Product Design Manager - Owner

  • Full-time
  • Department: Product & Tech
  • City: Hybrid
  • TA Partner: Eve Whitworth

Company Description

About us

At Aviv, we are an equal opportunities employer and an organisation where everyone is welcomed to be their authentic selves. We strongly encourage individuals with visible and non visible disabilities, all educational backgrounds, people from minority backgrounds, those from the LGBTQIA+ community and parents and carers to apply.  If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, or wish to discuss part time or flexible working requirements, please let us know.

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You'll be joining one of the world’s largest privately owned real estate tech companies and a subsidiary of Axel Springer. Our mission is to unlock everyone’s perfect place!  You'll work across some of Europe’s best known digital real estate brands including: 🇫🇷 Meilleurs Agents, 🇫🇷 Groupe SeLoger, 🇧🇪 Immoweb, 🇩🇪 Immowelt, 🇪🇸 Housell and 🇮🇱 Yad2.

Our goal is to be the #1 place that people across Europe come to find a home. You’ll be part of a team that places the customer at the heart of everything we do. You’ll operate in autonomous, cross functional teams. Each with its own mission and success metrics. Teams are given objectives and are empowered to find the best solutions!

Job Description

WE ARE LOOKING FOR AN INDIVIDUAL WHO CAN:

• Attract, hire, and retain an exceptional product design team

• Ensure the engagement of your team members by translating their feedback and ideas into impactful solutions

• Be an active part of our design community, by focusing on collaboration and peer support

• Mentor and coach team members to set concrete goals and develop their strengths

• Facilitate design critique sessions and ensure that the design system is well integrated and that the user's needs are well reflected in the solutions 

• Lead and oversee the user experience of products from conception to launch in partnership with product managers, engineers, UX researchers, data scientists and business analysts.

• Assist in the deep integration of product designers into product and tech teams

• Ensure the smooth running and optimization of existing design processes and methodologies to maximize team efficiency

• Collaborate closely with product and tech leaders to define priorities and scope

• Manage stakeholder expectations and cross-functional team partnerships

• Ensure the successful integration of UX researchers into the teams

• Ensure data driven user experience through a strong integration of user researchers in teams and a close collaboration with market research

Qualifications

AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS:
 

• Good years of experience leading and developing a Product Design team (Head of Design, Product Design Manager,...) 

• Several years experience as a UX Designer, Interaction Designer, Product Designer or similar UX-related role

• You have the technical competence, communication and leadership skills needed to coach the members of your team at every level

• You have the capacity to build strong relationships with other stakeholders

• You are user centric, understand the product process and how design can be perfectly integrated 

• You are empathetic and collaborative
• Experienced in defining and working with the product metrics with your team.

• You are inherently focused about the user needs, you are aiming for excellence but you challenge the status quo responsibility and can always find the middle ground

• You are comfortable in communicating professionally in English as we are an international team.

 

 

Additional Information

WHAT WE OFFER YOU:

• We are one of the leading PropTech platforms in Europe. If you’ve ever rented or purchased a property then you may have used one of our classified portals.  This is a great time to join us to help elevate our AVIV brand.

• A high visibility role in our organisation reporting into our Director of Product.

• 30 Days of Holidays guaranteed and the freedome to organize your day the way it fits you best.

• Opennes for Sabbaticals.

• Unlimited self-development opportunities.

• The opportunity to work hybrid within our operating footprint with international travel to our locations in France, Belgium and Germany.

• The autonomy to work in a style which suits you to be the most productive

• The freedom to tell us which tools you need to be successful in your job so we can set you up to make it happen.

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