UI/UX Designer for the next generation of analytical solutions

Do you want to create a first-class user experience of analytical solutions?

For more than 60 years, FOSS have created analytical solutions for food and feed producers around the world. As a UI/UX Designer You will play a pivotal role in the creation of the user experience of the next generation of FOSS instruments. You will take part in driving the consistency in the user experience across instruments anchored in the platform software.

Create the best user experience of FOSS analytical solutions

The UI/UX team is anchored in R&D Software platform, which is the foundation for all new instrument projects. The team is self-organizing and works on tasks for both the software platform and for specific instrument projects. The team is responsible for the development and maintenance of our common FOSS design system, and the definition of best practices, with respect to user interaction and the good user experience.

All functionality that goes across multiple solutions is developed in the platform software. An example of a platform feature could be a user management system. As a UI/UX designer you will work together with the platform Product Owner, to make sure that all the requirements are clear, and you will drive the design and verification with our internal “customers” (the projects). When the design is ready for implementation, you will take part in handing over the design to the software development team.

Other feature requests may be specific to an instrument project. This could be a start-up or maintenance guide. In this case, you will work closely with the instrument team and SW Product Owner, to nail the required workflow with the best user experience. This could involve user interviews, “quick and dirty” user tests with internal experts, or participation in field tests at our customers. You will create the designs/prototypes before the field test, but you could also join as a facilitator, if you find this part interesting.

The platform is the heart of the analytical solution software

Our team is a diverse and multicultural team of 15 people comprising software developers, test automation, product owner, UI/UX Designers, UX specialists, and student helpers. We believe that working close together as one team fosters great designs with fewer iterations.
Our working culture is based on trust and teamwork. We often have common workshops to discuss specific functionality and designs or the way we work, and every week the whole team is having rotating 1:1 inspirational talks to learn from each other. These sessions are really valued in the team.

Do you have what it takes?

  • M.Sc. level in Digital design, Design and Innovation or equivalent
  • 1-3 years of experience with UI/UX design
  • Proficiency in design and prototyping tools, preferably Figma and Adobe Illustrator
  • Excellent visual communication and design skills
  • Mastering the UX toolbox; user journey mapping, sitemaps, workflows, ect.
  • Professional fluency in written and spoken English

To succeed in the role, you need to be a great collaborator with a curious and creative mindset. You are a do’er that makes things happen and love to see great designs come alive from initial sketches to running software on the instruments.

It is a great benefit if you are a tech enthusiast that loves to collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams, as our instrument projects involves specialists within hardware, measurement chain, data scientist, to name a few, and the user-experience will be a result of the teams’ work.

Your daily work will be in FOSS Innovation Center in Hilleroed, but you should expect 5-10 travelling days per year.

We offer

A demanding job, in an international and innovative company, that is small enough for you to get high influence in the job, and big enough for complex development and career development. We have a flat and informal company culture and an open-minded and collegial spirit. The size of our company allows for independent, dynamic and fast decisions, and you will have the opportunity for constant learning through new projects, technologies and market opportunities. We strive to use the latest technology with updated tools etc.

FOSS has a solid record of continued business growth and a strong business strategy for an exciting future journey.

Interested?

Send your application by using the link below. We conduct interviews on an ongoing basis. Therefore, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. For further information, please contact People Manager Marie Lundberg (MAWL@foss.dk).

FOSS is committed to maintaining an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. You can help us sustain an unbiased recruitment process by not including photo or age in your application.

How to apply

Our goal is to make the recruitment process as professional and positive as possible. The recruitment process starts when you’ve submitted your application online. Vacant positions at FOSS do not always have an application deadline, so please apply today rather than tomorrow. The reason for this is that we want to ensure a fast and efficient process, which means that we review applications on an ongoing basis. Candidates who are invited for interviews will receive an invitation per email.

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Sustainability is an integral part of our business

At FOSS, we have a taken a holistic approach to Sustainability. It’s not only about conducting our business in a responsible and ethical manner. It’s also about developing solutions that make a difference in the world. We help our customers tackle difficult global challenges such as efficiency in food production, consistency in quality and food safety.

We are operating in a world with significant population growth, scarce resources, food safety scandals and growing concerns about the climate. As the leading business-to-business provider of dedicated analytical technology, we play a key role in this environment.

For example, our technology is increasingly important in expanding food supply by making rational use of increasingly limited resources, while ensuring the best quality food reaches the consumer. To address this challenge there is a need for the development of solutions that analyze and make data manageable and actionable throughout the production process. Information management of analytics will be the future of the food and feed industry, enabling producers to increase yields by being more efficient. Intelligent and automated processes that run on data will define our customers’ future production - and much of the 10% of our turnover we annually invest in research and development will be dedicated to this area.

Working at FOSS

We work on a global scale to develop the people working at FOSS. We strive to enhance job satisfaction and motivation by constantly improving the competencies of our managers as well as following up on employee satisfaction.

We know our employees are our strongest asset.

Therefore, we emphasise, invest in and appraise our employees’ knowledge, skills and attitudes, and take pride in creating an environment with trust, confidence and development. We also believe that clearly defined objectives enable people to achieve their performance potential and that the support from the immediate superior is essential. Most important of all; trained, well-motivated and competent employees are a perquisite for success in the future. We manage by values, but also clear objectives, and follow up through regular meetings between the employee and the manager. In these meetings, there is also room to discuss career aspirations and other development opportunities including internal career moves.

You will have the opportunity for internal career development.

As a company, we are small enough for you to get high influence in the job, but we are also big enough for complex development and global careers. If you want to move in a new direction and continue to develop along with your professional capable colleagues, we offer the opportunity for internal career moves inside FOSS. As we are a knowledge-heavy company, this is a win-win scenario for both FOSS and our employees.

Work with creative and professionally strong colleagues.

Teamwork is essential to FOSS. By developing solutions in cross-functional teams, we integrate knowledge, experience and competences from many perspectives to achieve great results. We communicate in a straight-forward manner and solve challenges together. In FOSS, we truly value that you voice your opinion, take responsibility and ownership. Our company size in turn allows for independent, dynamic and fast decisions.

If you join FOSS, we promise you that you will enter an environment with new learnings through projects, new technologies and market opportunities. We love to be entrepreneurial and open-minded to new ideas, and if you get a good idea – you can bring it forward.

Join a company with a clear business idea and purpose, but also strong values.

In a global world with a growing population, there is an ever-increasing demand for safer food, production that is more efficient and less food waste. Globally, we need to produce as much food the next 40 years as the last 8,000 years to meet the needs of a growing population and declining natural resources. A huge challenge, which requires that we become better at utilizing the resources available.

The business vision of FOSS to contribute to a more sustainable use of increasingly valuable agricultural resources, and to the nutrition and health of the people of the world. We provide the industry’s best analytics, which add value to our customers by improving quality and optimising food and agricultural production.

Join FOSS, and you will be part of this mission, more relevant today than ever. 

Meet our employees

Meet Jan – manager of Concept Development in Research & Development

Jan’s daily work as a manager in Concept Development consists of generating new ideas in collaboration with his team and deciding which ideas should be developed. The daily challenge of finding the right solutions to address the needs of our customers is solved by a diverse and competent group of specialists working together.



Meet Mariana – Chemometrician in Research & Development

Mariana is a Spanish Chemometrician specialised in NIR. Coming from a research background her move to FOSS was motivated by a desire to work with real products and real customers. AT FOSS she is involved in the innovation of new products, developing calibrations for the EyeFoss image analysis grain analyser.

About FOSS

FOSS creates end-to-end solutions that secure and improve food quality. From raw material to finished product. Our analysis instruments refine measurements into information management that enables businesses to run intelligent data-driven productions with less waste and bigger yields. Controlling cost and quality across all sectors and value chains, we help food and agricultural producers limit the number of human errors, scale their business faster and reduce manual labour as well as labour costs. We call it analytics beyond measure.

Over the last 60 years, we have made it our business to define the standard of analytical solutions for the food and agricultural industry. We pioneered advanced analysis for the challenging production environments in the 1960’s, and we were the first to integrate chemical composition analysis in process lines. Now our resolve and ambition have also made us the international benchmark in the field of chemometrics and real time analytics.

FOSS is a 100% family-owned company and the leading supplier of innovative analytical solutions; 98 percent of FOSS’ business is generated outside Denmark. FOSS has more than 100 patents and more than 20 world-first product introductions. FOSS employs more than 1700 dedicated people worldwide and has manufacturing, research and development facilities in Denmark and China. Solutions are sold and supported through FOSS sales and service companies in 28 countries and by more than 75 distributors. Many employees have a top-level scientific or technical background, including more than 130 Master of Science and more than 20 PhDs in areas such as photonics, chemometrics, physical chemistry, analytical chemistry, fermentation and bio-engineering, astrophysics, optical communication, physics, quality, nanotechnology, food science and adaptive radiotherapy. We also employ many factory-trained and certified support engineers stationed close to our customers.

FOSS

Foss Allé 1

DK-3400 Hilleroed

Denmark

Phone: +45 70 10 33 70

E-mail: info@foss.dk