Product Design Manager
Product Design Manager
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Job Description
As a Product Design Manager at EcoVadis youll play a key role in shaping meaningful user experiences by collaborating closely with product engineering and development teams. Youll help drive a seamless product development process that emphasises design excellence cross-team alignment and scalable solutions. In this role youll champion high-quality consistent design outcomes while mentoring your team and advancing the design practice within EcoVadis.
Design Leadership
- Lead and mentor a team of product designers providing guidance support and feedback to elevate the quality of design across products
- Champion a user-centered design approach ensuring the team creates intuitive accessible and impactful user experiences
- Establish and maintain a high design standard through critique sessions design reviews and clear feedback loops
Strategic Influence
- Collaborate with product engineering marketing and senior stakeholders to align design vision with business goals
- Contribute to product strategy by identifying user needs opportunities and innovative design solutions
- Drive design thinking and research practices throughout the product lifecycle
Team Management & Development
- Hire onboard and develop a high-performing diverse design team
- Set individual goals conduct performance reviews and facilitate career growth through coaching and mentorship Foster a collaborative inclusive and design team culture
Process Optimisation
- Define and evolve design processes and workfl ows that support scalability and effi ciency without sacrificing quality
- Implement systems for consistent design quality such as guidelines and shared resources
- Encourage experimentation while ensuring designs are delivered on time and aligned with product timelines
Cross-functional Collaboration
- Act as a key liaison between design product engineering and other departments to ensure cohesive product experiences
- Translate complex problems into elegant design solutions supported by data and user insights
- Advocate for design as a strategic business function within the organisation
Thought Leadership
Stay up to date with industry trends emerging tools and UX best practices Represent the design function in leadership forums contributing to broader company vision and culture
Qualifications :
Design Expertise
- 5-8 years of professional experience in product design UX/UI or interaction design with a strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design work
- Strong foundation in UX principles visual design information architecture and interaction design
- Comfortable working through ambiguity taking ownership of identifying problems and creating solutions
- Have a validate first and perfect later mentality committed to continuous development and learning
User Research & Data
- Proficient in conducting and applying insights from user research and usability testing
- Experience using research tools like Maze Lookback UserTesting Optimal Workshop or in-house testing methods
- Comfortable working with product metrics and behavioral analytics to inform design decisions
Collaboration & Communication
- Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional partners in product management engineering and data
- Excellent written verbal and visual communication skills - able to articulate design rationale clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- Comfortable facilitating workshops design sprints and stakeholder presentations
Strategic Thinking
- Ability to think at a systems level and connect the dots across user journeys business goals and technical constraints
- Experience working in agile or lean environments contributing to product strategy and roadmap discussions
- Track record of identifying design opportunities that enhance the product and create business value
Leadership & Influence
- Proven ability to mentor designers give and receive feedback and help foster a collaborative team environment
- Comfortable working through ambiguity taking ownership of identifying problems and creating solutions; Demonstrated ownership of complex projects and ability to drive them to completion with minimal oversight Advocacy for inclusive accessible and ethical design practices
Additional Information :
Location: Warsaw - Hybrid (4 days a month)
Start date: ASAP
Contract of Employment
Everyone at EcoVadis contributes to a culture of trust respect and empowerment. Our growing team in Poland is full of talented professionals from various sectors who all share a desire to make an impact. We offer competitive salaries and support personal growth from day one with extensive onboarding mentoring and a brand new e-learning platform bursting with courses and modules so you can learn new skills and fine-tune old ones.
Benefits:
- Support with all the necessary office and IT equipment
- Flexible working hours
- Wellness allowance for mental and physical wellbeing
- Access to professional mental health support
- Referral bonus policy
- Learning and development
- Sustainability events and community involvement
- Peer recognition program
- Employee-led resource groups
- Optional (fully covered or co-financed) health care and life insurance
- Multisport card
- Multikafeteria
- Lunch card
- Hybrid work organization
- Remote work from abroad policy
- Internet and Electricity bill allowance
- Additional day for community service when volunteering
Please share with us your English CV and we can guarantee a response to every application. A new job with purpose awaits you!
Dont fit all the criteria but still think youd be a good candidate Please apply anyway to give our hiring team the opportunity to assess your skills and to learn more about what you could bring to EcoVadis. Were interested in hiring capable people regardless of professional and educational background.
Can the hiring process be adjusted to suit my needs Yes. We want everyone going through the hiring process with EcoVadis to feel confident that you are able to demonstrate your full potential. We welcome applications from disabled people people with long-term health conditions and neurodiverse candidates. If you need any adjustments please let the hiring team know.Our teams strength comes from everyones uniqueness and is founded upon mutual respect. EcoVadis commits to equity inclusion and reducing bias in our hiring processes. EcoVadis does not accept any form of discrimination based on color national or ethnic origin ancestry citizenship religion beliefs age sex gender identity sexual orientation neurodiversity disability parental status or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique. In your application we encourage you to remove personal information such as: photographs marital status number of children religion gender residential postal code university graduation date past medical or parental leave(s) taken nationality (instead please state if you are legally eligible to work in the job region/country) university name (instead please state any degrees obtained and the study major).
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
