Digital Product Designer - Football Startup

About Prematch

Prematch is the leading platform for non-professional football in Europe, bringing professional experiences — from news and data to gamification — directly to a community of over 190 million footballers and fans.

Founded in 2021 in Cologne, Prematch is a dynamic startup with a smart and ambitious team. Our marketing and business teams are based in Cologne, Berlin, and London, while our tech and product teams work remotely across Europe.

We’re backed by strong partners such as adidas, Krombacher, NIVEA MEN, and Techniker Krankenkasse — with a couple of exciting collaborations still in the pipeline. Successful investors like Ralf Reichert (CEO of ESL) and Verena Pausder are supporting us on our journey.

Responsibilities

• Area of responsibility: Product
• UX/UI Design: Design user-centric interfaces and experiences for mobile applications
• User Research: Conduct product discovery, user interviews and usability testing to gather insights and inform design decisions
• Prototyping: Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for new features and improvements
• Design Consistency: Ensure design consistency and coherence across the entire product
• Cross-Team Support: Take on further design tasks across departments (e.g. brand partnerships)

Requirements

• Experience: At least 2 years of relevant experience and feel confident in your role.
• Environment: You enjoy working in a growing team & startup environment.
• Product Design Experience: 2 years of proven experience as a Product Designer with a strong portfolio showcasing your design skills.
• Football Knowledge: Amateur football is not new to you - you’ve played yourself, and/or are still active in a club. You have a good feel for the people, processes, and challenges on and off the pitch.
• Languages: You’re fluent in German & English.
• User Research: Experience in conducting user research and usability testing.
• Visual Design: Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction.
• Design Principles: Solid understanding of user-centered design principles, interaction design, and responsive design.

Advantage but not a must

• Motion Design Skills are a plus.

What We Offer

• Location: 100% remote: you’re excited to work either from our offices in Cologne or fully remote — whatever suits you best.
• Start: Immediate (flexible)
• Workload: Full-time
• Impact: Be part of it from the start – Shape how Prematch grows and transforms amateur football.
• Salary: Competitive salary that you can be proud of.
• Ownership: Employee participation (VSOP) — directly benefit from the company’s success.
• Offices: Three cool offices in Cologne, Berlin, and London — true startup vibes to work and grow together. Want to visit another office? We support that too!
• Hybrid Work: Homeoffice — depending on your distance to the office, you work 1–3 days a week onsite and the rest flexibly remote (working from home at the start and end of the week is quite popular) — whatever suits you best. Tech & Product roles sometimes offer 100% remote.
• Remote Flexibility: Remote, even from afar — Whether it’s a week of sunshine abroad or a few days with family — we allow flexible work from outside your usual location.
• Team Connection: Team spirit — whether in the office or at home, we use cool tools and a virtual office to keep the team tightly connected.
• Equipment: Modern IT equipment — We provide the tools and devices you need to be productive.
• Vacation: 27 vacation days per year — For your rest and to recharge. Plus special arrangements if you’re a parent, so you can better balance family and relaxation.
• Team Events: Team events at our locations — Whether after work in Cologne, Berlin, or London: we regularly bring teams together to connect and grow stronger.
• Offsites: Offsites with the whole team — Four days out of the daily grind with the entire team: trips, brainstorming, onsite collaboration, and real team spirit.

Application Process

• Fast, easy & transparent application process.
• All we need is your current CV. You can easily submit further information about yourself in our short application form. Lisa will then get in touch with you!