Lead Product Designer (m/f/d)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Munich

Job description

At Personio we are on the amazing journey of becoming the leading HR Platform in Europe! Join our international agile Product & Engineering team and take an active role in shaping our culture and the future of thousands of HR teams and organizations across Europe. At Personio you will have a direct impact on our product, our users, our organization, and our engineering practices. 

Your tasks and responsibilities will include:

  • Managing a group of 2-4 designers around a product vertical, helping them with their current challenges, and coaching them continuously around personal development and design execution

  • Leading strategic design initiatives, helping us find consistent solutions to intricate problems

  • Collaborating with Product Management and Engineering to make sure we have an in-depth level of collaboration and alignment across disciplines

  • Driving discovery efforts around complex topics, helping us to break down larger problems into more manageable ones

  • Helping us extend our Design System and raise the quality bar of our interfaces across the entire product

Your profile
  • You hold a degree in a Design field or can show equivalent work experience 

  • You have previous experience leading design teams through complex projects

  • You have a portfolio that demonstrates your experience designing web-based applications, ideally in a SaaS environment 

  • You have an advanced understanding of information architecture

  • You care about the details as much as about the big picture and knows how to build workflows that foster a high level of quality and refinement on design outcomes

  • You have previous experience working with a diverse range of UX design methodologies and know what works in the real world

  • You hare business-fluent in written and spoken English

Why us
  • Your chance to play a decisive role in shaping a company in its rapid growth and to grow and learn from your tasks.
  • A creative working environment and short decision-making paths
  • Full responsibility for your area
  • 1,500 Euro development budget, which you can use as you wish
  • Regular team events, e.g. raft trips on the Isar, ski trips, visits to the Oktoberfest and much more.
  • Stylish and open office in the heart of Munich 
  • Flexible home office regulation
  • Lightning-fast electric scooter of your choice as a "company car" (www.unumotors.com) or additional payment for MVV ticket
  • Delicious Fairtrade coffee, various cold drinks, fruit and muesli for free
  • Subsidized Qualitrain membership: For 25 euros a month you can train in 90 fitness and yoga studios, swimming pools and many other sports facilities in Munich.
  • Relocation support and 28 paid vacation days
About us
Being a Personio means being part of something big. It means shaping the future of HR, the future of our company and at the very same time: your own. As one of the fastest-growing B2B SaaS companies in Europe, we have a great product, an amazing team with more than 300 employees and a market that is only waiting to be developed. By now we already have more than 2000 customers, but we aim high: Our goal is to build the leading HR platform in Europe. At Personio, we believe in hiring people like you - ambitious, forward-thinkers who want to be more than just another employee. Will you be one of them?

Your application
Thank you for considering a career at Personio. Please fill out the following form. In case you are experiencing problems with the document upload, mail your documents to joinus@personio.de.

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