Group Product Designer

Summary

Join Pennylane as a Group Product Designer and lead a team of 5 designers within the Bookkeeping group. You will be responsible for creating a positive work environment, conducting user research, collaborating with product managers and engineers, overseeing design work, and fostering a collaborative team culture. This role requires experience managing designers of all seniority levels, proven product design experience in a B2B/SaaS context, fluency in French and English, and strong communication and collaboration skills. Pennylane offers remote work options across Europe, company shares, workspace budget, wellness benefits, language learning resources, Apple equipment, and a vibrant social community. Additional benefits for France-based employees include extra vacation days, lunch credits, and comprehensive healthcare.

Requirements

• Native level in French and fluency in English is required for effective communication and collaboration
• You have experience managing and growing designers of all seniority levels
• You demonstrate solid experience in product design, specifically in a B2B / SaaS context
• You thrive on uncovering and solving complex problems and are not afraid to dive in complex topics (in our case, accounting)
• You excel at fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and engaging design team culture
• You are able to communicate effectively and smoothly with all types of stakeholders. You demonstrate great collaboration skills with PM and Engineering counterparts
• You strive to understand both the users and the business, and are able to contribute meaningfully to the product strategy on your scope

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 5 designers: create a great working environment for your team, encourage synergies, remove blockers as they arise, coach and grow the talents in your team, including performance management and setting clear and engaging objectives
• Build and refine your knowledge of our users: engage in user research to gain insights into user behaviours, needs, and pain points, and translate those findings into design direction and input for the team
• Lead your group with your PM and Tech counterparts: co-create the product vision, ensure a consistent and smooth user experience across squads, solve staffing challenges, align with adjacent scopes and beyond, solve dependencies…
• Oversee and challenge design work in your scope: participate in design critiques and provide constructive feedback to improve the quality and effectiveness of design solutions, within the Product Design team, squad and the business
• Play a key role in our Product Design team: foster an inclusive, safe and collaborative environment, initiate and lead projects that improve our team’s capabilities and workflows, create a culture of knowledge sharing, spread good practices etc

Benefits

• You'll be able to work remotely from anywhere in Europe, as long as your contract allows you to
• You'll get company shares to enjoy a piece of the success story you're building with us
• You’ll have a budget to turn your home into a more comfortable workspace, as well as a monthly allowance to work from a co-working space whenever you feel like it
• Through our partner Gymlib, you’ll have access to 8000 fitness spaces in Europe and more than 300 activities related to wellness🤔
• You’ll have access to Busuu to perfect your english or your french
• You’ll get the latest Apple equipment
• You’ll be part of a vibrant social community : we do lots of sports together (Foot, running, climbing...), we love to hang out and have a drink together (Thursday afterwork drinks on our rooftop is a usual thing. Twice-a-year we do company seminars, last time we went to enjoy the late summer in Provence - and it was amazing !)
• You’ll be able to work fully from your home or any co-working space in France, or from our wonderful office in the center of Paris
• You’ll get 10 additional days off (to the 25 standard ones) to rest and do what you love each year
• You’ll have lunch credits (Swile card) to buy your favorite food every day
• You’ll have a great healthcare cover (Alan Blue) to take care of yourself and your family