UX Designer

Key Facts
buycycle is hiring a UX Designer to shape critical product experiences.

We're at an exciting inflection point. What started as a focused vertical for bikes and bike parts is now expanding into dozens of sports categories. This is a craft-heavy, impact-heavy role—your work will directly shape the experience for tens of thousands of users every day.

buycycle & you
Why you should join buycycle today

We're scaling from one vertical to many. This is the moment to join a design team that's solving the challenges of multi-category expansion while maintaining the trust and quality that made buycycle successful. You'll help define the patterns and systems that scale across sports.

Your craft will have immediate impact. This isn't a role where your work gets lost in layers of process. You'll own critical product experiences—buyer and seller journeys, pre and post-transaction flows—and see your designs live in front of real users daily.

We're a tight, high-ownership team. With just two designers, there's minimal hierarchy and maximum ownership. You'll work directly with PMs, engineers, and all relevant stakeholders to ship experiences that matter.

About the role
Why this role exists

Marketplaces are inherently complex—payments, shipping, trust, negotiations, buyer protection, seller incentives. Our job is to make that complexity invisible.

As we scale to multiple sports categories, we need someone with exceptional judgment: knowing when "good enough" is the perfect solution given constraints, and when outstanding is what the moment demands. This is about extreme pragmatism, not perfection for perfection's sake.

This is not a strategy-only role. We need a maker—someone who turns messy, complex problems into simple, seamless user experiences. Someone who ships smart solutions fast, and knows exactly when to obsess over the details.

If you have deep craft skills, extreme ownership, pragmatic judgment, and the autonomy to drive impact without waiting for direction, this is the role for you.

Your responsibilities
Day-to-Day Responsibilities

What you'll be doing:

• Owning critical product experiences—buyer and seller journeys, pre and post-transaction flows, across bikes, bike parts, and expanding sports categories.
• Turning complexity into simplicity—making payments, shipping, trust, and protection feel effortless while handling sophisticated marketplace dynamics.
• Defining scalable patterns—creating interaction models and design systems that work across multiple sports verticals.
• Prototyping and testing ideas—moving between different fidelities to validate decisions quickly.
• Collaborating cross-functionally—working closely with PMs, engineers, and customer service to define problems and ship solutions.
• Exercising pragmatic judgment—knowing when "good enough" ships value fast, and when exceptional craft is what the moment demands.
• Contributing to design culture—mentoring teammates, pushing for excellence, and sharing knowledge across the team.

What Success Looks Like

You'll know you're successful if:

• Complex experiences feel simple. Users effortlessly navigate buyer and seller journeys, pre and post-transaction flows—marketplace complexity is invisible to them.
• You ship smart, not just polished. You've delivered high-impact solutions quickly by knowing exactly when "good enough" creates the most value.
• Key metrics improve. Conversion rates, transaction completion, user satisfaction—the experiences you own are measurably better.
• You operate autonomously. You see what needs to be done and do it—no hand-holding required.
• Your cross-functional partners trust you. PMs bring you into problem definition early. Engineers find your designs clear and implementable. Customer service sees fewer friction points.
• You've helped scale the product. The patterns and systems you create enable buycycle to expand into new sports seamlessly.

About you
Must Have Experience

We're looking for a world-class IC designer who:

• Has shipped e-commerce or marketplace products. You understand conversion optimization, user trust, and C2C dynamics.
• Designs across surfaces—desktop, mobile and app.
• Balances speed and detail—knows when to move fast and when to obsess over the last 1%.
• Thinks in systems—considers scalability and long-term implications in every decision.
• Masters Figma and design systems—you're fluent in creating and maintaining scalable design architecture.
• Understands data and research—comfortable interpreting quantitative insights and user feedback to inform decisions.
• Has proven AI experience—you've integrated AI tools into your design process and understand their potential.
• Operates with extreme ownership—solves problems at all costs, steps into bigger responsibilities without being asked.
• Collaborates with humility—takes feedback well, challenges ideas respectfully, and checks ego at the door.
• Has taste. You know what great design looks and feels like, and you push to get there.

Who This Role Is Not For

This role is not for you if:

• You prefer strategy over execution—this is a craft-heavy, hands-on role.
• You need structure and direction—you should thrive in ambiguity and fast-paced chaos.
• You don't obsess over details—we need someone who sweats the pixels while knowing when to zoom out.
• You haven't worked in startups—resource constraints should be opportunities, not obstacles.
• You don't buy into buycycle's mission—bonus points if you have an active sports hobby or niche interest that connects with our mission.

The process
Interview Process

We respect your time and aim to be transparent and efficient. Expect the entire process to take no more than 3-4 weeks:

Stage 1 - Get to Know Each Other (Online)A conversation to understand each other's expectations, your experience, and whether there's mutual fit.

Stage 2 - Deep Dive (One Day in Munich Office)

• Meet the team in person
• Work on a design case together
• Present your approach and thinking
• Experience how we collaborate day-to-day

Stage 3 - Alignment & Offer (Online or In-Person)At this stage, Stage 2 feedback will have been positive. We'll align on expectations, conditions, and finalize details to get you onboard.

Location: Munich-based, hybrid with 4 days per week in office.

About us

We are the leading marketplace for pre-owned bikes. Since our founding in 2021, we've achieved significant milestones, including operations in over 30 countries and the opening of offices in Munich, Berlin, and Santa Monica. Our mission is to make buying and selling bikes safe, quick, and easy for everyone. We redefine personal transportation and ensure biking is accessible to all.

Join buycycle and be a key player in shaping a fast-growing, dynamic company from the ground up.

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