This week, Mireille, our new Online Product Designer, tells us about her first few weeks at XING.

Mireille (Product & Engineering): I just received an email from a friend of mine saying, “You’re working at XING now? It never occured to me that a team of real people actually work there.” To be honest, it came as a surprise to me as well just how many people work here, and I only had a very rough idea of what over 100 employees did exactly. Of course, after four weeks in the job I have a slightly better idea, but am still learning so much on a daily basis. I work as an Online Product Designer and form the interface between Design, Usability and Product Management. It is particularly exciting in this interdisciplinary function to reconcile the broad range of our professional target group’s groups with our international focus. Cultural differences play an important role here. For the last 8 years I’ve worked on a freelance basis for various different agencies and clients. Not a day goes by when I don’t think how right it was to switch over to the company side – and end up working for such a great company. It is brilliant to see everyone working together in unison for the same goals.
Funnily enough, I found my new job through XING Marketplace. I studied Fashion Design – unbelievable to think that there wasn’ta computer in sight in many industries back then. I’m glad I chose to specialise in Multimedia early on, otherwise I probably wouldn’t be at XING now :).

Interested in working at XING? Have a look at our job site – there are currently 36 job openings.