What will you do ❓
– You’ll be instrumentalinestablishing and maintaining design consistency within your specific domain. This entails actively contributing to the ongoing evolution of our design system, not just from a design perspective, but also by closely collaborating with the frontend team.
– You’ll also mentor designers within your field, sharing your deep know-how to ensure their work consistently meets these established standards, vision, and strategy.
Furthermore, you’ll collaborate closely with the Product head and PMs to shape and advance the design strategy and methodology within your designated gang. You’re responsible for setting up and continuously improving cross-functional collaboration among PMs, designers, and researchers, ensuring all designers and researchers feel fully integrated and contribute effectively within their product gangs
Responsibilities:
Strategic Design Leadership & Vision (30%):
Define and Drive Design Vision & Strategy: Define, communicate, and champion the long-term design vision and strategy for a dedicated product area/platform, ensuring alignment with overarching company goals and user needs.
Search for opportunities: Proactively identify strategic design & product opportunities and challenges, proposing innovative solutions that drive significant business impact and user value.
Advance Design Methodologies and Best Practices: You’ll continuously explore, introduce, and test new design methodologies, tools, and best practices, driving innovation and efficiency within the design team and broader organization. Incorporate AI into daily designers‘ work.
Build the relationship with the Product department and the whole organization: Contribute significantly to the product roadmap definition by representing the design perspective and advocating for user-centered solutions at a strategic level. Advocate empowered teams and work on the best relationship between Design, Research & Product.
Design Execution & Innovation (50%):
Lead Complex Design Initiatives: Lead end-to-end design for highly complex, ambiguous, or critical product initiatives, often involving multiple product teams or external integrations.
Own Design Quality & Execution: Act as the ultimate owner of design quality and coherence for assigned projects, ensuring perfect design execution and adherence to design system standards. Translate complex user needs and business requirements into intuitive, elegant, and effective design solutions.
Cooperate with mates & all stakeholders: Work closely with the Head of Product and Product Managers to integrate design strategy seamlessly into product roadmaps and overall business objectives. This includes influencing key decisions and effectively communicating design rationale to a wide range of stakeholders.
Mentorship & Design Community Building (20%):
Ensure Design Consistency and Quality: Oversee and actively maintain the highest standards of design quality and consistency across your domain. This includes championing and contributing to the design system, ensuring a cohesive user experience across all touchpoints, and ensuring that all designers in your field are doing consistent & quality design.
Mentor and Develop Design Talent: As the expert, you’ll actively mentor, coach, and guide other designers within your field. You’ll share your extensive knowledge, provide constructive feedback, and help them elevate their skills to meet the established design standards, vision, and strategy.
Cross-Functional Influence & Collaboration: Serve as a trusted advisor and design expert to executive leadership, product management, engineering, and other cross-functional partners. Proactively identify and resolve organizational blockers or systemic issues that hinder design effectiveness or product delivery.
Facilitate Design & Product Decisions on the company level: Facilitate complex decision-making processes, building consensus and aligning diverse stakeholders on design direction and priorities.
Be visible outside the company: Represent the design organization externally (e.g., at industry conferences, in publications) to enhance the company’s reputation.
We are looking for someone who 🔦
Have a deep understanding of users. Not only their behavior, but also their motivations and needs. You interact with them continuously;
Can balance user needs with business goals, always thinking in terms of the whole product;
Bring a product mindset. You see design as a way to drive impact and outcomes, not just to make things look good;
Validate ideas quickly and pragmatically, knowing that real confidence comes from testing, not from long debates;
Don’t fall in love with the first solution, you iterate and search for better ones;
Are eager to keep learning, exploring new approaches, and growing your craft;
What you can look forward to with us 👀
Gain experience with Continuous Product Discovery—a process many companies dream of but few successfully implement;
Work closely with experienced designers and product development enthusiasts who will support you throughout the discovery process;
Contribute to product development in 9 countries with 20 million unique visitors as part of our international One Platform;
Have the space to realize your ideas and innovations;
Meet your future boss and team during the selection process;
Choose a laptop that suits your preferences, whether you prefer Mac or Windows;
Cafeteria, additional holidays, mental health support and many other benefits (click for more details);
Working in a hybrid model;
On the informal culture and mindset of all of us;
Receive a wide range of benefits, including Cafeteria, 25 days of vacation, top-notch equipment, contributions for English lessons or therapy, and more! Participate in various work-related and social events;
Great office in the center of Prague;
Full-time and long-term job with an employee contract;
We’d love to have you join us as soon as possible!
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How to apply:
If you are interested, please send us your CV in English, we will contact you as soon as possible.
