Lead Product Designer – German-speaking

This is a unique opportunity for a senior product designer who wants to combine hands-on product design with leadership. Youll take ownership of product design branding and the evolution of the design function helping define how thousands of businesses experience the productfrom their first interaction with the brand to their daily use of the platform.

As a Senior Individual Contributor with leadership ambitions youll remain deeply involved in design while helping build and shape the Design Team.

Working closely with Product Engineering Engineering and the founders youll influence product strategy customer experience and brand development in a fast-moving environment with short decision-making cycles.

Youll have the opportunity to:

• Spend approximately half of your time on hands-on product design customer research and brand development.
• Own the user experience across three core product areas in close collaboration with Product Engineering.
• Shape and evolve the companys brand together with the Staff Designer.
• Lead and develop the Design Team across Product Design Branding and Web Experience.
• Regularly speak with customers to understand their workflows and translate insights into product decisions.
• Establish design systems interaction patterns and quality standards across product web and brand.
• Collaborate directly with Engineering and the founders in a highly iterative environment with rapid product releases.
• Help define the long-term design vision as the company continues to scale internationally.

Qualifications :

Were looking for someone who:

• Has extensive experience designing digital products ideally within B2B SaaS environments.
• Combines strong product intuition with analytics and customer insights to make design decisions based on evidence rather than assumptions.
• Has significant experience conducting customer interviews and translating research into product improvements.
• Has experience building and scaling design systems across multiple products or product areas.
• Enjoys simplifying complexity through thoughtful intuitive design.
• Is a senior individual contributor with leadership ambitions and is excited to help grow a design organization while remaining highly hands-on.
• Uses modern AI tools such as Cursor Claude v0 or similar to accelerate ideation prototyping and design workflows.
• Speaks native-level German and communicates confidently in English.

Additional Information :

What Our Client Offers

• Competitive annual compensation of plus equity.
• 100% remote work with the flexibility to work from the companys modern office in Vienna where lunch and dinner are provided.
• Full ownership of product design branding and the evolution of the Design Team.
• Immediate impact with every product decision reaching thousands of customers.
• A culture built around ownership deep work exceptionally fast execution and minimal meetings.
• A generous budget for equipment tooling and AI technologies.
• Direct collaboration with the founders and exceptionally short decision-making cycles.
• The opportunity to help shape one of Europes fastest-growing AI technology companies.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time