Mid-senior levelLeuven, BelgiumHybridFull-timeEngineering
UI/UX Designer
Leuven, Belgium
Engineering
Hybrid
Full-time
To strengthen our team, and ensure the quality of our software portfolio, we are looking for a UI/UX Designer.
What you will do
- Carefully analyze customers' needs and the competition
- Translate abstract ideas into concepts, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes in collaboration with the business stakeholders and customers
- Help define the personas and the user flows of the product
- Ensure the product owner, functional analyst, and development team are aligned on the designs and translation of the users’ needs into the product
- Validate and adapt solutions with business stakeholders through user testing
- Implement a user-centered approach to iterate over your solutions
- Collaborate with the development team and support further developments
- Apply your UX/UI skills to translate complex workflows into simple and great-looking interfaces
- Build and cultivate the design system for use by the development teams
- Take the lead in complex projects and manage the communication lines with all involved stakeholders
- Work in an international environment collaborating with agile development teams
- Ensure and reinforce Materialise branding across our software applications
- Apply design thinking, research methodologies, and UX principles to products and processes
Your profile
- You have a degree in UX or a similar field
- You’re fluent in English
- You have at least 3 years of experience as a UX/UI designer or in a similar role
- You have experience designing technically complex, digital B2B products — not just apps or websites
- You have experience weighing priorities in your designs, clearly distinguishing which parts are must-haves versus nice-to-haves, and making trade-offs between usability and technical complexity
- You have experience taking the lead in complex projects and can coach other team members
- You have a strong portfolio or can show relevant work during the interview process
- You’re an expert in modern design tools like Figma and Adobe Illustrator (or similar tools like Sketch, Adobe XD, or others).
- You know how to design and build a design system: experience with one or more design systems is a plus (e.g., Bootstrap, Clarity Design System, Spectrum, Fluent UI, BlueprintJs, ...)
- You like to turn ideas into wireframes or prototypes to get early user feedback and iterate
- You focus on building the right thing: understanding the problem is important to you
- You care a lot about usability and consistency and can create outstanding responsive UIs
- You know why the optimization of the user experience makes the difference when developing high-performance products
- You have excellent communication skills; you can coordinate communication plans across teams and towards higher management levels
Location and type of contract
- Leuven, Belgium
- Full-time
- Hybrid
- Mid-senior level
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Working at Materialise
Materialise is a dynamic, international high-tech company, founded in 1990 and headquartered in Belgium, with over 2,300 employees worldwide. Materialise’s mission is to innovate for a better and healthier world through its software and hardware infrastructure and in-depth knowledge of additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing). Our customers are in diverse industries, such as automotive, aerospace, medical, research, and academia.
As a growing company, Materialise is always looking for enthusiastic professionals who want to work in an environment full of revolutionary technology and surrounded by people passionate about their work.
Benefits
Having a healthy work-life balance
When creating a better and healthier world, a good place to start is with yourself. That’s why we encourage our employees to stay fit both physically and mentally by offering sports workshops and flexible hours with the possibility of working remotely.
Personal growth and career opportunities
Materialise invests in people and want to see them grow in a career that fits them best. We offer personal training to every employee, so they can access every available career opportunity.
Team building
It’s also important to enjoy working at Materialise. With initiatives such as memorable team-building activities, lively after-work drinks, and team lunches, we’re building a work environment in which our employees feel good.
Innovation is key
Innovation isn’t an empty word at Materialise. We create and deliver high-tech solutions in additive manufacturing. Innovation and leadership by our employees is both encouraged and rewarded.
