Lead UX Designer - EU Strategy, Hybrid Paris

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

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Alan Mutuelle Health Insurance

Life & Death insurance (Prévoyance)

Sécurité Sociale contributions (pold)

50% commuting expense reimbursement

€200 Home Working Allowance

€150 Learning Fund

25 days holiday + bank holidays + RTT

Moments That Matter Leave

Compassionate Leave

Volunteering Days

Flexible Working

Career Break eligibility

Job summary

Kaluza is seeking a Lead Designer in Paris to own UX strategy across the EU programme. You will partner with Product, Engineering and Data locally, guide researchers, and mentor two designers in London.

This role builds a connected EU/UK team, shaping the platform and design system for multiple clients while blending design and code with AI-assisted tooling. We offer a hybrid setup with three days in the office, aiming to decarbonise energy across Europe.

Qualifications

• A track record owning UX strategy and delivery end to end for a complex, multi-stakeholder product, ideally in a regulated or operationally complex industry
• Experience designing in B2B or B2B2C environments, for professional, repeat users rather than casual consumers
• Direct experience managing or mentoring other designers, comfortable leading a small team while still doing hands‑on design work yourself
• Experience working from, and contributing back to, a shared platform or design system, not just consuming one
• Comfort working close to code, confident using AI-assisted development tools (such as Claude Code) to go from design to a working interface yourself
• A genuine appetite for building something from an early stage, comfortable with ambiguity that comes with shaping a team and a market presence, not just operating inside one already settled

Responsibilities

• Own UX strategy for our EU programme end to end, with real judgement over what to prioritise and how, as the market and the team's shape itself still takes form
• Partner directly with Product, Engineering, and Data on the ground locally, including wider teams and client-side engineers,bringing user needs into decisions from the start, not added on afterward
• Use our established research methods to bring real insight into your own design work, and feed what you learn locally back into the wider team's shared understanding
• Lead and grow two designers based in London, building one genuinely connected team across EU and the UK from early on
• Shape how local work becomes part of our shared platform and design system, so what you build here compounds for every client after, not just this one
• Build directly in code where useful, using AI-assisted tools to prototype or ship small front-end changes yourself, closing the gap between design and delivery
• Go beyond representing UX, be an active voice in the trade-offs between PMs and Design, holding the right balance between client-specific needs and our global approach, including directly with clients and stakeholders in workshops, showcases, and pre-sales conversations across the EU market
• Help define what design leadership looks like across a genuinely distributed function, UK, EU, and Australia, while it's still being built

Skills

UX strategy

Team leadership

B2B design

Mentoring

Design system

Frontend prototyping

Claude Code

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

Kaluza is seeking a Lead Designer in Paris to own UX strategy across the EU programme. You will partner with Product, Engineering and Data locally, guide researchers, and mentor two designers in London.

This role builds a connected EU/UK team, shaping the platform and design system for multiple clients while blending design and code with AI-assisted tooling. We offer a hybrid setup with three days in the office, aiming to decarbonise energy across Europe.