About The Company
GROPYUS is a technology-based construction company focused on building multi-story residential buildings. Thanks to its prefabricated building system with various design options, industrial offsite construction, and fully digitalized processes, the company manufactures aspirational, sustainable, and affordable homes using timber construction methods. GROPYUS is using scalable construction and manufacturing solutions to tap into a future market, boost Europe's strength in innovation, while also playing a substantial role in improving sustainability.
About the Role:
Join GROPYUS as a Product Designer and step into the future of digital construction. You'll design solutions that connect advanced manufacturing with construction execution, making complex processes, from the factory floor to the building site, intuitive, human-centered, and impactful.
We're seeking a designer who is curious, hands-on, and eager to grow. Someone who thrives at the intersection of digital tools, construction methods, and human workflows, and who wants to turn data, insights, and prototypes into solutions tested directly in the field.
In this role, you'll expand your responsibility and ownership, working closely with expert engineers and a product manager who advocates for the user. You'll observe operations, gather feedback, and translate insights into design solutions that support both today's projects and tomorrow's vision of autonomous construction.
What we value most: a mindset of curiosity and collaboration. Someone who takes initiative, asks sharp questions, and helps align cross-functional teams around clear, evidence-based design.
What makes this role unique:
- Direct impact on how construction is executed through design.
- Bridge between digital factory tools and advanced construction methods.
- Work alongside seasoned engineers and a user advocate Product Manager.
- Designs that are tested directly in live operations and projects.
What To Expect:
- Take ownership of the design of your product.
- Advocate user-centered design approaches by running usability and concept testing with real users in live operations.
- Translate complex flows into clear, tested design solutions.
- Collaborate effectively with design, product management, research and insights, and engineering teams.
- Contribute to our GROPYUS Design Language System, ensuring consistency as we develop new components and interaction models.
- Share your work openly, give and receive feedback to foster a collaborative, growth-oriented design culture.
- Opportunity to expand your expertise and take on greater responsibility as the technology evolves.
Experience and Skills
- Degree in Product, Interaction, Visual Design, related Design disciplines, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 4 years of proven product design experience, ideally within a startup or entrepreneurial setting.
- Demonstrated expertise in responsive digital design, visual design principles, and prototyping techniques.
- Demonstrated proficiency working within and contributing to a structured Design System, including component governance, token usage, and maintaining consistency at scale.
- Comfort using AI-assisted tools (e.g. Claude Code, Nano Banana, etc) to support research synthesis, rapid ideation, and workflow efficiency, with a genuine curiosity to keep evolving how they are used to disclose individual and team potential.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills in English; German language proficiency at B2 level or above is required.
- A strong portfolio showcasing high-quality UX/UI design work (see note below about Portfolio).
Personal Attributes
- Passion for design excellence, continuous growth, and a feedback-first culture.
- Proactive mindset with a strong sense of ownership and positive attitude.
- Pragmatic problem solver with analytical, data-driven thinking.
- Adaptability in fast-changing and uncertain environments.
- Resilience in the face of challenges, maintaining focus and progress.
- Curious to ask, explore, and turn complex systems into intuitive experiences.
Portfolio [Read carefully]
Please share a link to your portfolio - this is the most critical asset you can provide as a designer. Only apply if your portfolio has:
- Recent Work Samples (not full case studies) - We want to see final outcomes of your design work. Focus on polished, high-quality fidelity prototypes or flow videos you are proud of
- Clear Impact - Demonstrate how users interact with what you've built. Communicate what you worked on, why it mattered, and the impact it had.
- Include a range of work to show your versatility, with a focus on the past 3 years.
NB: If your portfolio is password-protected, be sure to include the password in your application.
Feel free to share anything else that shows us who you are beyond the work: communities you contribute to, side projects, mentoring, events you attend or organize, or interests that shape the way you think and design.
What We Offer:
- An unlimited contract with 30 vacation days.
- Flexible, hybrid work: You can work from home or come into the office on the schedule that works best for you. Feel like traveling and working from another location? No problem. Tune into meetings and work from abroad for up to 40 days per year. In addition, flex hours allow you to prioritize important moments in your day.
- Attractive perks and benefits: We offer a company pension scheme, language courses (English/German), and employee discounts with selected sustainable brands. Furthermore, our external partners in mental health support you in strengthening your mental health through anonymous private/group sessions.
- Virtual Shares Program: Participate in the success of GROPYUS through our Virtual Share Program.
- Ownership: You can truly make your mark with your work and contributions – on all our organizational levels. Find your solutions, drive and test them.
- The chance to be part of something big: Our mission is to rethink an entire industry. Join us in reinventing construction and fostering sustainable, affordable living.
- A diverse and enriching work environment: Become a valued member of a wonderfully diverse team of individuals from over 50 countries. At GROPYUS we value inclusion above all, ensuring that everyone feels they belong – no matter their background. In this way, our differences become strengths that help us grow as a team.
