Senior Product Designer - AI-Driven, Systems Leadership

Spendesk; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Flexible hybrid model

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Spendesk is seeking a Lead Product Designer to shape the future of its product experience with a focus on AI-powered and automation-driven workflows. You will work across connected squads, partnering with PMs, Engineers, and designers to ensure a coherent experience and priority-focused outcomes.

You will lead discovery and design initiatives while staying hands-on, establish design principles, and mentor other designers to raise overall quality and impact.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing complex digital products in cross-functional teams.
• Experience leading design across multiple squads or large product domains.
• Strong product and strategic thinking connecting user needs to business priorities.
• Excellent systems thinking, interaction design, and information architecture skills.
• Proven ability to use research and evidence to shape direction.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and storytelling to influence stakeholders.
• Experience coaching designers to raise team quality and autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Shape product and experience direction across several connected squads or a significant product area.
• Connect customer insight, product strategy, business objectives, and technical context to identify high-impact opportunities.
• Align cross-functional teams around shared problems, principles, outcomes, and success measures.
• Lead complex design initiatives across discovery, exploration, delivery, measurement, and iteration while remaining hands-on.
• Create coherent end-to-end experiences and resolve systemic UX issues across workflows and squads.
• Establish and uphold standards for interaction design, information architecture, accessibility, content, and visual quality.
• Improve cross-squad collaboration by surfacing dependencies and guiding decisions.
• Coach and support designers to grow autonomy, craft, and product thinking.

Skills

Complex product design

Lead multi-squad design

Product thinking

Systems thinking

Research-driven decisions

Communication skills

Designer coaching

Job description

Spendesk is seeking a Lead Product Designer to shape the future of its product experience with a focus on AI-powered and automation-driven workflows. You will work across connected squads, partnering with PMs, Engineers, and designers to ensure a coherent experience and priority-focused outcomes.

You will lead discovery and design initiatives while staying hands-on, establish design principles, and mentor other designers to raise overall quality and impact.