(Senior) UX Designer Paid Subscriptions - Chefkoch (m/w/d)

(Senior) UX Designer Paid Subscriptions – Chefkoch (m/w/d) – FUNKE

Location: Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Chefkoch is Europe’s largest food platform. With over 380,000 recipes, we engage up to 20 million users each month on our website and mobile apps. In the Journey Team “Paid Subscriptions” we focus on making cooking simpler, inspiring, and stress‑free for millions of people – through premium experiences that deliver real value.

The team behind Chefkoch PLUS shapes everything that makes our paid offering stand out: intelligent weekly planners, smart ingredient reuse, exclusive content, and features that noticeably ease our users’ cooking day. Our goal: attract more people to Chefkoch PLUS and keep them as satisfied, active subscribers over the long term.

Responsibilities

• You lead the user experience in Paid Subscriptions – from concept through prototyping to final interface.
• You collaborate closely with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering to develop user‑centric solutions that delight paid users and support business goals.
• You translate user needs and business objectives into clear, intuitive, and engaging UX concepts, using research, testing, and data analysis to validate hypotheses and continuously optimize.
• You benchmark the market, identify best practices, and incorporate findings into new and ongoing feature development.
• You develop designs that respect the existing design system, flows, and interaction patterns, ensuring they are scalable and emotionally compelling.
• You bring a clear UX perspective to strategic discussions and ensure both users and business benefit.
• You work closely with other UX and UI designers as reciprocal sparring partners for ideas, learnings, and cross‑team product vision.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience as a UX designer, ideally in mobile apps, digital subscription models, or digital media.
• Leads you towards user‑centric, holistic thinking – from experience to usability to conversion.
• You can translate complex requirements into simple, effective design solutions.
• You stay updated on UX trends and other digital market developments and make them useful for your work.
• You are proficient with UX research methods, prototyping, and tools such as Figma, Miro, or similar.
• You understand business goals and KPIs and know how good design can measurably lift product success.
• You have experience with Agile frameworks (Scrum/Kanban) and enjoy working in interdisciplinary teams.

Benefits

• Innovation meets tradition: you shape the digital transformation of our media group.
• Develop yourself with us: we provide access to coaching, workshops, or online training via the FUNKE Academy.
• Flexible work: we offer a hybrid model that prioritizes work‑life balance.
• Teamwork: you’ll encounter a dynamic team, an open feedback culture, short communication paths, and a friendly atmosphere.
• Corporate benefits: we provide a benefit portal with attractive discounts and subscriptions.
• Stay fit and healthy: benefit from our partnerships with various fitness clubs and receive personalised consultations for mental and physical health.

Send your application to Jennifer Bay .

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

Industry: Book and Periodical Publishing

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