VP, Product Design

Jobtailor; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Jobtailor seeks a design leader to build and guide a design organization of about 10 designers, owning the product vision and hands-on craft. You will partner with executives to drive AI-native design practices and influence product strategy across engineering, data, marketing, and commercial teams.

You will defend design decisions in executive rooms, lead through ambiguity, and travel as needed while reporting to the Chief Product Officer.

Qualifikationen

• Design leader with hands-on craft at senior levels and a track record delivering consumer products.
• Experience guiding a design org through major changes, ideally with AI tooling.
• Strong, well-argued opinions about what makes a sports product great.
• Ability to defend product opinions in executive rooms and lead across teams.
• Comfort with ambiguity and willingness to travel regularly.

Aufgaben

• Develop product vision and working prototypes for the next-generation sports app.
• Own strategic visioning and design output with cross-functional leadership.
• Drive product decisions that align the executive team.
• Bring data-backed perspectives to product planning and influence business priorities.
• Partner with VP Engineering, VP Data, and CPO to steer design strategy.
• Review flows, work in Figma, and prototype with the design team.
• Define tools, workflows, and team structure for an AI-native design practice.
• Build, coach, and manage a design organization of ~10 people.
• Establish clear accountability for team and individual deliverables.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, data, marketing, and commercial leadership.
• Report to the Chief Product Officer.

Kenntnisse

Design Leadership

Hands-on Craft

AI Tools

Cross-functional Leadership

Strategic Vision

Team Management

Stakeholder Communication

Tools

Figma

AI Tooling

Jobbeschreibung

• Develop product vision and working prototypes for the next-generation sports app.
• Own strategic visioning and design output with cross-functional leadership.
• Drive product decisions that align the executive team.
• Bring data-backed perspectives to product planning and influence business priorities and metrics.
• Partner with the VP of Engineering, VP of Data, and Chief Product Officer.
• Review flows, work directly in Figma, and prototype alongside the design team.
• Define tools, workflows, and team structure for an AI-native design practice.
• Build, coach, and manage a design organization of approximately 10 people.
• Establish clear accountability for team and individual deliverables.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, data, marketing, and commercial leadership.
• Report to the Chief Product Officer.

Requirements

• Someone who is a sports fan first, who uses the product, has opinions about it, and lets that passion show up in the work.
• A design leader with a track record of hands-on craft at senior levels.
• Recent, personal work demonstrating hands-on craft.
• Experience leading a design org through a step-change in how it works, ideally involving AI tooling and workflow, at a company shipping consumer product at scale.
• Strong, well-argued opinions about what makes a sports product, or a comparable habit-forming consumer product, great.
• Conviction to defend product opinions in a room of product and engineering leaders.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity.
• Some regular travel is required.
• Experience starting or running your own company or side project is nice to have.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in product vision development and design leadership, with a strong focus on AI-native design practices and team management. Proven ability to influence product strategy and collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams in a consumer product environment.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Product Vision Development
• Design Leadership
• AI-Native Design Practices
• Team Management
• Consumer Product Strategy

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Prototyping
• Figma
• Design Craft
• Data-Backed Product Planning
• Workflow Definition

Soft Skills

• Collaboration
• Strategic Visioning
• Accountability
• Comfort Operating in Ambiguity
• Defending Product Opinions

Industry Keywords

• Sports App
• Consumer Product
• Design Organization
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Team Structure