🧭 Product design leadership: You have managed managers, coached senior designers, and built design teams that improve both craft and business outcomes, including making hard performance calls when needed
🧩 Complex product systems experience: You have led design across complex or developer-facing products where UX quality depends on deep product understanding
🎨 Craft authority: You are a quality bar, not just someone who appreciates quality. You can identify great work, explain why it's great, and hold the line on standards even when it's uncomfortable
📣 Strategic influence, not just strategic thinking: You have made design a co-equal in product conversations, not a downstream function. You know how to bring people with you, create debate, and drive decisions
🔀 Structured problem-solving under ambiguity: You find your way into unclear problems and create a plan. You don't just ask good questions, you answer them. You move forward when there's no map
🤖 AI-era product judgment: You understand the AI, automation, or adjacent tooling landscape and can turn emerging patterns into usable, trustworthy product experiences
🔍 Research literacy: You know how to build research into product development so insight becomes part of how teams make decisions, not a separate artifact
📊 Data-informed decision making: You use product analytics, research, and customer evidence to guide decisions instead of relying on taste or opinion alone
🧱 Org design and performance management: You can design team structures, define career paths, raise expectations, and handle difficult performance conversations with clarity
🌱 Open-source or community product experience: You have worked on open-source, fair-code, community-led, or builder-driven products and understand what it means to design for a community that has strong opinions
💻 Design engineering credibility: You have enough front-end or design engineering fluency to partner deeply on design system adoption and implementation quality
🌍 Remote-first operating systems: You have built design rituals, critique, QA, and collaboration practices that work across distributed teams and time zones
🚀 Growth surface experience: You have worked on activation, onboarding, templates, time-to-value, or product-led growth surfaces
⬆️ Rising Design Manager profile: We are open to someone who has been an exceptional Design Manager and is ready for their first Head-level role, if the fundamentals are exceptional
We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work
Our company language is English
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