Remote Product Design Manager — Lead a B2B Design Team

Pennylane; Portugal; Remote; EUR 110.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Company shares

25 vacation days

Budget for home workspace

Monthly coworking allowance

Gymlib access

Busuu access

Latest Apple equipment

Remote work from Europe

Regular company events

France-specific RTT and PTO (France)

Zusammenfassung

Pennylane is seeking a Product Design Manager to lead a team of five designers across cross-functional squads, partnering with Engineering, Product, and Design to shape the user experience for French SMEs and accounting partners.

You will mentor, collaborate with senior executives, translate JTBD and design guidelines into actionable work, and drive design strategy while balancing speed and quality in a dynamic European fintech environment.

Qualifikationen

• A strong track record of leading product design teams.
• Fluency in French and proficiency in English.
• An excellent eye for design with the capability to assist the team with ideas and creative inputs.
• Excellence in aligning team decisions with the overall vision, JTBD, and design guidelines.
• Experience discovering and solving complex problems through data and insights.
• Experience fostering an inclusive, open, and engaged design team culture.
• Comfort in communicating future design directions with senior stakeholders, including founders, to inspire positive action.
• A collaborative approach with experience working closely with Designers, Engineers, and Product Managers.
• Significant experience collaborating with senior executives (C-level, Executive Committee, etc.).
• Ability to simplify, synthesize, and translate complex issues for non-expert audiences.
• Ability to present and defend decisions to senior stakeholders.
• Energy for an ever-shifting work environment.
• High level of collaboration within your team and with other stakeholders.
• Sufficient experience to prioritize business-led actions in day-to-day activities.

Aufgaben

• Scale and level-up a team of 5 product designers.
• Partner closely with other design leaders, cross-functional partners, and HR partners to hire, develop, and retain design talent in alignment with organizational growth.
• Identify strategic UX opportunities to increase user productivity and drive these forward with product and engineering peers at the track level.
• Orchestrate user research with product leads and your team to understand the behavior, needs, and wants of accounting partners and convert them into actionable insights.
• Measure the effect of design on business performance and oversee critical strategic directions.
• Continuously contribute expertise to the business through insights and best practices for users.
• Help the team balance speed, quality, and design consistency, focusing on JTBD and business goals.
• Shape and establish design processes to drive best practices, impact, and efficiency across the team.
• Partner with design ops teams.

Kenntnisse

Team leadership

Design leadership

Stakeholder communication

JTBD

Data-informed design

Cross-functional collaboration

Vision alignment

Executive engagement

Jobbeschreibung

Pennylane is seeking a Product Design Manager to lead a team of five designers across cross-functional squads, partnering with Engineering, Product, and Design to shape the user experience for French SMEs and accounting partners.

You will mentor, collaborate with senior executives, translate JTBD and design guidelines into actionable work, and drive design strategy while balancing speed and quality in a dynamic European fintech environment.