Lead Designer, EU Platform & Design System (Hybrid Paris)

Kaluza; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 63,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Health insurance (Alan Mutuelle)

Life & Death insurance (Prévoyance)

50% commuting expense reimbursement

Home Working Allowance €200

Learning Fund €150

25 days holiday + RTT + Volunteering/休

Job summary

Kaluza is seeking a Lead Designer (FDE) in Paris to own the EU UX strategy end-to-end, collaborating with Product, Engineering and Data to prioritise user-centred outcomes. This hybrid role requires three days in the office weekly and leads a growing EU design footprint.

You’ll steer a distributed team, contribute to a shared design system, and prototype with AI-assisted tools, shaping decisions for multiple clients within a scalable platform.

Qualifications

• Proven track record owning UX strategy and delivery end to end for a complex, multi-stakeholder product.
• Experience designing in B2B or B2B2C environments for professional users.
• Direct experience mentoring designers and leading a small team.
• Experience contributing to a shared platform or design system.
• Comfort working close to code and using AI-assisted development tools to prototype interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Own UX strategy for EU programme end to end, prioritising work as the market and team evolve.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data, bringing user needs into decisions from the start.
• Use established research methods to bring real insights into design work and feed learnings to the wider team.
• Lead and grow two designers based in London, building a connected EU/UK design team.
• Shape how local work integrates with the shared platform and design system.
• Build directly in code where useful using AI-assisted tools to prototype or ship small front-end changes.
• Contribute to trade-off discussions between PMs and Design, balancing client needs with a global approach.
• Help define design leadership across a distributed function UK, EU, and Australia.

Skills

UX strategy

B2B/B2B2C design

Team mentoring

Design system

Code-friendly

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

Kaluza is seeking a Lead Designer (FDE) in Paris to own the EU UX strategy end-to-end, collaborating with Product, Engineering and Data to prioritise user-centred outcomes. This hybrid role requires three days in the office weekly and leads a growing EU design footprint.

You’ll steer a distributed team, contribute to a shared design system, and prototype with AI-assisted tools, shaping decisions for multiple clients within a scalable platform.