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EcoVadis is the leading provider of business sustainability ratings.

Our solutions are backed by an international team of experts and powerful technology. We analyze data and build sustainability scorecards that give companies actionable insights into their environmental, social and ethical risks.

Why apply to EcoVadis?

Be a part of the global sustainability change in business. Grow your career. Work with extraordinary people. Feel valued for your contribution.

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Our Product and Solution team is seeking a Director/Head of Product Design to transform our Design Team. You will lead all aspects of user experience for our multi-product portfolio including visual and interaction design, user research and design systems (15 people). As the Head of Design, you will raise the agility and quality of our product experiences to be on par with leading consumer user experiences. You will shift the conversation from, “How long does it take to do this?” to “What else can we do?” In this role, you will report to the VP Ratings and Platform Product Management and have executive visibility to the Chief Product Officer of EcoVadis. 

In this role you will: 

• Leadership responsibilities: 

  • Develop and own the product design vision for EcoVadis. Through partnership with our CPO, engineering and product leadership, and your own earned insight, you will craft the vision for how the design of our products will evolve and how this evolution supports our product and business goals
  • Work with product managers, engineering, and other stakeholders to establish objectives, high-level strategies, and key results for the design team. Understand the design needs of large-scale software projects, identify priority areas for design and break them down into achievable tasks

• Creative responsibilities:

  • Develop design strategy, standards, and vision, ensuring the team delivers cutting-edge UX/UI, user flows, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and detailed mockups.
  • Ensure the team and projects are well planned, scoped, and organized to ensure their timely delivery. Champion fast iteration, user research, and smart experimentation
  • Enhance product usability by assessing qualitative and quantitative signals (ex: NPS, product usage, user testing) 

• People & Ops responsibilities

  • Lead and nurture a young and ambitious design team (based primarily in Warsaw, Poland)
  • Ensure right tools and processes are in place for the team to do their best work

• 10+ years of experience in human-centered or service design ideally in building software subscription based products (can be in either software or non-tech industries)
• Strong business results orientation enabled by a portfolio of world class quality design achievements as an individual, manager, and leader; you are as comfortable with data as design
• Execution oriented mindset - with the humility, drive, and scrappiness to get it done
• Experience collaborating with large teams. Strong communication, facilitation and presentation skills
• Experience in the dynamic growth of a company and teams; brings structure to uncertainty 
• Business fluency in English; ability to lead multi-cultural teams across time zones

Location: UK, France, Poland, Spain, Germany

Life at the Barcelona Office

Our growing team in Spain is full of talented professionals from various fields who all share a desire to make sustainability real. We offer competitive salaries and support personal growth from day one. This includes extensive onboarding, teammates' support and a brand new e-learning platform bursting with courses and modules. So you can learn new skills and fine-tune old ones!

We also provide our team with the benefits of flexible working. Some of us work from home and some prefer to work from our easily accessible (metro, tram, bus, bike, suburban train) office hub in Barcelona, located in the dynamic area of Gloriès!

If you come to the office, you can work in the open space or public areas while enjoying the panorama of Barcelona, and also take breaks on our lovely terrace. At Ecovadis we embrace teamspirit. We organize regular onsite and online team breakfasts, and our CSR team coordinates events where we can give back to local communities and ecosystems ! For that, everyone at EcoVadis can use a community service day.

Benefits 

Last but not least, EcoVadis will support you with all the necessary office equipment, holidays in line with Spanish labor law, optional (fully covered or co-financed) health care and life insurance. You will be also entitled to a 150 euros monthly allowance for transportation, meals and nursery with the Cobee card. We also participate up to half of the private health insurance contract and provide you with a special envelope for office and IT equipment (as per the flexibility policy). Lastly, you will also be entitled to a Wellness Allowance that will support you in sport, artistic and wellness activities. 

Our hiring team looks forward to reviewing your CV and covering letter with a guaranteed response to every application. A new job with purpose awaits you!

Don’t fit all the criteria but still think you’d be a good candidate? Please apply anyway to give our hiring team the opportunity to assess your skills and to learn more about what you could bring to EcoVadis. We’re interested in hiring capable people, regardless of professional and educational background.

Can the hiring process be adjusted to suit my needs? Yes. We want everyone going through the hiring process with EcoVadis to feel confident that you are able to demonstrate your full potential. We welcome applications from disabled people, people with long-term health conditions and neurodiverse candidates. If you need any adjustments, please let the hiring team know.

Our team’s strength comes from everyone’s uniqueness and is founded upon mutual respect. EcoVadis commits to equity and inclusion and does not accept any form of discrimination based on color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, beliefs, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, disability, parental status, or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique.