Design at Idealdevs is embedded, not decorative. Designers join engagements at discovery, run user interviews alongside engineers, prototype in code-adjacent tools, and stay through launch. As a senior product designer in our Lisbon hub you will lead the design track on one or two client engagements at a time, typically B2B products with dense workflows: dispatcher dashboards, clinical tools, financial back offices. The craft bar is high and the aesthetic is restrained; we design for people who use these products eight hours a day.
You will also contribute to our design-system practice: token architectures, component libraries, and the documentation and governance that let client teams own what we hand over. We work hybrid from the Rua da Prata studio, with two anchor days a week and a design crit every Friday that engineers regularly crash, which we encourage.
What you'll do
- Lead end-to-end design on client engagements: research, flows, prototypes, and production-ready specs
- Plan and run discovery workshops and user interviews with client stakeholders
- Build and document design systems, tokens, components, and usage guidance, for client handover
- Pair with engineers during implementation to keep quality high through the last mile
- Present and defend design decisions to client leadership with evidence, not taste
- Contribute to internal design standards, crit culture, and portfolio case studies
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of product design experience with shipped B2B or workflow-heavy products
- A portfolio demonstrating systems thinking: information architecture, complex states, and edge cases
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining a design system used by multiple teams
- Fluency in modern design tooling and comfort working directly from and into design tokens
- Experience conducting user research and translating it into product decisions
- Clear English communication; comfortable presenting to executives
Nice to have
- Working knowledge of HTML/CSS or React sufficient to prototype and to argue with engineers precisely
- Experience in regulated domains (health, finance) and accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2)
- Motion design sensibility, you know when 200 milliseconds is too long
- Portuguese language skills