Head of Product Design

We're looking for a highly hands-on and influential Head of Product Design to join our team in Berlin. This pivotal role goes beyond execution; you'll lead by example, deeply owning end-to-end product experiences, directly shaping our design strategy, and significantly elevating the overall quality and impact of our user-centric products.

What you'll do

• Lead End-to-End Product Design: Drive the entire design process from discovery and ideation through to detailed implementation, ensuring a relentless focus on quality, speed, and measurable impact.
• Coach & Elevate Design Quality: Act as a hands-on leader, directly coaching and mentoring a team of designers to continuously raise the bar for visual and interaction design, setting new standards across the product experience.
• Drive Strategic Design Vision: Collaborate intensely with Product, Engineering, and Data Science to align design with ambitious business goals, drawing on strong product and visual instincts and understanding competitor landscapes to shape a clear, impactful strategy.
• Deliver Measurable Impact: Champion a data-driven approach, conducting user research and analyzing performance metrics to directly inform design decisions that move key business metrics for users and advertisers.
• Own & Enhance the Experience: Proactively identify opportunities for improvement across our products, taking full ownership to redesign, refine, and implement solutions that enhance usability, emotional connection, and overall user satisfaction.

What you'll need

• Extensive experience (typically 7+ years) in end-to-end product design, with a strong portfolio showcasing impactful UI/UX work across mobile-first products.
• Exceptional visual and interaction design skills, demonstrating a meticulous eye for detail, hierarchy, and accessibility, coupled with a deep care for quality and polish.
• Proven ability to lead by example, actively coach designers, and inspire cross-functional teams towards design excellence and high-quality outcomes.
• Strong product instinct and strategic thinking, enabling you to form clear design strategies that align with business drivers, user needs, and market opportunities.
• A highly data-driven mindset, with experience using research and analytics to inform decisions, measure success, and understand what truly moves the needle.

Nice to have

• Highly hands-on and quality-obsessed: you naturally dive into the details and actively fix elements that don't look or feel right.
• Impact-driven and business-minded: passionate about seeing your work directly move real metrics and deeply curious about how design impacts growth, users, and advertisers.
• Proactive and emotionally intelligent: you take full ownership, proactively seeking out improvements, and consistently think about how users feel.

What they offer

• Equity in Almedia for all Berlin-based employees.
• Modern, fully-stocked central Berlin office built for collaboration.
• Transport subsidy, breakfasts and lunches.
• Language learning and Urban Sports Club membership.