Design Director

Mentimeter; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 982,000 - 1,138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contributions

Leadership development program

Hybrid work setup

Job summary

Mentimeter, a Stockholm-based company, seeks a Design Director for Engagement Tools and Insights to lead design direction and raise the bar across product areas. You will partner with Product and Engineering leaders to shape strategy and ensure design decisions drive measurable customer and business impact.

You will lead through the work, recruit and coach designers, and push AI-enabled design while maintaining a strong product focus.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in design leadership roles within fast-moving, product-led organisations.
• Proven track record of delivering measurable product outcomes through design leadership.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating craft and range.
• Player-coach leadership style with credibility among senior designers.
• Experience setting direction and connecting decisions to product outcomes.
• Business acumen to partner with product and engineering leadership.
• Excellent communication to align teams and stakeholders.
• Practical experience applying AI to design exploration, prototyping and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Set the experience direction for product areas, defining a clear vision and high quality bar.
• Lead the design of new AI powered products and shape product-market fit in ambiguity.
• Drive product impact by linking design decisions to activation, engagement and retention metrics.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering Directors to shape area strategy and roadmap.
• Own coherence across the Engagement Suite and ensure journeys feel like one product.
• Recruit, coach and grow Product Designers through hands-on work and feedback.
• Elevate design standards across leadership through critique and shared principles.
• Evolve practice with AI while protecting product thinking and craft.

Skills

Design leadership

Product design leadership

Communication skills

AI in design

Strategy & roadmaps

Job description

Mentimeter is an engagement tool with a clear goal in mind. To turn presentations into conversations. Through real-time interactivity and clear visualizations, we get people to participate, engage and become more productive. Transforming all those passive meetings, airless classrooms and drawn out trainings into valuable and memorable moments.

We truly believe that you achieve the best results by doing things together. And that successful leaders need to adopt a curious and collaborative mindset in order to get there. So with you at Mentimeter, you’ll be a big part of the ambition to help over 1 billion people listen, learn and work better together.

The Role

As Design Director for our Engagement Tools and Insights area, you will own parts of the core experience that hundreds of millions of people rely on to turn passive audiences into active participants. This is a role for a design leader who sets direction by shaping the work, not only by managing it.

You will join a product company at a pivotal moment. As Mentimeter evolves from a single tool into an integrated Engagement Suite, the hardest and most valuable design problems now live at the seams, where journeys span areas and coherence is a competitive advantage. You will operate in two primary contexts: within your Product Area Leadership, where the work happens alongside the Product Director and Engineering Director, and within the Design Leadership Team, partnering the Chief Design Officer and fellow Design leaders. You will define the experience direction for your areas and make sure design decisions translate into measurable customer and business impact.

You will report to the Chief Design Officer.

What we are looking for

We are looking for a design leader who leads through the work. Someone with the judgment to set a clear experience direction and the hands-on capability to raise the quality bar by shaping, critiquing, and making alongside the team.

You have led designers in fast-moving, product-led environments, and you have earned your credibility through the impact and quality of your work. You are as comfortable owning experience strategy for a product area as you are getting into the detail of a flow that isn't good enough yet. You operate as a true peer to product and engineering leaders, and you believe design is at its best when it drives outcomes, not when it decorates them.

In this role, you will:

• Set the experience direction: Define a clear experience vision and architecture for your product areas, and hold the quality bar that makes it real.
• Shape what doesn't exist yet: Lead the design of new AI powered products, navigating the ambiguity and complexity of finding product-market fit where there is no established path to follow.
• Drive product impact through design: Own the link between design decisions and the metrics that matter, including activation, engagement, retention, and expansion.
• Lead as a peer in the area: Work alongside the Product Director and Engineering Director to shape area strategy and roadmap, driving user and experience thinking into the decisions that set direction.
• Own coherence across the Engagement Suite: Take responsibility for experience quality at the boundaries with adjacent areas, so journeys that span the product feel like one product.
• Develop the craft and the team: Recruit, coach, and grow Product Designers primarily through the work itself, calibrating performance honestly and having the direct conversations that help people grow.
• Raise the bar with your peers: Work with fellow design leaders to hold shared experience principles and a shared quality standard across the craft, giving and taking critique at leadership level.
• Evolve practice through AI: Push how design understands, explores, prototypes, and delivers with AI, increasing speed and quality while protecting product thinking and craft.

Requirements

• 8+ years in design, including mid-to-senior management experience leading designers in fast-moving, product-led organisations.
• Proven track record of creating impactful product outcomes through design leadership and delivery.
• High personal design capability, with a portfolio that demonstrates craft judgment and range.
• A player-coach leadership style: credible with senior designers, and effective at developing them through the work.
• Track record of setting experience direction and connecting design decisions to measurable product outcomes.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to hold your own as a peer to product and engineering leadership.
• Exceptional communication skills, able to align teams and stakeholders around a clear direction.
• Practical experience applying AI to design exploration, prototyping, and delivery.

Not required

You don’t have to know Swedish. Daily work is carried out in English and the Mentimeter team currently boasts over 50 nationalities!

Compensation

At Mentimeter, we believe in fair and transparent compensation that grows with you.

The salary range for this role is SEK88,000 - SEK102,000 per month. It’s intentionally broad to reflect the different stages of growth within the role. Where an individual is placed within the range depends on factors such as relevant experience, demonstrated skills, and alignment with the role’s requirements.

We’re committed to supporting your growth. You’ll have ongoing development conversations with your manager and build skills, contribute to our mission and have meaningful impact.

What Mentimeter can offer

At Mentimeter we can offer a diverse and inclusive work environment supported by smart and driven colleagues. We believe in continuous professional development for all of our colleagues and therefore offer access to a leadership program (including external personal coach) and relevant education to ensure that we continue to be state-of-the-art when it comes to innovating and building Mentimeter. Your place will be in a growing company with lots of career opportunities, working on a beloved product used by more than 300 million people. It’s not all about work though, we also offer a very healthy view on work-life balance.

All of this comes attached with a competitive compensation and benefits package, including pension contributions. Learn more about our benefits by visiting our Benefits & Perks page

AI and Hiring at Mentimeter

At Mentimeter, we believe AI helps us work smarter - but it never replaces the human assessment, curiosity, and personal connection that define our culture and our hiring. We use AI as a sparring partner: to bounce ideas, bring new perspectives, support structure, and make our work more efficient. But the meaning, decisions, and interactions always come from people.

• AI does not screen or decide on candidates.
• There is no automated filtering, ranking, or decision-making in our recruitment process. Every application is reviewed by a person.
• Hiring teams may use AI to support their work - for example, to structure notes, prepare interview questions, or organize their thinking.

AI strengthens our work, but it does not define it. At Mentimeter, we’re not building an AI-driven hiring process - we’re building a people-first culture, where technology helps us listen, learn, and grow together.

Culture at Mentimeter

At Mentimeter we believe in giving everyone a voice - regardless of who you are. So we build a platform that does just that. Our platform is not only our product but also our organization. A platform where people feel safe, where differences are embraced, a place where you can have fun. We strongly encourage applicants who are people of color, LGBTQ+, women, people with disabilities, and/or formerly incarcerated people, and a college degree is not strictly required. In order to give everyone a voice, we need to be as diverse as our users.

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This role is Stockholm-based, hybrid (3 days/week on-site), with no relocation sponsorship.