Mid or Senior Product Designer

Akeneo; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Akeneo is the Product Experience (PX) company and global leader in Product Information Management (PIM), creating a world where every product interaction is an experience that guides consumers and professionals to the best purchase, anytime, anywhere.

We're all about experience - from the best-in-class product we build to the inspiring environment we create for our employees. You'll grow in a dynamic environment where your ideas and expertise will make an impact from day one. Our flexible work model empowers you to thrive, balancing professional success with personal fulfillment. At Akeneo, you’ll be part of a supportive and collaborative team that values open communication, shared successes, and meaningful relationships.

Learn more about our culture and values via our Career page.

Job description

We’re looking for a talented Product Designer with a strong bias toward action to join us. We’re open to Mid-level and Senior applicants.

In the Akeneo organisation, each Product Line operates independently under a Single Threaded Owner (STO) at VP level. Within each Product Line, multiple Area Single Threaded Owners (Area-STOs) at Director level oversee several Impact Teams. Each Impact Team, led by an Impact Owner, comprises approximately eight engineers, designers and PMs who work autonomously, following their own processes and methodologies.

Akeneo’s products are recognised worldwide for their ease of use by customers, partners, and market analysts. As we scale and enter a new strategic phase in an increasingly competitive market, delivering a seamless, intuitive user experience is more critical than ever. That’s why we’re forming a brand-new team dedicated to simplify the end-to-end experience across our products, and at every stage of the user lifecycle—from discovery to onboarding, adoption to expansion. We want Akeneo to be the most intuitive and indispensable platform for bringing products to life. And we need your help to make it happen.

Reporting directly to your team's Impact Owner, you will collaborate closely with teams of engineers, product managers, designers and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end product design activities for your team, with an impact-oriented mindset. Bring team members together during the entire design journey.
• Conduct lean & continuous research activities, such as user/customer/partner interviews, surveys, usability testing, co-creation programs, etc.
• When valuable, create design artefacts such as sketches, flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI.
• Work closely with engineering to ensure a high-quality implementation and outstanding user experience.
• Co-design with your team, Design peers and customers. Solicit and provide constructive feedback on a regular basis.
• Work with our Design Ops, Researchers and the rest of the Design team to continuously improve our ways of working.
• Ensure design consistency by contributing to our Design System, allowing us to continuously raise the bar of user experience for our entire product suite.

Qualifications

• Whatever your training, you have at least 4+ years of experience in UX/UI/Product design. You have a strong background in UX which includes solid qualitative research skills (interviews, usability testing, etc.) and co-creation methods (cross-functional workshops, design jams, design sprints, etc.).
• You have significant experience designing in B2B, Saas is a plus.
• You have a growth mindset, a good emotional intelligence, and embrace change.
• Ideally, you have experience working in an Impact Team environment.
• You’re comfortable using Figma.

Life at Akeneo

Culture

Diverse, cross-cultural team.

Office parties, team offsites.

Top-notch 8-week onboarding programme for new teammates, including live presentations, online courses you can take at your own pace, and an exhaustive checklist with all the resources, calls-to-action and support contacts for a smooth integration into the company.

General

Competitive package and complementary health insurance.

Time off

Flexible working hours and hybrid setup (up to 3-4 days per week working from home).

25 days holiday per calendar year in addition to Public Holidays.

16 weeks (France) / 26 weeks (UK) paid maternity leave - (30-33 days paid leave if you are the second parent).

Gradual Return to Work program after maternity or adoption leave.

️Work from Anywhere Scheme - Explore the possibility of working from anywhere in the world for up to 30 days per year.

Health & Wellness

Individual and confidential coaching sessions with a mental health practitioner of your choice.

Equipment

Best-in-class communication and collaboration tools: Slack, Notion, Google Suite, Jira, GitHub...

A €500/£450 personal hybrid working allowance to maximize your home office environment.

Professional Development

Participation in in-house events welcoming external guests (i.e. Meetups) or industry events

A €/£1,000 learning budget per employee per year.

Perks & Discounts

Get your Swile lunch card funded at 50% by the company (France only).

️Comité Social et Economique: advantages and deductions on cultural activities, entertainment etc. (France only.)

Take advantage of our company crèche whether you need a nursery spot (subject to availability), emergency childcare, or care for Wednesdays and school vacations. (France only.)

A €45/£80 per month Sustainable Transportation Allowance to support eco-friendly commuting options such as public transportation, biking, or carpooling if eligible.

Corporate Responsibility

Employee Volunteering program: give back to the community with 2 days per year dedicated to supporting the charities of your choice.

Join one or several of our Employee Resource Groups and take an active part in promoting diversity and inclusion within our company.

Diversity & Inclusion: Akeneo provides and ensures a safe work environment for everyone, regardless of seniority, gender identity, and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other characteristics. Akeneo is deeply anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-sexist, anti-ableist, and inclusive. We create the right conditions for you to feel safe and be yourself.