Head of Product Design
Description
Key Responsabilities ✨
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People Leadership: Proactively develop strategies to accelerate team growth and independently manage your team’s performance. Foster an environment of open feedback and run an effective meeting cadence.
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Experience Strategy & Roadmap: Define the overarching experience strategy and directly influence multi-team roadmaps, connecting the user experience to commercial growth.
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Craft Direction & Vision: Set the aesthetic vision and interaction bar for your product area, translating brand strategy into specific design principles and facilitating high-standard critiques.
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User Discovery & Research: Instill consistent, data-informed discovery habits across your teams. Initiate and drive strategic initiatives for the systematic collection of quantitative and qualitative user data.
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Velocity & Execution: Optimize our design-to-delivery lifecycle. Help teams navigate the balance between shipping fast MVPs and investing time into polished, highly refined user flows.
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Cross-Functional Alignment: Maintain a close partnership with product and tech leadership peers to influence product strategy and secure tech investment for a best-in-class user experience that unlocks commercial growth.
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System-level Thinking: Partner with the Experience Systems & AI team to drive AI workflow automation and directly contribute to the core principles and architectural requirements informing the design system strategy.
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AI Workflow Transformation: Evaluate, pilot, and establish operational standards and tooling for AI-assisted design across multiple teams to accelerate discovery, generation, and delivery cycles.
About you 🧑🚀
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Management Track Record: You have a proven history of directly managing and developing design talent within fast-paced product organizations.
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Strategic Alignment: You treat design as a core business lever. You understand product metrics, conversion funnels, and marketplace dynamics.
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AI User Experience: Hands-on experience tackling unique UX patterns for generative AI, such as designing for non-deterministic model outputs, prompt-guiding interfaces, or trust and transparency in AI-driven automation.
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Interaction & UX Foundations: You excel at handling platform complexity across multiple domains. You know how to translate dense data states, complex workflows, and multi-sided user funnels into simple, predictable interfaces.
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Data & Insights Driven: You value evidence over bias, routinely leveraging user research and product analytics to validate your team’s design choices.
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B2B / Marketplace Experience: A solid background or preferred experience in B2B platforms or multi-sided digital marketplaces.
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Language: Fluency in English is required.
How to join the mission? 🚀
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First Call with Olivier, our Talent Acquisition Manager, to better understand your background, aspirations and answer any questions you may have. (45 minutes)
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Manager Interview with your future manager Stefanie Fleisch (VP of Design) to delve into your experience and the specifics of the role. (60 minutes)
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Case Study preparation and presentation with your future manager and members of the Design and Tech Team (60 minutes)
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Final Interview with the CPO, Sebastien Bardin, to discuss Malt’s long-term vision in terms of AI experience workflows at Malt (30 min) + Coffee with the team (30 min)
Skills
As published by lever · 5 questions
Basics
Resume/CV, Full name, Pronouns, Email, Phone, Current location, Current company, LinkedIn URL, Other website
Short answers (1)
- When are you available to start ?
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- How would you describe your current integration of Generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, GitHub Copilot, etc.) into your professional workflow?
- What is your level in English?
- Are you available to work at least 3 days per week in our Paris office?
- How many years of experience do you have in directly managing 2 or more Product Designers ?