Senior Software Designer Lisboa

Overview

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About Web Summit: we are a global tech conference company focused on meaningful connections and delivering excellent attendee experiences. This role will take primary ownership of the Web Summit website as a
- traffic conversion channel, translating marketing and advertising goals into
- led experiences, maintaining and evolving the web design system, and collaborating with growth, SEO, and performance teams to optimise acquisition and conversion. You will contribute to broader product initiatives across our attendee tools and platforms.

This Senior Software Designer role will report to the Product Design Lead and work closely with marketing, product, and engineering teams to deliver
-
- class digital experiences and push forward brand and product consistency across all digital touchpoints.

What You'll Achieve At Web Summit

• You’ll see your work on a global stage and make a mark in an international,
  - driven events company.
• You’ll be a key part of the product and marketing teams, responsible for defining website flows, strengthening our acquisition funnel, and driving brand awareness.
• You will own and improve the website’s conversion performance, responsiveness to campaigns, and scalability of web components for seasonal and growth activity.
• You will report directly to our Product Design Lead, collaborating closely to deliver
  -
  - class digital experiences. Together you’ll refine design systems, run experiments, and push forward both brand and product consistency across all digital touchpoints.

Who You Are

• An experienced product/digital/marketing designer with a track record of turning customer and stakeholder needs into appealing, highly usable interfaces and flows.
• Fluent in marketing and advertising principles, comfortable translating campaign objectives, SEO strategy, and paid media goals into measurable design solutions.
• Collaborative, familiar with technical challenges, and confident working closely with engineering teams.
• Skilled at creating clear design deliverables—wireframes, prototypes, flows—and presenting them effectively to stakeholders.
• Iterative and
  - driven, improving designs through feedback, analytics, and business needs.
• Passionate about design, always striving for quality beyond MVPs while maintaining consistency and brand integrity.
• Adaptable and comfortable working under pressure.

Skills And Abilities We're Looking For

• 5+ years of product/digital/marketing design experience with a strong portfolio of responsive websites and digital products.
• Proven experience owning and maintaining
  - traffic marketing or
  - commerce websites.
• High proficiency in Figma (design systems, libraries, components, handover).
• Experience with Framer, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, or 3D tools is a plus.
• Fluency in marketing and advertising, with experience in growth, SEO, and performance marketing.
• Comfortable with HTML, CSS, Java
  Script, and React, collaborating effectively with engineers.
• Experience working in
  - functional teams. A/B testing and optimisation experience is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with CMS platforms.

Benefits And Perks

• Hybrid-working model open to all employees.
• Fully subsidised healthcare, dental, employee assistance programme (EAP) and more.
• Pension contribution up to 6% (Irish based only).
• A dedicated
  - house L&D department, with access to workshops, online learning and resources to help you excel in your career development.
• Company laptop, generous annual leave and flexible working arrangements.
• Our Tramway Team drives community and
  - boosting events for employees to participate in.
• Annual company
  - togethers, charity days, and monthly wellbeing talks.
• Wellness subsidy issued to all employees of €1000 per year.

At Web Summit, we embrace diversity and inclusion. We want talent from all walks of life to help us on our journey to digitise the conference sector. Hiring decisions are made purely on experience, skills and the needs of the business.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Events Services