Product Design Manager

Summary

Join Pennylane, a rapidly growing Fintech company, and become their new Product Design Manager. Lead and mentor a team of 5 product designers, focusing on scaling and development. Collaborate with cross-functional partners and senior stakeholders to identify and drive strategic UX opportunities. Orchestrate user research to understand user needs and translate findings into actionable insights. Measure the impact of design on business performance and contribute expertise to the company. Shape and establish design processes, ensuring speed, quality, and consistency. Partner with design ops teams and work closely with other designers, engineers, and product managers. This role requires strong leadership skills, experience working with C-level executives, and the ability to simplify complex issues for non-expert audiences. Pennylane offers a competitive compensation package, remote work options within Europe, and various other benefits.

Requirements

• Fluency in French and proficiency in English is required
• You have a strong track record of leading product design teams, better if in B2B organisations
• You have an excellent eye for design and are capable to assist the team with ideas and creative inputs
• You excel at aligning team decisions with the overall vision, JTBD, and design guidelines
• You enjoy discovering and solving complex problems through data and insights
• You have experience fostering an inclusive, open, and engaged design team culture
• You are comfortable communicating future design directions with senior stakeholders, including founders and inspiring positive action within your team
• You have a a collaborative approach. You have experience working closely with other Designers, Engineers and Product Managers. You value feedback and brainstorming ideas
• Significant experience collaborating with senior executives (C-level, Executive Committee, etc.)
• Ability to simplify, synthesize, and translate complex issues for non-expert audiences
• Comfortable presenting and defending your decisions to senior stakeholders
• Skilled at finding the right balance in meetings—knowing when to lead, when to listen, and how to adapt your approach to the context
• To speak English (level is assessed and appreciated according to the department you’re applying to)
• To be energized by an ever-shifting work environment
• To be highly collaborative (within your team or other stakeholders)
• Sufficiently experienced to prioritize business-led actions on your day to day activity

Responsibilities

• Scale and level-up your team of 5 product designers. You will partner closely with other design leaders, cross-functional partners, and HR partners to hire, develop and retain design talent in alignment with the growth trajectory of our organisation
• Identify strategic UX opportunities that will help our users become more productive and drive these forward with your product and engineering peers at track level
• Orchestrate user research with product leads and your team to understand the behaviour, needs and wants for our most important accounting partners and convert it into actionable insights
• Skilled at measuring the effect of design on business performance and overseeing critical strategic directions
• Continuously contribute expertise back to the business in the form of insights and best practices for our users
• Help your team balance speed, quality, and design consistency, always focusing on JBTD and business goals
• Shaping and establishing design processes. By driving design best practices, you'll enable more significant impact and efficiency across the team
• Experienced in partnering with design ops teams

Benefits

• You'll be able to work remotely from your country of residence, as long as it is in Europe and within a maximum time difference of two hours from the CET time zone
• Wherever you are based, you will get 25 vacations days paid by Pennylane
• You’ll have a competitive compensation package
• 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 coworking 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
• We are committed to regularly coming together for company events such as Tech Days (which bring remote Pennylaners together every 3 months) or our annual company seminar, fostering significant moments of cohesion for everyone
• If you are based in France, you will have a French contract following French regulation on top of the additional perks : 6 to 12 RTT, 5 weeks PTOs, lunch credits (Swile), Alan Blue healthcare cover and regular events in cities where Pennylaners are mostly presents (Lyon, Bordeaux, Nantes…)