Head of Product Design

• Design Excellence & Craft: Drive the creation of exceptional and intuitive user experiences through effective UX and UI design. Oversee the entire design process from concept to delivery, ensuring high-quality and consistent design standards across our product. You will own PIXAR, our design system, to ensure product consistency, scalability for future initiatives, and responsiveness to user feedback and emerging design trends.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Lead, inspire, and mentor our team of product designers, fostering a collaborative and innovative working environment. Provide guidance on design methodologies and best practices, ensuring the team's continuous professional development and growth.
• Hands-on Design Contribution: While leading, you will maintain a hands-on approach, actively contributing to key design challenges and setting a high bar for craft within the team.
• Strategic Design Leadership: Define and articulate a compelling design vision aligned with BlaBlaCar's overall product and business strategy.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Product Management, Product Marketing, Engineering, and Growth to support the overall strategy through impactful design solutions. Foster a culture of open communication and collaboration between design and other departments.
• User Experience Advocacy: Be the voice of the user within the company, advocating for the value of design in achieving business goals and ensuring design solutions are aligned with strategic objectives.

• Proven experience (10+ years) in a leadership role within product design, preferably in the online travel, e-commerce, or marketplace industry.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating successful design solutions and strategy implementation.
• Beyond just principles, you possess strong expertise in UX/UI design, research methodologies and a dedication to the craft. You'll need to roll up your sleeves and get hands-on, directly contributing to and producing design work, even while leading. A deep understanding of design systems (like PIXAR) and their implementation for product consistency and scalability is also essential.
• Excellent leadership and team management skills, with a track record of building, inspiring, and mentoring product design teams.
• Ability to define design strategy and translate complex business goals and user needs into compelling design solutions.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, with experience working with cross-functional teams in an agile development environment. Proven ability to integrate feedback constructively in a fast-paced environment.
• Solid understanding of how design translates into development, ensuring feasibility and efficient implementation.
• Full working proficiency in English.
• Alignment with our

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