Director of Product Design (f / m / d)

Your Responsibilities

As our Director of Product Design, you'll manage a team of experienced Designers and UX Researchers. User-centric design is a core part of our product strategy and you'll have an impact that extends beyond your own team and function. Alongside your peers from Product Management, Engineering and Marketing, you'll set the stage to evolve our product offering while ensuring excellent processes within your team.

This role offers you the chance to dive into a decentralized setting that navigates within a dynamic and future-facing market. With your skills as a manager, facilitator and advocate for good design, you'll take the team and our user experience to the next level. Apply now!

What Makes You Special

Real Life Experience.  You have 5+ years' of experience working as a Product Designer, as well as 2+ years' in managing teams, ideally in a B2B SaaS / Productivity domain.

Product Design Champion.  You have a track record of shipping web and mobile products from ideation to iterative release. As a lead, you guide your direct reports in contributing best-of-class design components and UX patterns to the global design system and commit to upholding the highest standards and a shared vision.

Design Operations Specialist.  You're passionate about increasing team efficiency by streamlining processes and improving workflows and tools, all within remote and asynchronous work environments. You have experience in setting up, implementing and evolving Design Systems.

Strategy driver. You have experience formulating and executing a comprehensive design and UX strategy that aligns with the product strategy and company's long-term objectives. You know how to drive product innovation and how to turn user experience into revenue growth.

User-Centered Approach. You can translate customer insights, feedback, and market research into valuable design insights. Your ability to dive deep into the Productivity SaaS market gives you a deep understanding of our target audiences and how to build a strategy that resonates with them.

Analytic Mindset.  You're proficient on product and design KPIs and use them to inform your discovery, ideation and implementation phases, ensuring to enhance product quality every step of the way

Research Expertise.  You’re well-versed in generative and evaluative user research to identify user problems and deriving insights. Knowledge on cross-company research operations is a bonus.

Management Credentials.  You know how to mentor and guide a team of senior designers and researchers by creating an environment of open feedback and nurturing their performance and career progression.

Stakeholder Management.  You're confident in managing demands and goals from different departments and in steering impactful decisions that reach beyond your own domain.

Communication Skills.  Your effective communication skills for collaboration with team members, stakeholders, and customers, convey complex matters clearly and concisely. Speaking German is a plus!

Meister and You

• Find your place. We’re ambitious and well-funded : driving innovation and bringing value to users.
• Feel valued.  Salaries at Meister fit your skills and experience. You’ll share in our success with an employee stock ownership program additional to your pay.
• Never stop developing . Progress along clear career paths, aided by experienced mentors who know Meister inside-out. Learn new skills and tailor your individual training plan.
• Level up.  Dedicated learning budget just for you and your growth.
• Get out there. Attend industry meetups and participate in exciting events like React Conf, EuRoKo and more.
• Choose where. Work with us in Vienna and / or remotely in Austria or Germany. Full-remote possibilities for international team members.
• Choose when. Organize your work week as you like with our flexitime agreement.
• Work your way. Embrace our flexible workation policy to keep working effectively from wherever inspires you most.
• Choose how. Select your own hardware and join an agile environment that promotes autonomy.
• Get there . Public transport card or other commuter benefits.
• Stay healthy . Subsidized indoor, outdoor and wellness activities in Austria, Germany or the US.
• Relax. Extra vacation day on your birthday, plus December 24 and 31. Entitlement increases the longer you’re at Meister.
• Celebrate. Regular events, including an annual company retreat and frequent team activities.

About us

For millions of teams worldwide, Meister products are an indispensable part of a successful working life. We create stunningly-designed, team-focused and user-friendly tools that bring joy to work and simplicity to collaboration : our users, products and team all work beautifully together. With entities in Vienna, Munich and Seattle, we’ve established a strong base for more than 130 talented employees to fulfill their potential. Now, thanks to an empowering system for remote work, we can search the world for the best tech talent, finding new team members who drive us toward our ambitious global goals. You could be one of them : make the leap and join an established, well-funded software company that lives and breathes innovation.