Senior Product Designer (m/f/d) - freelance contract

Essen · Hybrid

About this role

Your mission

This is a backfill position covering the maternity leave of one of our Senior Product Designers, with the possibility of extending the collaboration beyond the initial contract based on business needs and mutual fit.

We are looking for a seasoned, well-rounded Product Designer with proven expertise in user research, UX design, and UI design. The ideal candidate has experience working in cross-functional teams and is comfortable taking ownership of the end-to-end product design process.

In addition to strong B2B experience, we are particularly interested in candidates who have worked on complex, data-heavy platforms.

Key responsibilities:

  • Design user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals in Figma/Lovable or Claude.
  • Iterate quickly through prototypes and user validation cycles.
  • Plan and execute Usability testing with researcher, including in-person interviews.
  • Advocate for user-centered thinking and elevate design quality across the product.
  • Translate insights into actionable design improvements.
  • Ensure visual consistency and scalability through a robust design system.
  • Collaborate closely with developers to ensure accurate and high-quality design implementation.

Your profile

Required skills and experience

  • At least 5 years of experience in end-to-end product design preferably in the B2B space.
  • Proven experience designing complex, data-heavy B2B platforms (e.g. analytics, reporting, workflow, or operational products); experience limited to B2B e-commerce or relatively straightforward business applications is not sufficient.
  • Comfortable with AI tools to like Figma, ChatGPT, Claude and Lovable to speed up workflows and design process.
  • Experience using product analytics tools such as PostHog, Mixpanel, or Amplitude to measure user behavior, evaluate product performance, and inform design decisions through data.
  • Experience working in cross-functional teams.
  • Excellent communication skills (both oral, written and visual) in English.

Nice to have skills and experience

  • B2-level German skills or higher
  • Strong analytical mindset and the ability to slide-and-dice product analytics data
  • Experience working in high-growth startup environments

Why us?

About us

Join TALPA and help shape the future of industrial analytics.

We harness advanced technology to transform how industries understand and improve equipment performance. Our platform supports a wide range of sectors, including mining, construction and logistics, by integrating real-time and historical data to deliver actionable insights and enhance operational efficiency.
At TALPA, we foster a culture of exploration and empathy, where collaboration and accountability go hand in hand. We empower each other to take initiative, grow through challenges and contribute meaningfully to our shared mission.

Company at a glance

Industrial operations lose millions every year because of downtime, poor visibility, disconnected data, and slow decision making. Most fleets and heavy equipment still operate with incomplete information, siloed systems, and reactive processes.

Talpasolutions helps industrial companies turn operational data into clear insights that improve reliability, increase utilization, and reduce cost. We bring machine data, telematics, and operational context together so maintenance and operations teams can act faster and with confidence.

Our platform connects multi brand fleets, identifies patterns that predict failures, and delivers practical recommendations that improve performance. Whether you work in mining, construction, logistics, material handling, or heavy industry, you get one place to see what is happening across your operation.

We help teams move from gut feeling to fact based decisions. This leads to fewer failures, better planning, safer operations, and measurable savings across your equipment and processes.

What we deliver

Higher equipment availability

Reduced unplanned downtime

Improved fleet utilization

Clear insights from multi brand and multi system data

Early failure detection and predictive alerts

Better maintenance planning

Return on investment from day one

Who we serve

Mining operators

Construction companies

Industrial and material handling operations

Fleet managers

Reliability engineers

Operations directors

Heavy equipment owners and rental companies

Our belief

Good people should not look inefficient because of poor visibility. With the right insights, every operation can perform at its best

Founded2016
Team Size51-200 employees
WorkspaceHybrid
IndustryIT Services and IT Consulting
Location
Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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