UX Manager

  • Full-time

Company Description

Work smart, have fun and make an impact!

Our purpose is to guide all companies toward a sustainable world. 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.

Learn more about our team and culture on EcoVadis careers page

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Job Description

Our Solutions department develop scalable products and solutions that enable all companies to effectively measure, manage and continuously improve their sustainable business practices.

We are a global and multidisciplinary team of 20+ designers, researchers, writers and in-app/email communication specialists in a mission to reduce the complexity of sustainable supply chain management down to the right balance of flexibility, power, and ease of use, guiding all companies toward a sustainable world. We are responsible for Ecovadis' end-to-end multi-product platform experience that also includes integration with 3rd party platforms such as Tableau, etc.

About the Role

As an UX Manager at Ecovadis, you’ll manage programs to improve how we design and build experiences, boosting design excellence, scalability and alignment across teams. This position will report directly to the Design Director, with a reporting team of 5-7 designers.

You will:

  • Vision and direction: Define a vision for how our platform and products should look, feel and interact with each other, as well as an effective strategy for executing on that vision;
  • Design principles: Define principles, standards, and experience guard rails to ensure a cohesive and purposeful end-to-end app experience—and creates the mechanisms to scale this understanding and adherence (I.e. training designers and operationalizing processes) out to the broader UX team that is responsible for designing features within the apps;
  • Design quality: Actively review deliverables and provide feedback to ensure high-quality output;
  • Design System: Manage growth and implementation of design system for scalability alongside cross-functional partners;
  • Cross-product collaboration: Proactively identify large, strategic UX opportunities that span across the product. Work with product teams to drive cross-product initiatives through awareness and prioritization;
  • Usability: Help teams identify and prioritize overall usability improvements to the product;
  • UX process: Set up and manage collaborative processes within our team to ensure multi-disciplinary teams are actively working together;
  • Hiring: Help source talent, interview, review and provide feedback to maintain a high-quality interview process;
  • Career development: Provide coaching for those on your team to grow technical/soft skills and develop career paths;
  • People management: Recognize and help prevent burnout while managing well-being, performance and timely delivery.

Qualifications

  • Strong understanding of design principles - like fonts, layouts, colors, user-centered design, UX patterns, and information architecture;
  • Passion for creating visually pleasing and intuitive user experiences;
  • Knowledgeable across human-centered design, including UX strategy, interaction design, user research, prototyping, and more;
  • Strong leadership, strategic thinking, and practical organizational planning skills;
  • Well-versed in facilitation techniques that enable groups to build clarity and alignment;
  • Sound judgment on what challenges to invest in and what challenges to deprioritize;
  • Experience driving organizational change with cross-functional stakeholders;
  • Experience growing a team of designers and serving as a mentor and advisor to the design team at-large;
  • Communicate with honesty and kindness and create the space for others to do the same;
  • Champion a culture of well-being by recognizing and mitigating burnout risks, while ensuring timely project delivery;
  • Ideal, but not required: Have prior experience working on SaaS products.

Additional Information

Location: Warsaw/remote from Poland
Start date: ASAP
Contract: B2B or CoE

Everyone at EcoVadis contributes to a culture of trust, respect and empowerment. Our growing team in Poland is full of talented professionals from various fields who all share a desire to change the world.

We offer competitive salaries and support personal growth from day one with extensive onboarding, mentoring and a brand new e-learning platform bursting with courses and modules so you can learn new skills and fine-tune old ones.

Our team enjoys 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 the heart of Warsaw. We have regular onsite and online team breakfasts. Our CSR team coordinates events where we can give back to local communities and ecosystems. At the office you can chill in break areas, enjoy a panorama of Warsaw or visit our lovely terrace.

EcoVadis will support you with all the necessary office equipment, holidays in line with Polish labor law, optional (fully covered or co-financed) health care and life insurance, Multisport card as well as a lunch card. Everyone at EcoVadis can also use a community service day when volunteering.

Please, share with us your English CV and portfolio and we can guarantee a 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, inclusion and reducing bias in our hiring processes. EcoVadis 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. In your application, we encourage you to remove personal information such as: photographs, marital status, number of children, religion, gender, residential postal code, university graduation date, past medical or parental leave(s) taken, nationality (instead, please state if you are legally eligible to work in the job region/country), university name (instead, please state any degrees obtained and the study major)

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