upday is a media and tech company and the leading news app in Europe with more than 25 million MAUs. Founded in 2016 as a joint project between Axel Springer and Samsung Electronics, upday became profitable after just 3 years in the market.  

If you’re looking to join a dynamic and international team full of fantastic talent that has the energy of a start-up but the stability of an established media company - look no further, we are your match! 

• You will be the senior designer in a constantly developing creative environment. Become a trusted advisor for product design related topics
• Take ownership in the areas of UI / UX App design
• Have a digital focus and an affinity for news and news products
• Take your role as a Senior Designer and you are able to coordinate other team members
• A general understanding and development skills of code (HTML5, CSS and JS) and digital marketing that helps you communicate with our developers
• Testing and improving the design and user experience of our products
• You are fluent in English. German or any other language is a plus

• You have at least 5 years of experience in App Design
• You possess a huge passion for graphic and App Designs
• You are experienced in designing successfully as well as human-centered digital experienced in a software product environment
• You have knowledge in building UI and designing for multiple platforms like Android, iOS, Web
• You know all about user flows, journeys and user testing
• You master programs like Figma, Creative Suite or any Prototyping Tool while your eyes are closed
• You are open-minded to innovations and have the ability to kill your darlings
• You have a proven ability to work autonomously and stay self-motivated
• You own a strong belief in the value of teamwork

Please note: To apply for this position it is mandatory to send in your portfolio of any relevant work you’ve done so far!

Why joining us? 

• New Work atmosphere with flat hierarchies, fast decision-making processes and an inspiring high-pace environment 
• A great opportunity to work with talented and diverse colleagues from different departments of the upday family (technology, product, marketing, editorial) 
• In addition to free drinks, fresh fruit, you will receive discounts in the Axel Springer canteen|restaurant and benefit from other advantages of belonging to the company 
• We are located in a brand new and terrific open-plan office in the heart of Berlin 
• This position is possible fully-remote or hybrid
• A lot of team building event such as summer party, lasertag, christmas party, boat party, karaoke 
• Frequent pizza and beer events and afterworks on our 360 rooftop 
• Queer seite regroups LGBTQIA + people working for AS group who organise events, talks and pushes LGBTQAI+ agenda within the AS group and drives new projects to make AS more inclusive. 
• Every year we do an employee nps survey to measure satisfaction 
• Feel free to check our alumnis reviews on Glassdoor & Kunulu 

What we offer? 

• We provide an onboarding in terms of office equipment in all of the regions and countries through an external service provider (Mac or Microsoft notebook, and Samsung phone) 
• We provide visa advisory support through a external service provider 
• We participate and or host a lot of amazing events such as Tech Con | Women in Tech | Women mentoring programm | Hackathons  | congresses | job fairs

Are you interested? Looking forward to reading your application! 
Your partner of contact for this position is Stella Bailleux.

In order to simplify the flow of reading, we restrict ourselves to masculine terms in the course of the text. Nevertheless, diversity is an essential part of our corporate culture! We are looking forward to receiving all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.

A small insight into how we live and implement diversity and inclusion at upday can be found here: https://www.diversity.axelspringer.com/di-stories/upday