Designer (Freelancer / Part-time)

Challenges and Areas of Work

Thousands of people love the design of Capacities. But we’re just getting started. If you want to help us bring the product experience of Capacities to the next level, we’d love to talk to you.

Your main task will be to take the design of Capacities to the next level: systematizing the UI, improving the design language, and making everything cleaner, simpler, and more consistent. You’ll be part of a small and fast-moving team.

We’re looking for someone who can independently work on projects. Ideally, we are looking for coding skills as well, so you can implement the design yourself. But this is not a must.

The position is fully remote part-time or as a freelancer. The role would be project-based with the goal to systematize and level up the design of Capacities and build guidelines and components that the dev team can use going forward.

If you’re interested, send us an email to team@capacities.io with some of your work.

About Capacities

We spend a lot of time online, consume vast amounts of information, and at the same time, try to do creative and productive work. Still, we lack a calm place to think and create, a place where we get supported by all the information and data we already have and need to actually get stuff done and be creative.

With Capacities, we’re building a Studio for your Mind, a place to make sense of the world and create amazing things. Our mission is to enable people to work productively and live fulfilling lives. We will remove all the complexity of working with files, folders, and different programs – we are creating a simple interface for people to the digital world.

We’re currently a team of three, but planning to grow the team in 2024. We are:

• Michael (co-founder, frontend development and design) is a coffee drinker and enjoyer of architecture. He loves nerdy discussions, reading, and learning new languages.
• Steffen (co-founder, full-stack and backend development) loves early mornings and hard technical problems and has a passion for AI. If he’s not working, you will find him out in the mountains.
• Beth (content, community, marketing): If she’s not working on Capacities content, she’s taking notes in it about history, or she’s trying to bake the perfect chocolate chip cookie.
• Luca (full-stack developer) is a young, talented full-stack developer eager to literally learn anything. Laptop closed, he’s out for sports or music.
• Anna (content, marketing, part-time) is a writer and researcher. She’s obsessed with knowledge work but loves her garden just as much.

On top of that, we’re regularly working with creative and passionate freelancers and developers on a project basis.

Capacities is 100% bootstrapped and a sustainable business. Our goal is to build a small team of excellent people who want to work on a product that matters, and that has a positive impact on people’s lives. With this position, you have the chance to join us as one of the first team members.

We are a hybrid to remote company with our center in Freiburg, Germany. You’re mostly free to decide how, where and when you work. Nevertheless, we expect the willingness to participate in occasional deep work sessions in Freiburg or elsewhere in Europe. It would be great if your working time matches Europe Central Time +/- 3 hours.