Product Design Manager

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

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 a Product Design Manager at Ecovadis, you’ll partner with product management, product development, and engineering to ensure a smooth product development process and drive better experience. You’ll also ensure consistent and high-quality work while enabling the growth of your team and the evolution of design as a discipline within EcoVadis. 

You will:

• Vision and direction: Contribute to product direction conversations, and stay involved in the strategy and vision of the areas you’re assigned;
• Planning: Work with product partners to assess upcoming work requests, gaining enough clarity to translate expectations into applicable tasks and attainable goals. Align the teams' work to product priorities, and plan XD efforts for upcoming Frostbite releases;
• Strategy: Proactively identify strategic user experience opportunities and define roadmaps by balancing asks with team capacity, and providing visibility and insights for the design team and partners;
• Collaboration: Improve the quality of collaboration between the design, product and development teams by defining operational best practices and recommending process improvements;
• Design quality: Participate actively in design syncs by reviewing deliverables that your team creates, and provide feedback to assess problem-solution fit and high-quality output. Ensure that the team produces high-quality designs based on existing design principles, patterns and systems;
• Usability: Help teams analyze, identify and prioritize overall user experience improvements that balance user and business value;
• Process: Set up and manage collaborative frameworks within design and cross-functionality to boost efficiency and drive experience integrity;
• 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

• Track record working within product teams at a leadership level;
• Strong understanding of design principles - UX patterns and information architecture;
• Experience managing concurrent design projects with diverse teams;
• Passion for creating visually pleasing and intuitive user experiences;
• Knowledgeable across human-centred 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.

Additional Information

Location: Warsaw
Start date: ASAP

Everyone at EcoVadis contributes to a culture of trust, respect and empowerment. Our growing team in Poland is full of talented professionals from various sectors who all share a desire to make an impact. 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.

Benefits:

• Support with all the necessary office and IT equipment
• Optional (fully covered or co-financed) health care and life insurance
• Multisport card and wellness allowance
• Multicafeteria Lunch card
• Annual performance bonus
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid/ full remote work
• Remote work from abroad policy
• Internet and Electricity bill allowance
• CSR activities
• Modern, pet-friendly office in the city center (next to Rondo ONZ)
• Community service day when volunteering

Our hiring team looks forward to reviewing your CV, in English, 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, including the provision of interview questions, 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).