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Product Design Manager

Pennylane

Remote · France Contract Lead 4w ago

About the role

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Requirements

  • Fluency in French and proficiency in English is required.
  • You have a strong track record of leading product design teams, better if in B2B organisations.
  • You have an excellent eye for design and are capable to assist the team with ideas and creative inputs.
  • You excel at aligning team decisions with the overall vision, JTBD, and design guidelines.
  • You enjoy discovering and solving complex problems through data and insights.
  • You have experience fostering an inclusive, open, and engaged design team culture.
  • You are comfortable communicating future design directions with senior stakeholders, including founders and inspiring positive action within your team.
  • You have a a collaborative approach.
  • You have experience working closely with other Designers, Engineers and Product Managers.
  • You value feedback and brainstorming ideas.
  • Significant experience collaborating with senior executives (C-level, Executive Committee, etc.)
  • Ability to simplify, synthesize, and translate complex issues for non-expert audiences
  • Comfortable presenting and defending your decisions to senior stakeholders
  • Skilled at finding the right balance in meetings—knowing when to lead, when to listen, and how to adapt your approach to the context
  • To speak English (level is assessed and appreciated according to the department you’re applying to)
  • To be energized by an ever-shifting work environment
  • To be highly collaborative (within your team or other stakeholders)
  • Sufficiently experienced to prioritize business-led actions on your day to day activity

Responsibilities

  • Scale and level-up your team of 5 product designers.
  • Identify strategic UX opportunities that will help our users become more productive and drive these forward with your product and engineering peers at track level.
  • Orchestrate user research with product leads and your team to understand the behaviour, needs and wants for our most important accounting partners and convert it into actionable insights.
  • Skilled at measuring the effect of design on business performance and overseeing critical strategic directions.
  • Continuously contribute expertise back to the business in the form of insights and best practices for our users.
  • Help your team balance speed, quality, and design consistency, always focusing on JBTD and business goals.
  • Shaping and establishing design processes.
  • Experienced in partnering with design ops teams

Benefits

25 vacations days paidcompetitive compensation packagecompany sharesbudget to turn your home into a more comfortable workspacemonthly allowance to work from a coworking spaceaccess to 8000 fitness spaces in Europeaccess to more than 300 activities related to wellnessaccess to Busuu to perfect your English or your Frenchlatest Apple equipment6 to 12 RTT5 weeks PTOslunch creditshealthcare cover

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