contacting us directly:
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www.packmatic.io
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