Head of Product Design

Ultimate VC List; Paris; Hybride; EUR 120 000 - 170 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Stock options

Sabbatical every 3 years

Books for learning

Team building events

Résumé du poste

Malt is seeking a Head of Product Design to lead a high-impact segment of the design org and partner with product and engineering to connect freelancers and clients globally. You will elevate core product experiences to drive growth, lead a design team with focus on craft, safety, and scalable journeys, and partner with AI workflow initiatives.

Reporting to the VP of Design, you will own strategy, roadmaps, and the aesthetic direction while fostering psychological safety and top talent.

Qualifications

• Management experience guiding design talent in fast-paced product orgs.
• Strategic alignment between design and business metrics.
• Experience tackling generative AI UX patterns and trust in AI-driven automation.
• Ability to translate complex data states into simple interfaces.
• Experience with B2B platforms or multi-sided marketplaces.

Responsabilités

• Lead a high-impact segment of the design org and partner with product/tech to shape strategy.
• Define experience strategy and influence multi-team roadmaps driving growth.
• Set aesthetic direction and design principles for scalable product areas.
• Instill data-informed discovery and rigorous user research across teams.
• Optimize design-to-delivery lifecycle balancing MVPs and refined flows.
• Foster cross-functional alignment to secure tech investment for growth.
• Collaborate with AI/Experience Systems to inform design system strategy.
• Evaluate and pilot AI-assisted design tooling and workflows.

Connaissances

Management

Strategy alignment

AI UX

UX foundations

Data & insights

B2B / Marketplace

English fluency

Description du poste

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!

Explore your future career

As the Head of Product Design at Malt, you will lead a high-impact segment of our design organization, acting as a strategic partner in shaping how freelancers and clients connect, transact, and collaborate globally.

Your mission is to elevate Malt’s core product experience by connecting exceptional user experiences directly to commercial growth. Under your leadership, your initiatives will drive demonstrable lifts in core user health metrics, conversion funnels, and key commercial KPIs. You will ensure the product design function is staffed with top talent, fostering a culture of strong psychological safety and maintaining a high craft quality bar.

Reporting to Stefanie Fleisch (VP of Design), you will take a holistic view of our primary product domains. Your goal is to break down feature silos across multi-squad streams, delivering cohesive user journeys that are intuitive, clean, and built to scale.

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.

Malt is the perfect space to thrive personally and professionally

- Onboarding: Before easing into your new role, you’ll spend your first week learning about our culture, products, and services with other new joiners at our office in Paris

- Equity: Every Malter is entitled to stock options

- Malt sabbatical: Every three years, all Malters are entitled to a one month fully paid sabbatical leave

- Free books: If you’re interested in learning more about any topic relevant to Malt’s business, just tell us the books you’d like to read, and we’ll order them for you—without any questions asked or approval processes to follow

- Team building events organized every year

Ready? Get your ticket to Malt

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