Senior Product Designer

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. 

Job Description

As a Product Design Manager at EcoVadis, you’ll play a key role in shaping meaningful user experiences by collaborating closely with product, engineering, and development teams. You’ll help drive a seamless product development process that emphasises design excellence, cross-team alignment, and scalable solutions. In this role, you'll champion high-quality, consistent design outcomes while mentoring your team and advancing the design practice within EcoVadis.

● Design Leadership

• Lead and mentor a team of product designers, providing guidance, support, and feedback to elevate the quality of design across products
• Champion a user-centered design approach, ensuring the team creates intuitive, accessible, and impactful user experiences
• Establish and maintain a high design standard through critique sessions, design reviews, and clear feedback loops

● Strategic Influence

• Collaborate with product, engineering, marketing, and senior stakeholders to align design vision with business goals
• Contribute to product strategy by identifying user needs, opportunities, and innovative design solutions
• Drive design thinking and research practices throughout the product lifecycle

● Team Management & Development

• Hire, onboard, and develop a high-performing, diverse design team
• Set individual goals, conduct performance reviews, and facilitate career growth through coaching and mentorship ○ Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and design team culture

● Process Optimisation

• Define and evolve design processes and workfl ows that support scalability and effi ciency without sacrificing quality
• Implement systems for consistent design quality, such as guidelines, and shared resources
• Encourage experimentation while ensuring designs are delivered on time and aligned with product timelines

● Cross-functional Collaboration

• Act as a key liaison between design, product, engineering, and other departments to ensure cohesive product experiences
• Translate complex problems into elegant design solutions, supported by data and user insights
• Advocate for design as a strategic business function within the organisation

● Thought Leadership

Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging tools, and UX best practices ○ Represent the design function in leadership forums, contributing to broader company vision and culture

Qualifications

● Design Expertise

• 5-8+ years of professional experience in product design, UX/UI, or interaction design, with a strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design work
• Strong foundation in UX principles, visual design, information architecture, and interaction design
• Comfortable working through ambiguity, taking ownership of identifying problems and creating solutions
• Have a "validate first and perfect later" mentality committed to continuous development and learning

● User Research & Data

• Proficient in conducting and applying insights from user research and usability testing
• Experience using research tools like Maze, Lookback, UserTesting, Optimal Workshop, or in-house testing methods  
• Comfortable working with product metrics and behavioral analytics to inform design decisions

● Collaboration & Communication

• Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional partners in product management, engineering, and data
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills - able to articulate design rationale clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfortable facilitating workshops, design sprints, and stakeholder presentations

● Strategic Thinking

• Ability to think at a systems level and connect the dots across user journeys, business goals, and technical constraints
• Experience working in agile or lean environments, contributing to product strategy and roadmap discussions
• Track record of identifying design opportunities that enhance the product and create business value

● Leadership & Influence

• Proven ability to mentor designers, give and receive feedback, and help foster a collaborative team environment
• Comfortable working through ambiguity, taking ownership of identifying problems and creating solutions; ○ Demonstrated ownership of complex projects and ability to drive them to completion with minimal oversight ○ Advocacy for inclusive, accessible, and ethical design practices

Additional Information

Location: Warsaw - Hybrid (4 days a month)
Start date: ASAP
Contract of Employment

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
• Flexible working hours
• Wellness allowance for mental and physical wellbeing
• Access to professional mental health support
• Referral bonus policy
• Learning and development 
• Sustainability events and community involvement
• Peer recognition program
• Employee-led resource groups
• Optional (fully covered or co-financed) health care and life insurance
• Multisport card
• Multikafeteria
• Lunch card
• Hybrid work organization
• Remote work from abroad policy
• Internet and Electricity bill allowance
• Additional day for community service when volunteering

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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).