Principal Product Designer - Loyalty (all genders) - parental leave cover

Zalando SE; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

27 days holiday per year

Paid volunteering days

Employee shares program

Health and wellbeing options

Mental health support

Zusammenfassung

Zalando SE in Berlin is looking for a Principal Product Designer to lead the design of their loyalty program. You will drive the UX vision and mentor junior designers while collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.

The ideal candidate has a proven record in designing visually appealing digital products and strong UX/UI skills. This is a temporary contract covering parental leave with an attractive hybrid work model and various employee benefits, including health support and holiday options.

Qualifikationen

• Proven track record in designing customer-facing digital products.
• Exceptional visual skills including hierarchy, typography, and layout.
• Ability to translate brand identity into a design system.

Aufgaben

• Lead the design of Zalando's loyalty experience.
• Shape the strategic UX for the loyalty ecosystem.
• Mentor senior designers and lead design explorations.

Kenntnisse

Architecting visually rich products

Exceptional visual storytelling

Advanced prototyping expertise

Strong foundational UX/UI skills

A/B testing and product analytics

Jobbeschreibung

Principal Product Designer – Loyalty Design Team (Berlin)

Job Overview

Lead the design of Zalando’s Plus loyalty experience, owning the vision, executing projects, and mentoring junior designers, while collaborating with product, engineering and commercial stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define the North Star Vision: shape the strategic UX and visual direction for the loyalty ecosystem.
• Drive cross‑functional alignment with product, engineering and brand leadership.
• Own the conceptual ambition of the Plus program – design sophisticated, gamified systems such as missions and tier levels.
• Champion the evolution of the design system, setting new visual principles, motion frameworks and interaction standards.
• Lead discovery‑driven exploration: conduct design sprints, run rapid prototyping, test AI‑driven or 0‑to‑1 concepts.
• Elevate the community: mentor senior designers, run masterclasses, critiques and thought‑leadership activities.

Qualifications

• Master of Product Craft – proven track record of architecting visually rich, customer‑facing digital products.
• Refined aesthetic lens – exceptional visual storytelling, hierarchy, typography, colour and layout skills.
• Bridge brand and product – translate brand DNA into a living design system that drives user goals.
• Systemic yet creative – advanced prototyping and design‑system expertise, knowing when to break rules.
• Influential communicator – clear, confident rationale, aligning engineers, product managers and executive stakeholders.
• Driven by experimentation – growth mindset, validating ideas via rapid prototyping, user data and continuous testing.
• Design for everyone – unwavering accessibility and inclusive design advocate.
• Elevate the room – natural mentor, raising quality bars through constructive feedback.
• Strong foundational UX/UI skills, experience with A/B testing, product analytics, design experiments, concept design methods and user research.

Additional Information

This is a temporary, limited‑term contract covering a parental leave of absence.

We ask that applicants refrain from including personal details such as photo, age or marital status in the CV to ensure a fair evaluation based solely on qualifications and skills.

If you require any accommodations during the hiring process, please let us know – we are committed to providing an accessible candidate experience.

Benefits

• 27 days of holiday per year for full‑time employees (up to 30 days after 10 years of service)
• 2 paid volunteering days per year
• Hybrid working model – up to 60% remote per week (team‑specific)
• Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
• Employee shares program
• 40% off fashion and beauty products, 30% off Lounge by Zalando and external partner discounts
• Relocation assistance (subject to prior agreement)
• Family services, including counselling and support
• Health and wellbeing options (Wellhub, formerly Gympass)
• Mental health support and coaching
• Development via training platform and biannual peer‑to‑peer review