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Product Design Lead at WeTransfer

Amsterdam, NL

What you’ll be doing

The best way to learn is by doing and we believe in enabling people to try, fail, learn, and try again. This is something we expect the Lead to be great at — empowering and enabling others to take on new responsibilities and challenges, rather than picking up tasks to solve everybody’s problems.

The foundation of your role will be that of a seasoned designer on one of our product teams. Here you will lead by example and inspire others to step up their game, effectively raising the bar for product design at WeTransfer.

From a high-level perspective you will help shape our design vision, and work with product managers and designers to solve the right problems the right way at the right time to be effective as a design team.

You will leverage your prior experience with agile product development to improve our workflow, the collaboration with other disciplines, and our team’s dynamics — allowing the design team to perform well and execute on its vision.

You will guide product designers in their professional growth as a mentor, and use their personal qualities, interests, experience, and the company’s business needs to create personal development plans.

You are naturally committed to create and maintain a safe and inspiring environment where informed creativity thrives. When we’re looking to add new people to the team you’ll coordinate the recruiting process in collaboration with our People Ops Manager.

The Lead role forms a connective tissue between the VP Product Design, the design team, and Leads in related disciplines. Together, our objective is to successfully deliver a coherent, easy-to-use, and delightful set of products that create real value for our users and the business.

What we’ll be looking for

Experience in product teams at similar companies – scale-up companies using agile methodologies in cross-functional teams.

A portfolio that speaks volumes about your talent, skill, and experience. You’re a well-rounded designer and a master in your craft – experienced with IA, UX, research, visual design, and prototyping.

A knack for developing talent: having a solid sense of people’s intrinsic drive, skills, and potential to mentor designers in their craft & career, and to recruit new talent.

A natural driving force in team ops, e.g. evolving team rituals, critiques, the design system.

Effective communication. Whether its staying and keeping people in the loop, explaining an approach, giving and receiving feedback, or advocating for design within the company – being a great communicator is a critical skill in our highly-collaborative environment. A full professional proficiency in the English language is required.

Balanced decision making: devolving decisions to empower the team as much as possible, and being a confident decider when appropriate.

Opinionated and constructive about our design direction: playing a central role in translating high-level visions and goals to UI.

WeTransfer is part of the creative community and so are you — broadly interested in tech, culture, and the arts.

You love to learn, unlearn, and relearn. In this rapidly changing world, it’s imperative to keep evolving.

Diversity. Our products are used by all kinds of amazing people, from all over the world. We actively look to have the wonderful diversity of all the people that use our products reflected in our teams.

This role is based in our Amsterdam office. You should either live within a commutable distance, or willing and able to relocate (we’ll help you make the move, some conditions apply for visa applications).

Get in touch with us if you’re committed to raise the bar in the creation of meaningful products, used by millions of people every day. 🚀

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