Head of Product Design

🪐 Discover our galaxy   Join the Future of Work ! Malt is Europe's leading freelance marketplace, connecting over 1,000,000 talented freelancers with 100,000+ companies. Founded in 2013, we're transforming how work gets done through our tech-powered, human-centered platform. What makes us different:   - A diverse team of 600 Malters across 6 European countries - A culture that champions equality (50% of our Comex are women) and inclusive growth - Backed by top investors including ISAI, Serena Capital, Eurazeo Growth, Goldman Sachs, and BPI - A mission to give everyone the freedom to work differently   Ready to help shape the future of work? Your next chapter starts here! 🪐 Key Responsabilities ✨ • 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. • Experience Strategy & Roadmap: Define the overarching experience strategy and directly influence multi-team roadmaps, connecting the user experience to commercial growth. • 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. • 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. • 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. • 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. • 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. • 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 🧑‍🚀 • Management Track Record: You have a proven history of directly managing and developing design talent within fast-paced product organizations. • Strategic Alignment: You treat design as a core business lever. You understand product metrics, conversion funnels, and marketplace dynamics. • 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. • 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. • Data & Insights Driven: You value evidence over bias, routinely leveraging user research and product analytics to validate your team’s design choices. • B2B / Marketplace Experience: A solid background or preferred experience in B2B platforms or multi-sided digital marketplaces. • Language: Fluency in English is required. How to join the mission? 🚀 • First Call with Olivier, our Talent Acquisition Manager, to better understand your background, aspirations and answer any questions you may have. (45 minutes) • Manager Interview with your future manager Stefanie Fleisch (VP of Design) to delve into your experience and the specifics of the role. (60 minutes) • Case Study preparation and presentation with your future manager and members of the Design and Tech Team (60 minutes) • Final Interview with the CPO, Sebastien Bardin, to discuss Malt’s long-term vision in terms of