Senior UX Designer

Vision Group is an online market-leader for contact lenses with 5 online brands, B2C, B2B2C and B2B offers and multiple touchpoints (webshops, mobile app, point of sale). 

We’re in a transformational growth stage, maintaining start-up spirit. What does that look like? Refocusing on our customers, building out our portfolio of products, growing in Swiss and European markets and implementing our first design system to help unlock our team’s potential to drive impact. We’re also starting to explore conversational interfaces and other opportunities that genAI offers. As a company, we believe that great design isn’t just about aesthetics—it’s about solving real problems and creating intuitive experiences. Now, we’re looking for a pioneering UX Designer to level up user experience for end customers and our partner opticians. 

• Hybrid, with a great office culture: Zurich / Dietlikon

• Language: English, and either German or French are musts

• 80-100%

• Target start date: 1 October 2025

As our first dedicated UX hire working with our Head of Product (who will support you, with her UX leadership background), you’ll lead the charge in defining and crafting delightful, highly-usable experiences. You’ll work across product, marketing, and engineering teams to deeply understand our users, streamline interactions, and establish a scalable design approach. Your work will directly influence the way customers engage with our products.

• Design intuitive experiences – Craft wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI to improve customer engagement (using our Design System).

• Advocate for the user – Champion user-centered design within the company and educate teams on UX best practices.

• Conduct user research – Partner with product managers to lead discovery efforts, including strategic user interviews and usability tests to inform product decisions.

• Collaborate cross-functionally – Work with product managers, engineers, and other partners in the company to bring research-driven insights to life.

• Measure & iterate – Use qualitative and quantitative data to refine designs and enhance user satisfaction.

• Establish UX foundations – Evolve our design system, ensuring consistency and usability.

• You bring strong skills and experience in interaction design. We expect you will have collected these experiences while also performing user research and usability testing.

• You are comfortable serving as an advocate for users and customers - learning about their needs through appropriate methods and bringing well-founded and brave recommendations into the company to guide decision making and great design.

• You are proficient in Figma, with a strong visual and interaction design sense.

• You love learning - including with new generations of tools (genAI-supported prototyping etc.). 

• You’re a strong storyteller—you can sell ideas and influence decision-making.

• You thrive working with product teams in a startup or growth-stage company and in distributed organizations.

• Make a lasting impact – Thanks to your work, people will have better visual solutions with contact lenses. You’ll shape the UX practice in our company

• Drive customer-first thinking – Help refine how we build products

• Collaborate with passionate teams – Work with product, marketing, and engineering teams that value design

• Career growth – You’ll have room to grow and lead future design efforts

• Annual global get-together

• Free subscription of our entire product range

• Yearly training budget

If you’re excited about building UX as a practice, we’d love to hear from you!