Hello ✨

We're Happy Scribe, a 100% bootstrapped and profitable startup, based in Barcelona.

We are on a mission to break language barriers globally and bring audiovisual content to all.

We are building the #1 Audiovisual Platform by combining state-of-the-art AI with trusted language experts to produce high-quality transcriptions, subtitles, and closed captions at speed.

We're 40 people at the moment, and we're building the team thoughtfully and with a lot of care. How would you like to join us on this journey?

About the role… 

At Happy Scribe, we’re expanding our design team with our third-ever designer. As the third designer, you’ll play a crucial role in shaping the future of our product by collaborating closely with product managers, engineers, and other teams. You'll focus on defining user experiences across the core functionality of our product while bringing a research-driven approach to uncover user needs and ensure our designs are intuitive, impactful, and grounded in real-world insights. You’ll also contribute to evolving and refining our design language as we continue to grow.

If you’re a designer looking to step up your level of impact in a product-driven environment, this role offers the perfect platform to influence the evolution of our product alongside a team that deeply values research, design, and the user experience.

What you will do… 

• Contribute to defining the future of language intelligence, shaping an existing market and delivering intuitive, impactful solutions that resonate with millions of users.

• Build a deep understanding of our customers by conducting user research, synthesizing data from multiple sources, and experimenting to uncover awareness gaps, pain points, and unmet needs.

• Work fully autonomously from discovery to delivery, owning the entire design process: plan and execute research initiatives, prototype, test, and deliver user-centered experiences that delight and empower users.

• Drive UX improvements and optimizations by combining design expertise, data insights, and user feedback to refine Happy Scribe’s acquisition, activation, engagement, and monetization strategies.

• Advocate for a research-first mindset, championing the importance of user insights and ensuring research informs design decisions across teams.

• Create a compelling design vision for new features and products, fostering team alignment and delivering meaningful, high-impact user experiences grounded in research and testing.

What you will bring…

• 4+ years experience as a product designer, with a focus on delivering exceptional user-centered designs informed by research.

• Strong research skills: you know how to conduct user interviews, run usability tests, and analyze qualitative and quantitative data to inform design decisions.

• A ship-to-learn mentality, embracing iteration and continuous improvement based on research findings and real-world usage.

• A clear design methodology: you know where you're going and have actionable plans (A, B, and C) to achieve your goals while staying focused on user needs.

• Strong communication skills to advocate for research and design insights, influence roadmaps, and align stakeholders around a shared vision for the user experience.

• A passion for understanding customer problems: you actively seek insights from support tickets, sales calls, and direct research initiatives to ensure your designs address real user needs.

• A strong entrepreneurial mindset: you thrive in scrappy, fast-paced environments and aren’t afraid to share early iterations to gather user and team feedback.

• Proven experience in leading complex UX and research-driven projects that had a big impact on the product, such as redesigning an onboarding flow, launching a new feature, or introducing improvements based on research findings.

Bonus points if…

• You’ve been one of the first designers on a product team, helping establish foundational UX and research practices and contributing to a strong design culture.

🕊️ Happy Scribe is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all people and all walks of life.

We believe a diverse team will be key to our success and we strongly encourage applications from under-represented groups in tech and marginalised groups in general: women, people of colour, LGBTQIA+, parents, career changers, refugees, people with disabilities… we want to hear from you!

Company Culture

✨ Have an impact on millions of people — Change how users and language professionals make transcriptions, translations and subtitles.

👫 Work with a small team of bright people — When we talk with most people, they have a hard time understanding how we got so far with so few people. Looking at this, we're close in ARR to a typical Series B company, but our ARR per employee is 10x the industry average.

🤝 A company culture built on trust, autonomy, and independence

🛫 Infinite runway, no investment pressure. We are 100% bootstrapped and profitable. Every penny spent comes from happy customers who are paying for a product they value. Many tech companies are laying off staff because they grew too fast and need funding to survive. We prioritised profitability and sustainable growth, and are not impacted by funding shortage.

🍽️ In-Person culture — We believe nothing beats the magic of great people working together in person, in and outside of working hours. We work together, and spend time together: expect laughter-filled conversations over shared meals. The rule of thumb is 80/20 (80% in the office and 20% where you want); you have flexibility to work from abroad or at home when needed.

✊ We make it work — Have kids? Live far away? Do you have a non-normative life setup? The thing we care the most about is the team. Once we know we want to work with you, we make it work and we can flex the 80/20 rule.

⏱️Flexible working hours — Work on the schedule that makes you the most happy and productive. Here's more info.

🏰 Beautiful office in Gràcia — One of the best areas in Barcelona. Our offices are much more than just a place to work. We like to see them alive 24/7, filled with friends and creative activities. Want to organise a community event, a breakfast with other designers, developers, etc.? The place is yours. Take a sneak peek here.

✈️ Team Retreats — So far we've been to Paris, Mallorca, the Pyrenees, Aran Islands, Dublin, and Sweden, where we had a small island to ourselves!

🌏 International, English-only speaking environment — We're building an international team and want to create an inclusive environment where anyone can join any conversation at any time, even if it’s just kitchen talk. That's why you'll find Italian, French or Catalan people talking in English to each other.

What we offer…

💰 Competitive salary — our salaries are in the top percentiles of the Barcelona startup scene.

📈 Equity — By joining the company when the team is so small, you’re helping us set the foundations of our future success. We're asking you to come on an adventure, so if we find a treasure, we want you to get a piece.

🌏 €1,000 per year travel bonus — We live in a distributed world where most people have friends and family spread around the globe. We don’t want finances or distances to get in the way of spending time with the people you care about. This perk will help you stay closer to them.

🧠 Mental health support — We have partnered with Oliva to offer you the best mental health support, from day 1. You can access 1-1 online therapy as often as you need to and it’s 100% confidential.

🏖️ 30 days per year vacation time — To relax and recharge your batteries whenever you need to.

🚚 Visa sponsorship and Relocation help — We want to work with the best people, regardless of where they're from. We'll help with your relocation costs and getting set up in Barcelona and will sponsor your visa if needed.

💻 The hardware that you need to be most productive.

📚 1 book/mo + e-learning platforms, conferences or courses of your choice — We truly want you to learn.

🍏 Private Health Insurance - We have partnered withAlan to best take care of our team both in Barcelona and while they’re on the road, covering half of the full price of the medical coverage.

Interview Process

We see this as a two way process and value the time you invest in considering working with us. We are committed to replying to everyone who applies, giving feedback to everyone we interview, being respectful of your time and giving you all the information you need to be able to make a decision.

• Step 1 - Screening 20-minute video call with Andrew, our Head of Product to dive deeper into your skillset.

• Step 2 - Portfolio Review 40-minute video call with our Product Designer, Milan and our Product Manager, Ignasi.

• Step 3 - Whiteboarding Exercise with Andrew, Milan and Marc, our Co-Founder and CTO. You can use your favourite tool for this one.

• Step 4 - Values fit interview. 45 minutes with our CEO Andre and someone from the People team, to get to know you better as a person, understand your values, how you collaborate, think, make decisions, and what makes you tick.

• Step 5 - Meet the team. 90 minutes (split in smaller sessions in the same day). This is not really an interview, it’s an opportunity to meet some of the amazing people you’d be working with to help you know if you want to join our team.

Note - you might speak to different people than the ones noted here, but the steps remain the same. In some cases, we might ask for an additional conversation to go deeper into certain topics if we think it can add value.