Product Designer (UX/UI) - Digital Solutions (m/f/d)

About Us

A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi-cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there’s something for everyone to get stuck into. And that’s where you come in.

Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany (Hybrid)

At Hitachi Rail, we are driving sustainable mobility transition by making rail transportation safer, more efficient and more attractive. Our technologies enable billions of people to reach their destinations in a climate-friendly way. With 24,000 employees in more than 50 countries, we are a reliable partner for the world's best transportation companies.

Product Designer (UX/UI) - Digital Solutions (m/f/d) (Ref.No. R1011667) at our location in Berlin

You will enjoy having this responsibility:

As a Product Designer (UX/UI) - Digital Solutions (m/f/d) in the Digital Competence Center, you shape user-centric digital experiences across complex industrial and rail-related environments. You translate user needs and operational workflows into intuitive and effective solutions, combining strong user experience thinking with high-quality and consistent interface design. You drive design excellence across digital transformation initiatives. With your strong design mindset, you play a key role in embedding human-centered and design-driven thinking throughout the organization

It also involves the following tasks:

• Leading user research activities such as interviews, field studies, and workflow analyses  is part of your core responsibilities

• You translate research insights into user journeys, personas, and service blueprints to drive meaningful design decisions

• By designing wireframes, user flows, and prototypes, you bring intuitive digital solutions to life.

• With a strong eye for detail, you create high-quality user interfaces (UI) that ensure usability, consistency, and visual clarity

• You actively contribute to shaping and evolving our design system, including components, styles, and interaction patterns

• Working closely with cross-functional teams, you translate complex technical and operational requirements into intuitive user experiences

• You facilitate workshops, co-creation sessions, and actively advocate for user-centered design across initiatives

• In addition, you conduct usability testing and continuously improve solutions based on user feedback and data insights

You have:

• You hold a degree in UX Design, HCI, Interaction Design, or a related field, or comparable professional experience

• You bring several years of experience in designing digital products, ideally within complex technical or industrial environments

• You have strong skills in UI Design

• A strong portfolio demonstrating your UX process, problem-solving skills, and design execution is part of your profile

• Proficiency in modern design and prototyping tools (e.g. Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Axure) is expected

• Solid knowledge of UX methodologies, interaction design, accessibility, and information architecture belong to your competency profile

• Strong communication skills, a user-first mindset, and the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders complete your profile

Our Talent Acquisition Team is ooking forward to hearing from you

+49 (0) 152 59 10 1539

Ioanna Sapountzi

We look forward to receiving your application in just a few clicks via our career portal.

For further information about Hitachi Rail as an employer visit us on www.hitachirail.com/careers

About us

Our motivation and focus is the mobility transition. Our teams develop innovative products and solutions to achieve this. With our global expertise, we cover the entire rail system - from rolling stock and maintenance to control and safety technology, digital control and smart ticketing systems.

Our projects are diverse. To make our teams even stronger, we are looking for your support. In return, we offer you an attractive overall package with the following benefits:

• Stronger Together: Networking through internal networks and working in international teams

• Our Drive: Together, we are laying the foundations for the digitization of the rail world in Germany and around the world, to get people safely to their destinations and to their loved ones!

• Flexible Working: We offer you flexible working models such as flexitime and hybrid working

• Attractive Conditions: A secure and permanent job with a global company

Notes

Equal opportunities and self-determined participation of severely disabled persons and persons of equal status as well as respectful cooperation are firmly anchored principles within the Hitachi Group and its subsidiaries. For this reason, we give preferential treatment to severely disabled applicants and those with equal status who are of comparable aptitude.

We also aim to offer all our candidates - irrespective of their social or ethnic origin, their gender, their religion or ideology, their age or their sexual identity and orientation - equal opportunities to start a career and to receive training and further education in our company. We consciously promote diversity and togetherness in our teams.

Thank you for your interest in Hitachi Rail. If your application is of interest, we will be in contact. Please do not hesitate to discover more about us and our latest jobs at https://www.hitachirail.com/careers.

At Hitachi Rail, there is a place for everyone. We welcome and value differences in background, age, gender, sexuality, family status, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and world view. It is our commitment to create an inclusive environment - we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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