Design Lead (f/m/d) UX/IX/VD Personalization Services in LeipzigSNGießerstraße 2704229Germany

Your Responsibilities

• You will drive the impact of UX/UI and Visual Design on our customers
• You will develop the Spreadshirt brand and establish a clear connection between product design and visual design, in close collaboration with the Design Lead from Spreadshirt Marketplaces
• You will improve our design process and establish a design strategy together with other Design Leads that ensures high quality results
• You will create a design vision that brings user and business needs in line, and drive forth its development
• You will be responsible for the user experience, product and visual outcome within the Personalization Services department
• You will align user needs and stakeholder needs, while maintaining a user-centric focus
• You will lead and mentor an experienced visual designer
• You will collaborate with directors, product owners, and marketers across the business unit and organization
• You will participate in user testing and analyze results with the rest of the product team and the user research team
• You will create prototypes from the first sketch to professional mock-ups and document user interface/ interactions requirements for engineers
• You will directly report to the commercial director of the Personalization Services department (the Create-Your-Own section)
• You will be a member of the product team and work closely together with Spread Group’s Design Guild
• You will employ design thinking, workshop techniques, and visualization skills to influence strategy and decision making across the business unit

Your Profile

• You have excellent interaction abilities and visual design skills
• You have at least worked in a web-design environment for 5 years, and at least 3 years of those in product design
• You have proven experience of combining a customer-centric mindset with business goals
• You have already developed a visionary product concept through to its implementation in an agile environment
• You have gained experience with prototyping as a means of exploring and conveying design solutions
• You have a pragmatic approach to developing design ideas with teams of designers, business leaders, and engineers
• You have an outstanding portfolio showcasing a solid foundation in typography, interaction, and visual design
• You have a strong commercial focus
• You can speak and write in English excellently

Nice to have

• Agency experience is a plus
• Some experience working with user research (ethnography, contextual interviews, setting up user test goals)

We value diversity at Spread Group. We are proud of and continue to encourage the increasing diversity of our company culture and community. Your skills, talents, and experience are our focus no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital or disability status.

We Offer

• High levels of responsibility and career development opportunities
• An open and colorful company culture with flexible working hours
• A lot of room for your ideas in a relaxed work environment
• Great work with friendly colleagues in motivated teams and flat hierarchies
• Continuous training with workshops and conferences
• Bright and friendly offices, a huge kitchen area for mutual lunch breaks, terraced roofs and a lot more
• A feel-good factor thanks to free fruit baskets, water dispensers and coffee vendors as well as PlayStation, table tennis & table football, heaps of events and – of course – a whole lot of T-shirts